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Here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out my VS 2010 and .NET 4 series and ASP.NET MVC 2 series for other on-going blog series I’m working on. [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] .NET/WPF/EF 5 Little C#/.NET ...

Hosted by James Senior, and with guest Phil Haack from the ASP.NET team (the primary owner of ASP.NET MVC), this inaugural episode features a discussion of ASP.NET MVC 3, Preview 1, which was recently released. You can find out all the details about the show here. Video embedded after the break, click through to watch, or you can view it at the ...

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…don’t miss yours truly, speaking at CapArea .NET UG in Vienna, VA tomorrow night on Visual Studio 2010: NOVA SQL User Group Meeting Monday, August 23, 2010 7:00 PM, Vienna, VA This presentation will give ...

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: HRSSUG August Meeting Wednesday, August ...

When playing with the latest ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 bits, some people have mentioned their dislike of the .cshtml extension used for the “razor” view engine that comes with ASP.NET MVC 3 and also WebMatrix. Well there are a number of ways you can change this. For the purposes of learning and tinkering, I decided to try and register a new view ...

This morning we posted the “Preview 1” release of ASP.NET MVC 3.  You can download it here. We’ve used an iterative development approach from the very beginning of the ASP.NET MVC project, and deliver regular preview drops throughout the development cycle.  Our goal with early preview releases like the one today is to get feedback – ...

Last week I blogged about the new Entity Framework 4 “code first” development option.  The EF “code-first” option enables a pretty sweet code-centric development workflow for working with data.  It enables you to: Develop without ever having to open a designer or define an XML mapping file Define model objects by simply ...

.NET 4 ships with a new and much improved version of Entity Framework (EF) – a data access and OR/M  library that lives within the System.Data.Entity namespace. When Entity Framework was first introduced with .NET 3.5 SP1, developers provided a lot of feedback on things they thought were missing or incomplete with that first ...

One of the things my team has been working on has been a new view engine option for ASP.NET. ASP.NET MVC has always supported the concept of “view engines” – which are the pluggable modules that implement different template syntax options.  The “default” view engine for ASP.NET MVC today uses the same .aspx/.ascx/.master file templates as ...

This was pretty straightforward but I didn't find it written up anywhere on the web so here goes. What follows is how I addressed testing IPrincipal in ASP.NET MVC using xunit.net Let's start with the test: 1 [Fact] 2 public void changes_password() { 3 //arrange 4 var controller = ...