Author Archives: Eric Hexter

About Eric Hexter

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 co-founded online events like mvcConf, aspConf, and Community for MVC. I am also a Microsoft MVP in ASP.Net.

Build Monitoring in the cloud

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Eric Hexter

I have been using a number of services in the cloud lately, AppHarbor, Azure Websites, MyGet, Code Betters Team City OSS Continuous Integration server. While these services are making deploying websites and nuget packages easier then ever.  I do not … Continue reading →

Posted in .Net, CC.Net, continous improvement, continous integration, Deployment, GIT, Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Registration is open for aspConf

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Eric Hexter

We are really excited about this conference! This is a free, online, two day conference that will focus on web development on using .Net.  We will have great speakers from the community and industry lined up. We already have speakers … Continue reading →

Posted in .Net, Asp.Net MVC, c#, Community, Uncategorized, Usergroup | 1 Comment

Using Powershell to make your NuPack Packages – more Awesome

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Eric Hexter

Yeah.. Its a cheesy title but what can I say. You can file this under “why nupack is not just for open source”.  We are using Nupack to distributed dependencies libraries and for the UI Framework where I work (Dell).  … Continue reading →

Posted in .Net, nupack, Solution Factory, VS2010 | 4 Comments

Using Solution Factory + NuPack to create Opinionated Visual Studio Solutions.

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Eric Hexter

Using Solution Factory inside of NuPack opens up a great new world of creating Solution Level templates. Previously, I wrote a lot of code in Solution Factory that just kept running into edge cases working against the Visual Studio automation … Continue reading →

Posted in nupack, OSS, Solution Factory, Tools, VS2010 | 5 Comments

NuPack– .Net Package Management… and much, much, more

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Eric Hexter

Yeah.. so all the Ruby and Java guys are saying.. Its about time .Net got a package management system. There were a few growing in the open source space, but none have really gained any traction.  Nu seemed to be … Continue reading →

Posted in .Net, nupack, OSS | Comments Off

MSDN License Giveaways for Open Source Projects

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Eric Hexter

I am totally excited to support the folks over at Devlicio.us and their giveaway.  They are giving away MSDN  Licenses to Open Source projects in need of said licenses.  As a Microsoft MVP, I was given three MSDN License’s to … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Source Software, OSS | Comments Off

Converting from webforms to MVC presentation?

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Eric Hexter

I just posted the video from the Community for MVC presentation by Matt Hawley about how Codeplex has been converting the site from ASP.Net Webforms to ASP.Net MVC . The video is posted here. Checkout the rest of the C4MVC … Continue reading →

Posted in .Net, Asp.Net, Asp.Net MVC, mvc, Usergroup | 3 Comments

Jobs doing .Net – working on dell.com

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Eric Hexter

So, you may or may not have heard that I left my old company Headspring and I took a job another well known Austin based company called Dell.  It was with mixed feelings that I left, because Headspring has awesome … Continue reading →

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Signup for MvcConf – Virtual ASP.Net MVC Conference

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Eric Hexter

  When: Thursday in July 22nd 8am – 5pm CDT Cost: Free Where: Virtual (Live Meeting) Register: http://mvcconf.com   MvcConf is a online conference where you can learn about real experiences creating MVC applications as well about what the future … Continue reading →

Posted in .Net, Asp.Net, Asp.Net MVC, Community, IIS, jQuery, Usergroup | 10 Comments

Using ModelMetaData in ASP.Net MVC 2 to wire up sweet jQuery awesomeness

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Eric Hexter

I recently came up with an approach to wiring up some jquery plugins that modify the behavior of standard input text boxes.  The approach is not original by any means.I got the idea from the built in client side validation … Continue reading →

Posted in Asp.Net MVC, jQuery, mvc | 5 Comments