Development

Background Technically this isn't specific to ASP.NET MVC at all, that just happens to be how I use Elmah. I started work on an ASP.NET MVC project with certain erroneous preconceived notions. I originally started the database with SQL 2008 in mind because I run Windows 7. An easily accessible staging server used SQL 2005 and it was here that I ran into my first compatibility snag. A database project may be set for an earlier revision but you can't transplant those .bak files and expect them to restore. This is generally 101 level stuff but something I ...

While this post actually has nothing to do with ASP.NET MVC directly, the only common denominator is that I came up with this technique while working on the platform. To be a true 1:1 copy of the previous website I would be converting to ASP.NET MVC, I had to come up with a way to reintroduce the <blink> tag to XHTML. While you are perfectly able to use <blink> it doesn't actually do any blinking in IE8 or Firefox. To show that properly, jQuery comes to the rescue. The technique is really pretty simple: Define your element with an arbitrary id ...

Most of this may or may not be relevant to your situation but after completing development, staging, and most of the production implementation of an ASP.NET MVC site I wanted to share some of what I learned. The majority are one or two-off hacks from someone else's code or a down/upgrade where appropriate, creating a Frankenstein. These won't necessarily be in order I don't think. Homepage - various jQuery plugins & content fetching Content/ structure Elmah Code version: 1.1.11517.2009 Downgraded ELMAH_LogError stored procedure to SQL 2000 ELMAH_ ...

I've recently switched hosting providers at the company I work for. Instead of being able to use wildcard mapping or the .mvc file extension mapping, I'm left with .aspx. The premise of this exercise is easily explained here: http://www.asp.net/learn/mvc/tutorial-08-cs.aspx, specifically Listing #3 under the Hosted Server section. While this is fine for a default MVC1 project, I've currently implemented Phil Haack's Areas v1 prototype with Steve Sanderson's CreateArea extension method located here http://blog.codeville.net/2008/11/05/app-areas-in-aspnet ...

Technically it's still comming!!! but I wanted my first post to officially thank Richard Dodsworth aka "Conkerjo" of Sgt. Conker for letting me host my blog and domain on his equipment. Without such a generous gesture, none of this would be possible. I also wanted to take the time to pimp Sgt. Conker for its XNA goodness as I play a very small roll in keeping it together. There are a number of admins on the back-end in addition to Conkerjo, like Björn Graf (boki), Catalin Zima (CatalinZ), (Cryovat), Casey Young (ElementCy), and Michael Coles (X-Tatic). I ...