How do I handle page flow in MVC (particularly asp.net)
If you had to provide a wizard like form entry experience in mvc how would you abstract the page flow? Thanks ...
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What's the best way to implement field validation using ASP.NET MVC?
I am building a public website using ASP.NET, as part of the deliverable I need to do an Admin Site for data entry of the stuff shown in the public site, I was wondering what techniques or procedures are people using to validate entries using ASP.NET MVC. ...
Best way to bind Windows Forms properties to ApplicationSettings in C#?
In a desktop application needing some serious refactoring, I have several chunks of code that look like this: private void LoadSettings() { WindowState = Properties.Settings.Default.WindowState; Location = Properties.Settings.Default.WindowLocation; ... } private void SaveSettings() { Properties.Settings.Default.WindowS...
Using ASP.NET MVC, how to best avoid writing both the Add View and Edit View?
The Add view and the Edit view are often incredibly similar that it is unwarranted to write 2 views. As the app evolves you would be making the same changes to both. However, there are usually subtle differences. For instance, a field might be read-only once it's been added, and if that field is a DropDownList you no longer need that Li...
Views in separate assemblies in ASP.NET MVC
I'm trying to create a webapplication where I want to be able to plug-in separate assemblies. I'm using MVC preview 4 combined with Unity for dependency injection, which I use to create the controllers from my plugin assemblies. I'm using WebForms (default aspx) as my view engine. If I want to use a view, I'm stuck on the ones that are ...
Being as DRY as possible in a Ruby on Rails App
I'm currently using the awesome attachment-fu plugin for a Rails app, but as a novice developer, I've never encountered a scenario like the one I've found myself in. Essentially, I'm using the attachment-fu plugin on two levels. The first is for user avatars in the user class. The second is to allow file attachments (PDFs, etc) in a mess...
Best practices for refactoring classic ASP?
I've got to do some significant development in a large, old, spaghetti-ridden ASP system. I've been away from ASP for a long time, focusing my energies on Rails development. One basic step I've taken is to refactor pages into subs and functions with meaningful names, so that at least it's easy to understand @ the top of the file what's ...
What are the best MVC web frameworks on the market?
I am looking for a Web Framework to move windows based applications to the web. The main requirements to WF are the following: unit tests support desktop and mobile browsers support long term viability maturity of the framework ...
What Alternatives Are There to Model-View-Controller?
While going through university and from following the development of SO, I've heard a lot about the Model-View-Controller architectural design pattern. I inadvertently used the MVC pattern even before I knew what it was, and still use it in my everyday job. From what I've seen, it's probably the most popular pattern used today. What I ha...
ASP.NET Master Pages equivalent in Java
What would be the Master Pages equivalent in the Java web development world? I've heard of Tiles, Tapestry and Velocity but don't know anything about them. Are they as easy to use as Master Pages? I want something as easy as set up one template and subsequent pages derive from the template and override content regions, similar to Ma...
MVC - where to implement form validation (server-side)?
In coding a traditional MVC application, what is the best practice for coding server-side form validations? Does the code belong in the controller, or the model layer? And why? ...
VBScript/ASP Classic
I have a couple of questions regarding VBScript and ASP Classic: 1) What is the preferred way to access an MS SQL Server database in VBScript/ASP? 2) What are best practices in regards to separating model from view from controller? 3) Any other things I should know about either VBScript or ASP? If you haven't noticed, I'm new at V...
Compact Framework - Is there an MVC framework/library available?
I've found an article on this subject by a Microsoft employee, but has anyone implemented a more robust framework for this? Is there a lightweight framework for WinForms that could be ported easily? I'd like to get up to speed fairly quickly and avoid producing a framework/library of my own to handle this when someone smarter has already...
What is MVC and what are the advantages of it?
I found What are mvp and mvc and what is the difference but it didn't really answer this question. I've recently started using MVC because it's part of the framework that myself and my work-partner are going to use. We chose it because it looked easy and separated process from display, are there advantages besides this that we don't kno...
asp.net mvc - subfolders
How does the new Microsoft asp.net mvc implementation handle partitioning your application - for example: --index.aspx --about.aspx --contact.aspx --/feature1 --/feature1/subfeature/action --/feature2/subfeature/action I guess what I am trying to say is that it seems everything has to go into the root of the views/controllers folders ...
How to represent cross-model information in MVC?
I have an application, built using MVC, that produces a view which delivers summary information across a number of models. Further to that, some calculations are performed across the different sets of data. There's no clear single model (that maps to a table at least) that seems to make sense as the starting point for this, so the vario...
Should I migrate to ASP.NET MVC?
Hello, I just listened to the StackOverflow team's 17th podcast, and they talked so highly of ASP.NET MVC that I decided to check it out. But first, I want to be sure it's worth it. I already created a base web application (for other developers to build on) for a project that's starting in a few days and wanted to know, based on your ex...
Alternative "architectural" approaches to javaScript client code?
How is your javaScript code organized? Does it follow patterns like MVC, or something else? I've been working on a side project for some time now, and the further I get, the more my webpage has turned into a full-featured application. Right now, I'm sticking with jQuery, however, the logic on the page is growing to a point where some o...
Beginning ASP.NET MVC with VB.net 2008
Where can I find a good tutorial on learning ASP.NET MVC using VB.net 2008 as the language? Most in-depth tutorials that I found in searching the web were written in C#. ...
ASP.NET MVC Route Help, 2 routes, 1 with a category url structure and the other for content page
Hi, I need some help with ASP.NET MVC routes. I need to create 2 routes for a cms type application. One route will be for category level URLS, and the other route will be for the actual page content. categories, always ends in a '/' www.example.com/category/ www.example.com/category/subcategory/ www.example.com/category/subcateg...