Simple Form Helper As I continue to use JQuery and MVC I am completely impressed with how much you can do with very little. I know the new preview 4 came out with an AjaxForm helper. I could not resist, so I made my own and added it to the whole…
Upgrade to BlogEngine 1.4
Well, I finally upgraded to BlogEngine.NET 1.4 (patch and all). It took about 40 minutes or so (I was overly cautious of course). I am currently using SQL Server as the provider. Thanks to Al Nyveldt everything went smoothly. Overall, I like the…
Moving away from ASP 3.0 ... As mentioned in my previous post, I wanted to find a way to auto-populate and entity object from the Request.Form collection. I also wanted (as an aside) to see if the grid still worked on MVC Preview 4 (it does). Here…
Moving to an HTML Helper As I was looking around at the various HTML helpers out there, I realized that I should probably conform and stick to what is being done. Having said that, I refactored the Grid class to be a new HTML helper. Here is how it…
Preamble Over the long weekend I thought a lot about where I wanted to go with the grid "control" for ASP.NET MVC. One of the things that weighed heavily on my mind was the ability to have the control fully customizable. As I thought about this, I…
At work we are starting a major project and I think we have decided to go the ASP.NET MVC route. One of the concerns we had was that we could not use traditional "web controls" (i.e. Telerik, DevExpress) since the all require the `ToAjaxGrid`. The T…
As I was looking around for ways to enable Ajax in the current ASP.NET MVC release I found a couple of things that I found pretty useful and thought I should share. The J in Ajax (JQuery) The muscle behind the actual asynchronous calls comes from…
F# Dictionary Binary Search
During a recent assignment, I found the need to create a quick word lookup from an ordered dictionary file. I post the following: Let me describe what is happening. I have found that as I learn to write stuff functionally, I tend to do things from a…