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{ Monthly Archives } July 2008

Alternate View Folders in ASP.NET MVC

Stephen Walther recently posted a tip on how to load an ASP.NET MVC View from a folder other than Views\{controller}\ or Shared. He notes that it’s possible to hardcode the path to a View in your Controller action.  He also states that you should not do this:
Now, I want to be the first to warn [...]

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InterBase 2009 Partner DVD

I am once again organizing vendor participation for the InterBase Partner DVD.  If your company produces a tool, application, component set, etc. which explicitly supports InterBase, the Partner DVD is one of the best ways to ensure that your software is available to anyone who purchases InterBase.  You can include a full version, a trial, [...]

The ADO.NET Entity Framework vs. NHibernate and Other ORMs

In the past couple of weeks, I’ve had occasion to look fairly closely at the ADO.NET Entity Framework, and compare it to NHibernate. Of course, before I even started, I went out and read what other people had to say on the subject. Many people point to this post by Dan Simmons as approximating the "official" Microsoft position on the subject, and commenters around the web seem to focus specifically on what band calls "a [not yet delivered, but] much larger vision of an entity-aware data platform." That’s interesting, but there are differences which exist today which are perhaps even more interesting.

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Moq and MvcMockHelpers

I’m working on some unit tests for an ASP.NET MVC application I’m developing.  One of the tests ensures that if I construct a URL using Html.ActionLink that the URL which is returned, when fed into the routing system, becomes a correct representation of the route data used to build the URL originally.  I’ll discuss this [...]

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JAWS, XP Themes, and Accessibility

It seems that the popular screen reader (software which translates text on the computer screen into spoken audio for the blind) JAWS has problems with applications produced in Delphi when they are manifested for Windows XP.  I don’t know if the problem is limited only to Delphi applications, though.  What I do know is that [...]

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