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If you’ve been following this blog, or those of my colleagues Howard and Jon, it’s probably been obvious that we love the Spark view engine. We’ve been using it in anger for the last 6 months or so on our latest Asp.Net MVC project and between us we have nothing but praise for it. I’ve talked before about how the use of Spark really helped us to ...

This is part 3 in a series of posts on using Behaviour Driven Development to build and test your MVC controllers. The full series is as follows: Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 1: The HomeController Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 2: Log On and Off with the AccountController Asp.Net MVC ...

My colleague Jon George has recently been posting about his experiences of performance tuning our latest web application, built on Asp.Net MVC. His introductory post talks briefly about how we spent a large effort in laying the correct foundations for the project, which have ultimately led to its success. Being the “technical lead who had ...

This is part 2 in a series of posts on using Behaviour Driven Development to build and test your MVC controllers. The full series is as follows: Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 1: The HomeController Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 2: Log On and Off with the AccountController Asp.Net MVC ...

This is part 1 in a series of posts on using Behaviour Driven Development to build and test your MVC controllers. The full series is as follows: Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 1: The HomeController Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 2: Log On and Off with the AccountController Asp.Net MVC ...

(Part 1 is here) The main part of the Openid support is in the controllers and in the view. Fortunately the heavy lifting has been done already, with a library called DotNetOpenId and sample code that started life in Rob Connery's storefront sample, and was worked on by my colleagues Howard Van Rooijen and Pete Worthington before I got ...

I am following up on my last post on Oxite by showing how to add OpenId login support to it. I won't finish this today. This first one will cover the repository changes needed. First, download the Oxite source and set up the database. From a database perspective, the table where user logins are stored is called oxite_user. In code this is ...

Today I am looking at  Oxite. Not this Oxite, but this Oxite. It’s a sample application on the ASP.NET MVC platform. It’s a blog engine, so it’s doubly interesting to me. New MVC blogging engines crop up on CodePlex every month or so (and I have contributed code to BlogSvc). Generally they pass without much (or any) notice.   Oxite, ...

The ASP.NET Model-View-Controller kit has finally gone into beta. Blog posts from Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman and Phil Haack give more details. The five preview releases that have preceded it were well received, and the Beta finally brings this exploratory and community design feedback phase to a close, so that there should be few changes ...