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Book Review: 20 Recipes for Programming MVC 3

Eric — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:43:40 +0000

I was excited about the opportunity to read and review the book “20 Recipes for Programming MVC 3″. I was hoping for some great programming gems that combined my love of Mvc programming with patterns. This book fell far short of my expectations. The first chapter discusses the use of the Authorize attribute and the [...]

Tulsa School of Dev, 2011

Eric — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:20:17 +0000

Last Friday I gave a presentation on setting up an Asp.Net Mvc application at the Tulsa School of Dev. The remainder of this post provides numerous links to information on routing, dependency injection, areas, html helpers, T4 templates, data annotation, and a couple of nuget packages you may find interesting. General Links http://www.asp.net/mvc http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu http://haacked.com [...]

Facebook Posts From Your Mvc App

Eric — Thu, 19 May 2011 05:00:00 +0000

In this post you will find a complete example of posting to a Facebook wall from an Asp.Net Mvc application. In addition to posting to a Facebook wall this post will show you how to display pages from your web site inside Facebook. We will be using the Facebook C# sdk found on Codeplex. Create [...]

HP Computer Saga

Eric — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:59:57 +0000

I have been building computers for more than 20 years. I am also getting to the point where building computers doesn’t have the same thrill that it once did. I just want the darn thing to work. The computer has to have the features I want, which is why I still generally build my own. [...]

Building a MVC2 Template, Part 19, Finishing NHibernate

Eric — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:00:00 +0000

This post will be fairly short. It will also tie together the two previous posts into our solution. If I haven’t left anything out, by the end of this article your solution will compile without errors and all the specifications will pass testing. We’ll start by creating the tables to hold our data. In part [...]

Building a MVC2 Template, Part 18, Adding NHibernate

Eric — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Here is the long awaited post that deals directly with adding NHibernate to our MVC2 template project. This post will present the code that gives our providers (Membership, Role, and Profile) access to the database. This implementation of the IProviderRepository interface will use NHibernate. The first thing we want to do is add all the [...]

Building a MVC2 Template, Part 17, Adding Provider Repository Specifications

Eric — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 05:00:00 +0000

In the next three series of posts we will be adding NHibernate, Fluent NHibernate, and NHibernate.Linq to our template. This specific installment on building a MVC2 template we will update the Nehemiah.Specs project. This project contains all of the specifications for the template. We’ll add the specifications for the provider repository. The provider repository is [...]

Adding NHibernate to our MVC2 Template

Eric — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 05:06:33 +0000

The post on adding NHibernate to the MVC2 template is working out to be a huge post. Because of that, the NHibernate installment will be made in at least two posts, but no more than three. I expect to have the first post ready for Monday, Oct 18 and the follow up post to be [...]

Building a MVC2 Template, Part 16, Fun With NHibernate

Eric — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 05:00:00 +0000

In the last post on building an MVC2 Application Template we stopped just short of implementing the repository for the membership, role, and profile providers. I have all the code and specs written for an NHibernate implementation of the provider repository. Issues started arising when I began validating the specifications. Those issues are presented here. [...]

AES Encryption Bug

Eric — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:56:02 +0000

According to this article, http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2010/09/14/aspnet-security-hack.aspx, there is a bug in the AES encryption algorithm in dot Net. Since we’re in the midst of writing about creating a custom membership provider this could prove to be valuable information. The solution is to switch to 3DES encryption. This will be reflected in an upcoming post.