Charles Vallance

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! :-)...

I've been doing a bit of experimentation with Castle Validation recently and thought I should write about a few of my findings... also found a couple of oddities here and there which Hammett squashed very quickly. Setting up the validation rules was as easy as 1, 2, 3. It was just a matter of adding some validation attributes to my public properties in my ActiveRecord classes. Eg. [Property] [ValidateNonEmpty("First name is required")] public string FirstName { get { return _firstname; } set { _firstname = value; } } I could quite easily dictate how the validation...