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Show #5 of the Community Megaphone Podcast is now available! In this episode, Dane and I chat with Steve Michelotti. We discuss ASP.NET MVC 2, the software craftsmanship movement, and more. Want to keep up with all the latest episodes? You can subscribe to our RSS feed, follow the show on Twitter, or become a fan on Facebook. Enjoy the podcast? ...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest…this list includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar, and all events entered in Community Megaphone are also automatically synced to the UGSS event calendar: PGHDOTNET March Meeting - PGHDOTNET and Pgh ...

Is it March already? Really? Well, at least maybe we’re closer to the end of all this snow now… Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest…this list includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar, and all events entered in Community Megaphone are ...

I have an xunit test project that is using hand-rolled stubs as concrete implementations of interfaces. StructureMap is the DI container I'm using. I was looking at the names of my stubs, and they followed the convention of TestXYZ as the concrete implementation of IXYZ. To use StructureMap from xunit tests, I created a base class ...

On a Virtual Machine, I had Visual Studio 2008 SP1 installed along with ASP.NET 3.5 SP1. I tried installing the newly released ASP.NET MVC 2 Release Candidate 2 on that machine and received the following: The project file '<project path and name>' cannot be opened. The project type is not supported by this installation. To resolve this, ...

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] Earlier this evening the ASP.NET team shipped ASP.NET MVC (Release Candidate 2) for VS 2008/.NET 3.5.  You can download it here. The RC2 release of ASP.NET MVC 2 is a follow-up to the first ASP.NET MVC 2 RC build ...

Given some of the recent discussions and debates over the value of ASP.NET Web Forms (with which I have deep experience) and ASP.NET MVC, I thought I would immerse myself more deeply into MVC. To that end, I’m doing some prototyping with the ASP.NET MVC 2 release that shipped with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. Following along with the demos in the ...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last couple of years, you’ve probably heard that there’s a new kid on the ASP.NET block, called ASP.NET MVC. Likewise, you may have heard some folks suggest that the release of ASP.NET MVC (and the coming release of ASP.NET MVC 2) heralds the death of Web Forms. There have been passionate debates on ...

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] Technical debates are discussed endlessly within the blog-o-sphere/twitter-verse, and they range across every developer community. Each language, framework, tool, and platform inevitably has at least a few going on at ...

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] This is the second in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming ASP.NET MVC 2 release.  This blog post covers some of the validation improvements coming with ASP.NET MVC 2. ASP.NET MVC 2 Validation ...