MVC

Note: Most recent update for MVC Release Candidate 3 is out. So my MVC application that I have been working on required a CAPTCHA today. The problem is that all of the solutions out there, that I could find for ASP.NET, are control based and I wanted a more MVC approach. I know I could have easily implemented one of them using the Html.RenderControl(), however I want to use a MVC approach to the CAPTCHA authentication box. So I started out with Jeff Atwood’s CAPTCHA Control made for ASP.NET 2.0 in VB.NET 2005. I then converted it to C# and modified and expanded on it for the MVC framework. The following is the result of my work. ...

Recently I have been using the ASP.NET MVC framework for a project at work. And one of the requirements was that certain data inputed in to the URL be tightly verified. I originally thought that data was verified by the type specified in the ControllerAction, however I came to find out that it wasn’t. So if you have say a page number and the user enters a letter in the URL the application just proceeds on it’s marry way. For example on the Kigg site: ...

I am really blown back about how fast and easy MVC is to develop with. I know the guys at Microsoft do a good job with their .NET coding, but I am really impressed by the forethought they put in to MVC. It builds on top of the standard ASP.NET package, but does it in such a way that makes it lean on top of the already feature-rich (read bloated) ASP.NET Page object. It really doesn’t feel like I have all that baggage anymore. ...

Recently I have been working very hard on getting a new Web 2.0 initiative off the ground. With most new initiatives I like to start out by looking for software development patterns that will help me standardize my structure as well as make the programming experience common for any new members that are brought on the team. However I recently ran in to a structural “pattern” that seems like it is pretty simple and it addresses a common problem in software development. I researched as much as possible on all the common pattern websites that I visit and even went as far as posting on ASP.NET Forums to see if anybody could help me, give it a name. If this “pattern” hasn’t been named yet I am going to be shocked. ...