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ASP.NET MVC UserControls Start to Finish

The ASP.NET MVC framework ships with a number of Visual Studio project and item templates to ease our development tasks. One of these templates is a UserControl built specifically for the MVC framework. We are going to walkthrough building a re-usable Header control that can be added to the top of related pages (in this specific case, this Control will be added to all Account pages). If you want to get technical, I suppose this may be a good candidate for the new Nested Master Page support in Visual Studio 2008. But for our purposes, this will do just fine.

February 21, 20086 min read

ASP.NET MVC Conditional Render Helper

Many of us have probably encountered the need for this on various projects. The scenario is simple, we have optional fields that a user may or may not enter values for, and we would like to hide them from display if they were not filled in.

February 20, 20082 min read

ADO.NET Entity Framework Comparison Frustration

Today I began playing with the ADO.NET Entity Framework. This framework looks very promising and I plan on experimenting with it heavily this weekend, so expect some more ADOe articles over the next few weeks.

February 1, 20083 min read