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've been wanting to make a site using the Castle Project for a while now and I finally took some time out yesterday to give it a whirl. First impressions, awesome... I can't wait to get fully stuck into it! Which should be about 1 minute after writing this! :-) I've just finished using CakePHP for a big project, so MonoRail's MVC way of thinking isn't foreign to me. I've also been wanting to have a look at NHibernate and ActiveRecord is built on top of NHibernate so I can get a bit of a low down on how...