Charles Vallance

I currently have a situation where I have two separate actions that rendered the same view and then on this view it has two individual forms which post to the two aforementioned controller actions. Each of the forms have their own separate ValidationSummary() calls to display their validation errors. But when I posted to either one of these actions and the validation failed, I quickly realised a short coming of the built in ValidationSummary() helper method… you see, it doesn’t have a clue about which form has the errors! Confused yet? Oddly enough, so am I. A...

Ok, after a slight push from Travis, I decided to put aside some time to live up to my promise and post an entry on how to enable extensionless requests on the new ASP.NET MVC framework using IIS 5.1 & 6. I'm starting where my last post, ASP.NET MVC on IIS 5.1 (XP Pro), left off. So if you haven't got the MVC framework working on IIS 5.1 or 6 with extensions, have a gander at my last post and make sure its all working. What we currently have (following after my last post) is links like /Home.mvc/About...

Ok, so while Scott Hanselman's MVC How-To Screencast is downloading, I thought I'd write a quick blog about getting ASP.NET MVC working on XP Pro and IIS 5.1. Although I haven't tested it, this fix should also work on IIS 6 boxes as well. When you create a default ASP.NET MVC project and use IIS 5.1 on XP Pro to serve up the pages, the default page (http://localhost/) loads up just fine but when you try and navigate to the 'About Us' page you'll get a 'The page cannot be found' 404 error. To remedy this (without going down the...

I received an early birthday present from the Microsoft crew today... they've released the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP! Yeow! You can get it here. Scott Guthrie has just blogged about the release and also has quite a few good links. Go here to get the low down from him. It was also good to see that Scott Hanselman had left a comment to say he was in the process of recording a 40 minute video show how to make a sample site using ASP.NET MVC. He also said that we shall be flooded with samples soon. Bring on...

Just updated Wordpress and the final step in the upgrade process is posting a new post about upgrading it. Hmmm... maybe another time, there are better things afoot! MS MVC Code Scott Hanselman is teasing me. He's posted the source code, DevConnections and PNPSummit MVC Demos Source Code, from the MVC demos that he and others have performed. It obviously doesn't work or compile *sigh*. I'm quite curious how the validation is going to work... so far I haven't seen any examples of it. He says there will be a CTP very soon... still can't wait! :-)...

Ahhh... now I remember, I've got a blog! I knew I would find it hard to post to this thing, so hard to find the time! Maybe now the ski season is over (bring on next year!) I can find a bit more time. Castle As I have posted before, I have been experimenting with the castle stack for a little while now and I really enjoy it. Although, at the same time I just feel something is a miss... Maybe it was my decision to go with brail and the debugging nightmare that came with it....