I’ve always used native SQL for my applications. Approximately a year or so ago I finally decided to give NHibernate a look and see what all the hype was about. I gave it a test run on a new project as there is really nothing like real world requirements to show you what a tool [...]
I have been having a look at the best way to theme a asp.net mvc website in the last few weeks. I heard about dot less css late last year but hadn’t had time to integrate it into a project until now. Integrating dot less css is pretty easy by default, as shown on its [...]
In my last post I told you about how you can use Regular Expressions to do complex queries in mongodb. In this post I will show you some more features of the Linq Provider. Updated: 16th May 2010 after some feedback Take these two classes for example: public class User { public string Id { [...]
Over the past few weeks I have got quite involved in the development of the Open Source NoRM project started by Andrew Theken which is a MongoDB driver for C#. In particular I have been refactoring and adding new functionality to the LINQ provider. It currently supports a lot of functionality including deep queries, regex, [...]
After a few months of using FluentValidation I asked its author Jeremy Skinner if it were possible to integrate this with xVal. At that time it was not possible because there were no easy way to access the properties needed by xVal. After submitting a few patches, we now have a solution which enables xVal [...]
A few weeks ago I found the Fluent Validation framework by Jeremy Skinner. I needed to conditionally validate a model depending on an application setting. eg. Description field mandatory / not mandatory depending on the clients business requirements. I loved the simplicity of the framework and the separation from the model it provided. Since then [...]
In a previous post I showed you how you can use xVal and the IDataErrorInfo class to add validation to your Asp.net MVC website. In this post I will extend that to Linq-to-Sql and the classes it generates. The northwind database has a suppliers table. The info contained below is using that table with linq-to-sql. [...]
In my last post I showed you how to use Validation attributes on your model for validation. Today I will show how you can create your own attributes that can provide custom validation for you. To accomplish this we need to inherit from ValidationAttribute. We’ll create an attribute today that will only allow a "Yes" [...]
I’ve been playing around with lots of different Validation concepts recently and I think I have come up with something that will be very useful. Hopefully you will also find it useful. Firstly I have been looking at Steve Sanderson‘s new open source project xVal and decided that it was a good place to start. [...]
The whole advantage with MVC over webforms is extensibility at every point. Extensibility, Extensibility, Extensibility. Authorization is a very important and every web project has there own needs and requirements. Full customisation is paramount. Here I will show you a simple way to customise your authorization. In MVC attributes are used to protect a controller [...]