(Scott Mitchell) One of the most common tasks we face as a web developers is displaying data in a grid. In its simplest incarnation, a grid merely displays information about a set of records – the orders placed by a particular customer, perhaps; however, most grids offer features like sorting, pagin
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ASP.NET MVC 3: Razor’s @: and syntax
(Scott Guthrie) In today’s post I’m going to discuss two useful syntactical features of the new Razor view-engine – the @: and syntax support.
Introduction to Memory Mapped Files
(Vipul Patel) The .NET framework provides APIs for file editing, however the APIs offered in versions prior to .NET framework 4.0 did not scale well for working with extremely large files.
Update on ASP.NET MVC 3 RC2 (and a workaround for a bug in it)
(Scott Guthrie) Last week we published the RC2 build of ASP.NET MVC 3. I blogged a bunch of details about it here.
Displaying a Character Counter for Multiline Textboxes
(Bipin Joshi) Many Textbox fields restrict the number of characters entered in them for the sake of business validation. With single line textboxes it is just a matter of setting the MaxLength property.
ASP.NET 4 Unleashed: An Interview with Kevin Hoffman and Nate Dudek
(Eric Vogel, Nate Dudek and Kevin Hoffman) ASP.NET has been around since January of 2002 and has since improved drastically with each release. With each release comes a new set of controls, new server and client functionality, and sometimes even new paradigms that enable you as a developer to be mor
Using ASP.NET MVC and jQuery to create confirmation prompts
(Stuart Leeks) Having coded up samples several times showing how to add confirmation prompts to links on a web page I figured I’d post it here so that I can simply grab it next time round!
Re-Using Elements with MasterPages in MVC2
(Peter Hardy) Most sites use a similar layout – logo at the top, menu underneath, footer at the bottom. Whist the content of each page is different the logo, menu and footer stay the same. We could load the data for these elements in each controller action but this would lead to repeated code. Inste
Abstract to Privileges rather than to Roles in ASP.NET Applications
(Steven Smith) If you’ve written much ASP.NET code since 2005, you’ve probably used the built-in role provider, or rolled your own, and written code that checks whether the current user belongs to a particular role. For instance, for an article site like ASPAlliance.com, you might choose to show an
Announcing ASP.NET MVC 3 (Release Candidate 2)
(Scott Guthrie) Earlier today the ASP.NET team shipped the final release candidate (RC2) for ASP.NET MVC 3. You can download and install it here.
