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On the Road to iTextFileResult: Getting the Results from System.Web.MVC.WebFormViewEngine
I’m in the process of building a new ActionResult for ASP.NET MVC. This new ActionResult will allow you to transform data into a PDF, RTF, or HTML (it uses iTextSharp behind the scenes, and yes, I have a working prototype right now that isn’t all that useful yet.. and you have to know way too much in order to use it as of this time).
Essentially what I want to do is use any view engine that the programmer chooses and convert the resulting html, xml, or regular string data into a file that gets pushed to the browser. All this...
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Using the Ajax control toolbox with jQuery (and ASP.NET MVC)
[Here’s a preview of something I’m going to show Thursday night at the Tampa MVC group.]
You may have thought that by jumping on ASP.NET MVC that you have to leave behind all the cool Ajax Control Toolbox controls.. or more than likely you realize that it’s possible to use them, but one has to be a “JavaScript Rocket Scientist” to use them..
It’s really not, but you do need a couple things to use them.. First of all go here (Bertrand Le Roy’s blog) and pick up the jQuery plugin that let’s you instantiate MS Ajax Behaviors. Next go here to...
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clientscript as the view controller
I’m finalizing my demos for next week’s talk at the Tampa ASP.NET MVC user group. I’m also in the midst of a deploy to our test servers of among other things a page that is an experimental architecture for me and my team. I was talking with my boss (Perry for those of you who attend Tampa UX). He had to do a little touch up on my quickly thrown together UI. He told me after playing with it that he really liked how it performs and even how it works. He thinks it’s a pretty good UX.
It’s actually very...
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MS MVC Thoughts
[NOTE: I haven’t quite had much of a chance to look at the new Preview 4, so take this as someone nearly informed. I haven’t read about anything in the Preview 4 that changes what I’m going to say. Also, remember that I am the admin/editor of the blog site which is Alt Alt.NET... so testability/mockabilty doesn’t really resonate with me.] I know it’s shocking that I would have something to weigh in on MS MVC, but I do. For those who don’t know. I took some issue with Ayende’s "leaky abstraction" back in my CodeBetter days (they had...