The other day I tried to install the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 beta. The installer failed. Here’s the solution.
One of my disappointments with Ruby on Rails is that it provides no support whatsoever for site logins/membership, which I consider to be a fundamental part of many database-driven websites. Of course, the Rails community has responded — and responded, and responded, and responded — to this need. The Rails wiki notes that there […]
There’s a whole lot of ground not covered in the official update instructions.
The MVC Web UI helpers are now in the framework. But they’ve changed quite a bit. So you must:
Remove the assembly from your project.
UpdateFrom is no longer an extension method. It’s now a static method in System.Web.Mvc.BindingHelperExtensions. So you have to change anywhere […]
I recently wrote about limitations in creating IntraWeb components dynamically when using the template processor component. It looks like the Arcana template processor, recently released as open source, may allow this. Worth investigating, anyway.
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The March 2008 ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 is incompatible with AJAX and Dynamic Data. Ouch!
AJAX and dynamic data features cannot be mixed in the same Web site or application as the new ASP.NET MVC. You should use separate Web sites or applications.
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For the past couple of days I’ve been working on an experimental IntraWeb (a.k.a., "VCL for the Web") project. Since I typically generate user interfaces dynamically, I wanted to see how that worked with IntraWeb. On the surface, it’s fairly similar to the regular VCL, but there are some important differences.