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I am an Architect for Dell.com on the Engineering Excellence team. I (co)Founded MvcContrib, Should, Solution Factory, and Pstrami open source projects. I have co-authored MVC 2 in Action, MVC3 in Action, and MVC 4 in Action. I am a Microsoft MVP.
I have founded some online conferences like aspConf, mvcConf, Community For MVCBlog Series
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Monthly Archives: June 2009
Opinionated Input Builders – Part 9 override the default Date Time picker
Part 1 – Overview Part 2 – the Label Part 3 – the Source Code Part 4 – the Partial View Part 5 – the Required Field Indicator Part 6 – the Performance Part 7 – the Performance Take … Continue reading
Posted in .Net, Asp.Net, Asp.Net MVC, c#, CoC, mvc, mvccontrib, Open Source Software, OSS
4 Comments
Performance differences in the ASP.Net MVC View Engine when using two View Engines versus a single Composite View Engine.
While I was testing out my VirtualPathProvider implementation in the Opinionated Input Builders series I ran across an interesting performance difference which was quite surprising. In fact even after looking at the source code to the MVC ViewEngineCollection it … Continue reading
Posted in .Net, Asp.Net, Asp.Net MVC, c#, IIS, mvc, testing, x64
5 Comments
Making a Unit Test Framework agnostic Assertion in C#
At the beginning of the year I got some feedback that the assertions in the MvcContrib.TestHelper library were great and very useful but the problem with them is that we relyed on the NUnit assertions. This was a problem … Continue reading
Posted in .Net, altnetseattle, c#, mvccontrib, testing, Tools, Unittests
2 Comments
Opinionated Input Builders – Part 8 the Auto Form
Part 1 – Overview Part 2 – the Label Part 3 – the Source Code Part 4 – the Partial View Part 5 – the Required Field Indicator Part 6 – the Performance Part 7 – the Performance Take 2 … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
7 Comments
Opinionated Input Builders – Part 7 More on Performance / Take 2.
Part 1 – Overview Part 2 – the Label Part 3 – the Source Code Part 4 – the Partial View Part 5 – the Required Field Indicator Part 6 – the Performance Part 7 – the Performance Take 2 … Continue reading
Posted in .Net, Asp.Net, Asp.Net MVC, c#, CoC, continous improvement, mvc, mvccontrib, Open Source Software, OSS, testing
1 Comment
Opinionated Input Builders Part 6 – Performance of the builders
Part 1 – Overview Part 2 – the Label Part 3 – the Source Code Part 4 – the Partial View Part 5 – the Required Field Indicator Part 6 – the Performance Update – 6/14/2009 Chad Myers blogged about … Continue reading
Posted in .Net, Asp.Net, Asp.Net MVC, c#, CoC, mvccontrib
8 Comments
Free ASP.Net MVC Workshop in Austin on Tuesday June 16th
I am doing a half day workshop at the Microsoft Office in Austin around ASP.Net MVC. I did this in February with Jimmy Bogard and we had about 90 people show up, it was a pretty good event. We … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment
Opinionated Input Builders for ASP.Net MVC – Part 5 the Required input
Part 1 – Overview Part 2 – the Label Part 3 – the Source Code Part 4 – the Partial View Part 5 – the Required Field Indicator The Required Field Indicator The Required Field Indicator is a property which … Continue reading
Posted in .Net, Asp.Net, Asp.Net MVC, c#, CoC, mvccontrib
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Opinionated Input Builders for ASP.Net MVC – Part 4 the Partial View Inputs
Part 1 – Overview Part 2 – the Label Part 3 – the Source Code Part 4 – the Partial View Part 5 – the Required Field Indicator This is the forth part of the series. Given this form that … Continue reading
Posted in Asp.Net, Asp.Net MVC, CoC, mvccontrib
10 Comments
Opinionated Input Builders for ASP.Net MVC – Part 3 the source code.
Part 1 – Overview Part 2 – the Label Part 3 – the Source Code Part 4 – the Partial View Part 5 – the Required Field Indicator There have been a number of requests for me to provide the … Continue reading
Posted in .Net, Asp.Net, Asp.Net MVC, c#, CoC
7 Comments

