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ASP.NET MVC v. Web Forms Debate - My View

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Mikesdotnetting 24 days, 1 hour, 55 minutes ago

ASP.NET MVC v. Web Forms Debate - My View It seems that the whole world (and Margate) is having its say on which is better - MVC or Web Forms. Scott Guthrie posted his views on technical debates in general, and then contributed his thoughts on MVC v. Web Forms. Ian Cooper has an interesting contribution to make to the debate too. Rob Conery (formerly of Microsoft) posted probably the most linked to opinion on the matter. (There - I've just added another link...) A lot of other blog posts around s... (more)

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tags: asp net, asp net mvc, ASPNET, ASPNETMVC

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ASP.NET MVC is not all about Linq to SQL

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ASP.NET MVC is not all about Linq to SQL Pretty much every sample application that illustrates ASP.NET MVC uses Linq To SQL or the Entity Framework as the data access method. I've seen a number of questions posted to the forums at www.asp.net asking if there are any alternatives, and indeed there are. This article will look at using plain ADO.NET within a data access layer to provide dynamic content to a typical small CRUD application. For the purposes of this excercise, I shall be ... (more)

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tags: asp net, asp net mvc, ASPNETMVC, MVC

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Using gacutil.exe and Reflection to generate the Exceptions Cheat Sheet

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Mikesdotnetting 36 days, 16 hours, 38 minutes ago

Using gacutil.exe and Reflection to generate the Exceptions Cheat Sheet The most recent addition to my Cheat Sheets features details of all the Exceptions that can be found in the most commonly used assemblies within ASP.NET development. Compiling this information was an interesting challenge. I could have simply copy-pasted from MSDN, but that would have been extremely tedious. Instead, I ended up with a blend of Linq to XML, Reflection, a dash of Regex and the Global Assembly Cache Tool - gacut... (more)

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Cheat Sheet - .NET Framework Exceptions

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Cheat Sheet - .NET Framework Exceptions Here's a list of Exceptions that can be found in the assemblies which are most commonly used in ASP.NET development. Ideally, you should be as specific as possible when catching or throwing Exceptions. The more specific you are, the less work the CLR has to do in locating the appropriate catch block, and the more informative your error messages are, which should help speed up identifying the source of any problems. A forthcoming article wil... (more)

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Simple task Scheduling using Global.asax

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Mikesdotnetting 47 days, 1 hour, 41 minutes ago

Simple task Scheduling using Global.asax A frequent requirement for ASP.NET developers is to schedule tasks at regular intervals. This can include site maintenance tasks, like cleaning up old files, emailing newsletters on a schedule etc. This article examines one easy option for managing tasks like these without having to configure external tools, and discusses a couple of alternatives. If you have access to the web server itself, you will probably use WMI to schedule tasks (http:/... (more)

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tags: asp net, ASPNET

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Get The Drop On ASP.NET MVC DropDownLists

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Get The Drop On ASP.NET MVC DropDownLists DropDownLists in ASP.NET MVC seem to cause a fair amount of confusion to developers fresh from Web Forms World. This article looks to provide you with all (well, most) of what you need to know to get your DropDownLists working in ASP.NET MVC. DropDownList, ComboBox, call it what you like, but it always renders as an html select element. It has an opening tag. In between, each "ListItem" is housed within an tag. Optionally, they may be subd... (more)

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ASP.NET MVC - Prevent Image Leeching with a Custom RouteHandler

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Mikesdotnetting 83 days, 1 hour, 35 minutes ago

ASP.NET MVC - Prevent Image Leeching with a Custom RouteHandler Have you ever noticed an unusually high number of requests in your web server log files for image files? It may well be that someone is linking to your images from their own site, and basically stealing your bandwidth. Here's how to implement a custom RouteHandler within an ASP.NET MVC application to prevent people leeching your images. To begin with, I'll start by reviewing the flow of execution when a request comes ... (more)

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Reading the ProviderUserKey when using the SqlMembershipProvider

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Reading the ProviderUserKey when using the SqlMembershipProvider

The ProviderUserKey gives access to a unique identifier for each of the members in your membership data store. If you're doing a large amount of lookup's or want to cross link to another table you will find this technique will give you better performance than using the UserName property. (more)

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tags: .NET, article, ASP.NET, Membership, MSDN

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ASP.NET MVC Uploading and Downloading Files

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Mikesdotnetting 87 days, 1 hour, 30 minutes ago

ASP.NET MVC Uploading and Downloading Files If you come to ASP.NET MVC from a purely ASP.NET Web Forms background, one of the first things you are likely to notice is that all those nice easy Server Controls have disappeared. One of those is the FileUpload, and its absence seems to cause a few problems. This article looks at how to upload files to the server in an MVC world, and how to get them back from the server to the user again. In Web Forms, when you drag a FilUpload control... (more)

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Storing Files and Images in Access with ASP.NET

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Mikesdotnetting 102 days, 3 hours, 8 minutes ago

Storing Files and Images in Access with ASP.NET Should you store files and images in the database or the filesystem in an ASP.NET application? With SQL Server this is a dilemma, with both approaches having their pros and cons. When it comes to Access, the decision is much easier to make. Because an Access database is restricted to 2Gb, it makes more sense to store files in the file system. However, sometimes, you may not have the choice. If you have to use the database, here's how. ... (more)

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tags: ASP.NET, MS Access

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Simple File Download Protection with ASP.NET

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Simple File Download Protection with ASP.NET When it comes to protecting files from unauthorised downloading, the vast majority of articles offer solutions that involve mapping common file types (.pdf, .txt, .doc etc) to ASP.NET within Internet Information Services. However, often in a shared hosting environment, you don't have access to IIS and the hosting company will not agree to providing such mappings for you, so what do you do? Let's start by examining the problem is a litt... (more)

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What ASP.NET Can And Can't Do

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Mikesdotnetting 115 days, 1 hour, 40 minutes ago

What ASP.NET Can And Can't Do If you are new to web development and choose ASP.NET Web Forms as your starting point, you may be forgiven for not understanding how ASP.NET works, and what its role is. This article covers the basics which should help you discover your limits. ASP.NET Web Forms is a great paradigm in my view, but it has a lot to answer for. One of the main things it encourages is Windows Forms developers to come to the dark side of web application development. Web app... (more)

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Displaying Google Analytics Data in ASP.NET

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Mikesdotnetting 143 days, 1 hour, 36 minutes ago

Displaying Google Analytics Data in ASP.NET If you have a Google Analytics account, you can use the Data Export API provided by Google to access your visitor stats, and retrieve them for use elsewhere. Here's how to display some stats in ASP.NET. When I first put this site together, it was in a bit of a rush. I decided to keep a count of the number of visits for each article, but did it very simply. All I did was increment a database field called Views by one each time a page was re... (more)

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tags: ASP.NET, Google Analytics

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Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control with ASP.MET MVC

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Mikesdotnetting 159 days, 2 hours, 13 minutes ago

Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control with ASP.MET MVC As you delve more into ASP.NET MVC you start to come across a whole new way of doing things that Web Forms development didn't really expose you to. Inversion of Control (IoC) and Dependency Injection (DI) are two phrases that crop up a lot in the MVC space. So what are they all about? And should you care? I should start by stating the IoC and DI are not unique to ASP.NET MVC. They have been around a long time. It's just ... (more)

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tags: ASP .NET, ASPNETMVC, Dependecy Injection, Inversion of control, IoC, StructureMap

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Parameterized IN clauses with ADO.NET and LINQ

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Mikesdotnetting 171 days, 2 hours, 37 minutes ago

Parameterized IN clauses with ADO.NET and LINQ Since my article on using parameters for Preventing SQL Injection In ASP.NET, I have had a few emails asking how to do the same with an IN clause expression. In this entry, I explore a couple of ways to do this. Just in case you don't know, IN() takes a subquery or expression. The expression is a comma-separated list of values, so the following SQL:SELECT * FROM Products WHERE CategoryID IN (1,4,8) will return all Products that have a... (more)

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tags: ADO.NET, Linq, sql IN, SQL Injection

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Microsoft Chart Controls to PDF with iTextSharp and ASP.NET MVC

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Mikesdotnetting 184 days, 2 hours, 49 minutes ago

Microsoft Chart Controls to PDF with iTextSharp and ASP.NET MVC If you are developing a business application using ASP.NET MVC, and need to produce some kind of dashboard-style reporting, the Chart Controls from Microsoft are a good place to start. Having a summary in some form of document, say a PDF is also a common requirement. This article introduces you to satisfying both needs. A Senior executive came rushing out of his office and shouted at his underlings: "Has anyone seen my... (more)

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tags: ASPNETMVC, Chart Controls, iTextSharp

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jQuery Star Rating with ASP.NET MVC

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jQuery Star Rating with ASP.NET MVC There are a number of jQuery star rating plugins to choose from. All have their pros and cons. For this site, I decided to implement the one from FyneWorks because it allows for split stars. Here's how I did it. The star rating system allows people to easily provide feedback on a blog item if they don't feel like submitting a comment. The rating plugin that I chose can be configured to allow any score to be applied, although I opted to allow peop... (more)

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tags: Ajax, ASPNETMVC, jQuery

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Preventing SQL Injection in ASP.NET

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Mikesdotnetting 211 days, 17 hours, 5 minutes ago

I, and many other contributors to the forums at www.asp.net find examples of code posted on a daily basis that are vulnerable to SQL Injection attacks. We continue to exhort beginners (and some more experienced programmers) to code against them. This article examines just how serious a flaw vulnerable coding can be, and what you should do about it. (more)

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tags: ADO.NET, ASP.NET, SQL Injection

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ASP.NET MVC - Battle of the Books

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ASP.NET MVC - Battle of the Books There's always a splurge of new books that come out around the RTM of any new ASP.NET related technology. Authors all over the place are burning the midnight oil, cursing the changes from one CTP to the next, through to Betas and hoping against hope that the Release Candidates and final RTMs aren't stuffed with "breaking changes" which inevitably mean total rewrites of whole sections or chapters in their draft. And then the race between the publishers is on, as e... (more)

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tags: ASP .NET MVC Framework, ASPNETMVC

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Extreme ASP.NET: Guiding Principles For Your ASP.NET MVC Applications

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Extreme ASP.NET: Guiding Principles For Your ASP.NET MVC Applications

In this column, the author lays out some guiding principles that you should follow when working with the ASP.NET MVC framework. (more)

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tags: ASPNETMVC, MSDN, MSDN Magazine

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ASP.NET MVC v. Web Forms Debate - My View

ASP.NET MVC is not all about Linq to SQL

Using gacutil.exe and Reflection to generate the Exceptions Cheat Sheet

Cheat Sheet - .NET Framework Exceptions

Simple task Scheduling using Global.asax

Get The Drop On ASP.NET MVC DropDownLists

ASP.NET MVC - Prevent Image Leeching with a Custom RouteHandler

Reading the ProviderUserKey when using the SqlMembershipProvider

ASP.NET MVC Uploading and Downloading Files

Storing Files and Images in Access with ASP.NET

Simple File Download Protection with ASP.NET

What ASP.NET Can And Can't Do

Displaying Google Analytics Data in ASP.NET

Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control with ASP.MET MVC

Parameterized IN clauses with ADO.NET and LINQ

Microsoft Chart Controls to PDF with iTextSharp and ASP.NET MVC

jQuery Star Rating with ASP.NET MVC

Preventing SQL Injection in ASP.NET

ASP.NET MVC - Battle of the Books

Extreme ASP.NET: Guiding Principles For Your ASP.NET MVC Applications

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