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• Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC 2 – Part 3: Custom DataAnnotation ValidationAttributes

  8 March 2010 - 11:55 PM / by Dominic Pettifer. 0 Comments for Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC 2 – Part 3: Custom DataAnnotation ValidationAttributes.

  Technical Article - Part 3 in a series on Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC shows how to inject dependencies into custom ValidationAttributes, used to implement validation using the DataAnnotations framework. Have you ever needed to hit a database when validating a ViewModel/form submit, and wondered how to do it?

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  • ASP.NET MVC
  • IOC
  • Patterns & Practices

• Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC 2 – Part 2: ModelBinders/ViewModels

  1 March 2010 - 11:50 PM / by Dominic Pettifer. 0 Comments for Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC 2 – Part 2: ModelBinders/ViewModels.

  Technical Article - In part 2 of a series on Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC, we look at injecting dependencies into your ViewModels. This technique comes in useful for when you want to render a dropdown list of items from a database, and don’t want your controller populating the items.

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  • ASP.NET MVC
  • IOC
  • Patterns & Practices

• Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC 2 – Part 1: Controllers

  28 February 2010 - 11:30 PM / by Dominic Pettifer. 0 Comments for Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC 2 – Part 1: Controllers.

  Technical Article - In the first part of three, I show you how to perform Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC 2 using the Castle Windsor IOC (Inversion of Control) Container. In part 1 we look at injecting dependencies into your Controllers.

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  • ASP.NET MVC
  • IOC
  • Patterns & Practices

• Strongly Typed <label> elements in ASP.NET MVC 2

  19 January 2010 - 11:23 PM / by Dominic Pettifer. 0 Comments for Strongly Typed <label> elements in ASP.NET MVC 2.

  Cool C# Snippets - Generate strongly typed <label> elements in a way that is (IMHO) better than the default method built into ASP.NET MVC 2.

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  • ASP.NET MVC
  • Code Quality

• Stop IIS AppDomain Restarts When a Folder is Deleted

  9 May 2009 - 4:21 AM / by Dominic Pettifer. 3 Comments for Stop IIS AppDomain Restarts When a Folder is Deleted.

  Technical Article - I show you how to prevent IIS web server, and the ASP.NET worker process, from restarting your websites AppDomain whenever a folder is deleted (either programmatically or manually) in your web sites folder hierarchy.

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  • ASP.NET
  • IIS

• And So It Begins (part 2)

  7 May 2009 - 11:55 PM / by Dominic Pettifer. 4 Images for And So It Begins (part 2). 4 Comments for And So It Begins (part 2).

  Personal Blog - Finally, my ASP.NET MVC blog is live.

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  • Personal

• ASP.NET MVC and Clean SEO Friendly URLs

  18 March 2009 - 1:30 AM / by Dominic Pettifer. 13 Comments for ASP.NET MVC and Clean SEO Friendly URLs.

  Technical Article - I show you how to generate SEO friendly URLs in ASP.NET MVC using the actual title/name of the record or item (product/blog name etc.) instead of the ID. That way we can have nice looking URLs that look like /products/123/apple-ipod-nano-4gb instead of /products/detail/123. The trouble is by default, ASP.NET MVC Html helpers don’t always encode the URL properly. Also how do we deal with updating the title, and old broken links?

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  • ASP.NET MVC
  • SEO

• IE Browser Detection for CSS (Using Conditional Comments)

  12 March 2009 - 1:00 AM / by Dominic Pettifer. 1 Comment for IE Browser Detection for CSS (Using Conditional Comments).

  Technical Article - A simple, reliable way to perform browser detection for Internet Explorer browsers, in order to serve certain CSS or JavaScript files (or even HTML mark-up) to specific versions of IE, while ignoring other browsers. If you have to serve a certain style sheet file to a specific version of IE to steer your way around CSS browser rendering bugs, then this may come in handy.

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  • CSS
  • HTML
  • JavaScript

• Misc Updates: Twitter and ASP.NET MVC

  7 March 2009 - 11:30 AM / by Dominic Pettifer. 0 Comments for Misc Updates: Twitter and ASP.NET MVC.

  Personal Blog - Some miscellaneous updates. You can now find me on Twitter. I’m also learning ASP.NET MVC (Model, View, Controller) and in the process of converting this blog over to MVC.

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  • ASP.NET MVC
  • Personal
  • Twitter

• Add Silverlight Tracking to your Google Analytics

  28 February 2009 - 11:40 PM / by Dominic Pettifer. 1 Image for Add Silverlight Tracking to your Google Analytics. 1 Comment for Add Silverlight Tracking to your Google Analytics.

  Technical Article - Use this handy JavaScript to add Silverlight Tracking to Google Analytics, and see what percentage of your users have Silverlight installed, including which versions.

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  • Google Analytics
  • JavaScript
  • Silverlight

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