Stephen Walther on ASP.NET MVC

In this series of blog entries, I build an entire ASP.NET MVC application from start to finish. In this entry, I integrate the Silverlight Media Player into the Family Videos MVC application so I can play videos.

In this tip, Stephen Walther warns you to avoid making a mistake that can result in private data being displayed to unauthorized users.

Improve the performance of ASP.NET MVC applications by taking advantage of the Velocity distributed cache. In this tip, I also explain how you can use Velocity as a distributed session state provider.

In this tip, Stephen Walther demonstrate how you can create new LINQ to SQL extension methods that enable you to dramatically reduce the amount of code that you are required to write for typical data access scenarios.

Take Model-View-Controller as an example. It's often referred to as a pattern, but I don't find it terribly useful to think of it as a pattern because it contains quite a few different ideas. Different people reading about MVC in different places take different ideas from it and describe these as 'MVC'. If this doesn't cause enough confusion you then get the effect of misunderstandings of MVC that develop through a system of Chinese whispers. – Martin Fowler, GUI Architectures (http://www.martinfowler.com/eaaDev/uiArchs.html)

In this tip, Stephen Walther demonstrates how you can create an auto-complete text field in an MVC view by taking advantage of the Ajax Control Toolkit. He explains how you can create a custom Ajax Helper that renders the necessary JavaScript.

In this tip, Stephen Walther demonstrates how you can create a JavaScript popup calendar (date picker) that works within an ASP.NET MVC view. The calendar is created with the AJAX Control Toolkit.

15 new ASP.NET MVC videos were just published at the http://www.ASP.net/mvc website. The first 10 videos are basic tutorials on the ASP.NET MVC framework. If you haven’t had a chance to play with ASP.NET MVC yet, these tutorials are a great introduction.