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  • Rethinking Models in MVC

    Jon Galloway is researching dynamic ASP.NET MVC 3 models using Mono’s Compiler as a Service. Meanwhile Karsten Januszewski is looking into deserialized JSON in lieu of statically typed models.

  • MVC Scaffolding Provides configurable Code Generation for ASP.NET MVC

    Steve Sanderson recently introduced MVC Scaffolding, a customizable code generation tool for ASP.NET MVC 3. MVC Scaffolding uses a simple command-line interface to automatically generate code based on templates. Standard templates allow for automated generation of many common elements, including Views, Actions, and Unit Test stubs.

  • ASP.NET MVC 3 Embraces Dynamic Typing

    Nearly a decade ago Microsoft gambled big on WebForms and static typing. With the dial cranked all the way over to full encapsulation, each page could almost be treated as its own program. In the intervening years the industry has largely gone in the other direction, favoring separation of concerns over encapsulation and late binding over early binding. Now Microsoft is doing the same.

  • ASP.NET MVC 3 Go-Live License

    Microsoft’s ASP.NET team has taken the Agile philosophy of Deploy Early, Deploy Often to heart. Close on the heels of ASP.NET MVC 2, version 3 beta has already been approved for production use. With a whole host of promising new features including the Razor syntax, this will be a hard release to ignore.

  • Four View Engines for ASP.NET MVC

    With last week’s introduction of Razor, there are now four major view engine for ASP.NET MVC. The others are Spark, NHaml, and the traditional ASPX file templates. This article introduces the four engines with a special focus on the new Razor engine.

  • ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview Updated

    Microsoft has released a new preview for ASP.NET MVC 2. Preview 2 builds on the features of Preview 1, adding client-side validation, streamlined support of Areas, and abstractions of Data Annotations validation and metadata providers.

  • A Preview of Version 2 of ASP.NET MVC

    Microsoft has released the first preview for their ASP.NET MVC v2. Highlights include a new plugable validation model, sub-projects for dividing up large websites, and an enhanced templating model.

  • Five Questions with Eric Hexter and Jeffery Palermo

    Eric Hexter and Jeffery Palermo are the founders of MVC Contrib, an open source extension to Microsoft's ASP.NET MVC. With MVC Contrib getting ready for its first first production-grade release, we asked them to take a moment to reflect on the project and ASP.NET MVC as a whole.

  • ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate

    Microsoft has published RC1 of ASP.NET MVC 1.0. It is expected to be the last public release before the final 1.0 release planned for February. MVC 1.0 RC1 makes significant Visual Studio tooling improvements, includes new run-time enhancements, and fixes numerous bug from the beta.

  • JRuby GUI MVC Framework Monkeybars Goes 1.0

    There are many JRuby libraries on top of Java GUI toolkits. Monkeybars is a JRuby MVC framework for building GUI applications, and it's now available in version 1.0. We talked to James Britt about Monkeybars.

  • Chad Myers and Jeremy Miller: Opinions for ASP.NET MVC Developers

    ASP.NET MVC is still very much a work in progress and there is still plenty of room for determining the best way to use it or even ways to change it before the final 1.0 release. Chad Myers and Jeremy Miller present some rather stringent guidelines based on their experience with Ruby on Rails.

  • Web Frameworks, MVC, and ASP.NET

    After nearly a year as a community tech preview, Microsoft has released the first true beta of the ASP.NET MVC framework. ASP.NET MVC is a radical departure from the WebForms technology has promoted in the past, and in the opinion of many, a return to mainstream web programming. The MVC pattern provides the cornerstone for web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails and Java's Spring Framework.

  • Article: Rationalizing the presentation tier

    Thin client paradigm characterized by web applications is a kludge that needs to be repudiated. Old compromises are no longer needed and it’s time to move the presentation tier to where it belongs. In this article, Ganesh Prasad and Peter Svensson explains how and why.

  • Pivot: Re-Inventing the Java Applet?

    Pivot is a new GUI toolkit meant to compete with Flex and Silverlight, and is targeted specifically at Java applets powered by the upcoming consumer JRE.

  • Following Real-World ASP.NET MVC Projects

    The Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Framework second technology preview was released during MIX08 in March but has since released an update to their source code on April 16. This means there are many things going on with those involved in the project at Microsoft as well as those in the community. People are not creating just sample code but creating real applications now.

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