http://www.technologyaces.com IT Staffing and Solutions Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:29:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ASP.NET MVC 2 supports Spark! What? hear me out. The release of ASP.NET MVC 2 includes an amazing hidden gem. You see the “Add View/Controller” dialog now takes into account a T4 directive “output extension”. Getting started with Custom CodeTemplates To get started with Custom CodeTemplates check out this excellent article by ... http://www.technologyaces.com/blog/aspnet-mvc-spark-support/ ASP.NET MVC 2 was RTM’ed today and with the help of Jay Harris – @jayharris we upgraded our rather large codebase to not only ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM but also a new drop of the Spark View Engine built against the RTM. Since the release of Spark View Engine 1.1 ... http://www.technologyaces.com/blog/spark-view-engine-11/ try: If you annotate your methods with the WebGet annotation, when a client adds your service as a service ref, there will be no client configuration information. catch: To put that another way, if you use the WebGet annotation it’s assumed the calling party is going to use rest. finally: if you use the ... http://www.technologyaces.com/blog/wcf-webget-and-client-config/ THIS IS NOT AN OFFICAL RELEASE…YET I spent the evening updating the spark source to support ASP.NET MVC RC/RC2. Well, actually I simply applied the changes that were posted to either the mailing list or codeplex. All the tests pass: Download it here: Binaries: Spark-1.0.1.0-release.zip Source: Spark-1.0.1.0-source.zip This post, hopefully, won’t be up long. Related ... http://www.technologyaces.com/blog/spark-binaries-for-aspnet-mvc-rc2/ Ok, that might be going a little too far but it sounds like the barrier I wrote about a few weeks ago might be going away. Earlier this evening Phil Haack posted this tweet: Excited to hear this I asked a leading implementation question about honoring the output extension directive in ... http://www.technologyaces.com/blog/aspnet-mvc2-to-provide-real-spark-support/ Disclaimer: This post is my personal reflection of a current situation. It’s not intended for any other use. Don’t use this information in anyway. Background The previous enterprise-grade SOA architected systems I’ve worked on, last decade, were Classic ASP, Java or Webforms. These systems had their presentation layer wired directly into the ... http://www.technologyaces.com/blog/soamvc/ Disclaimer: This post is my personal reflection of a current situation. It’s not intended for any other use. Don’t use this information in anyway. Background The previous enterprise-grade SOA architected systems I’ve worked on, last decade, were Classic ASP, Java or Webforms. These systems had their presentation layer wired directly into the ... http://www.technologyaces.com/blog/soamvc/ I could, and will soon, write a long ass post about how I cobbled together a messed-up architecture for building Silverlight applications on top of an enterprise class SOA architecture without RIA but with RIA… Here is a branch of AutoMapper, compiled against Silverlight and now with support for entities generated ... http://www.technologyaces.com/blog/automappersilverlight/