MVC Tips and Tricks from WMDoDN 08

Over the next week or so I plan to have individual blog posts about my “favorite” demos in this presentation, but I wanted to get the PowerPoint stack and code samples out there ASAP. I will definitely blog in detail about the SEOHelper, Blueprint CSS additions, jQuery Ajax (3 ways), and the MasterPage/BaseController/BaseViewData pieces.

• Powerpoint Deck {missing-file:mvc2.zip}
• Code Samples {missing-file:dodnspeaker2r.zip}

Where to get the current MVC builds

• The sample code uses the 0416 Interim Source Code Release bits

Blog posts, forums, etc. where many of these ideas/solutions came from

• PagedList<T> (link is no longer active) routes for LINQ to SQL data – Rob Conery
• Model-based Client-side Validation for ASP.NET MVC – Steve Sanderson
• Password Generator – Chris @ SloppyCode
• MasterPageBugFix – Michael Jenkinson’s solution – for BaseViewData inheritance
• Scott Gu’s Blog
• Scott Hanselman

Projects, resources, etc. where many of the libraries came from

• Blueprint CSS
• jQuery
• jQuery UI
• tablesorter

• clueTip (link is no longer active)

• LiveValidation (js framework for client-side validator)
• Castle Project – Validation libraries (and much more, we used the validation)
• Asirra – “cat” CAPTCHA from Microsoft Research
• FCKEditor – HTML editor for textareas
• log4net – for the ActiveFilter for logging
• MVCContrib