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Herding Code Podcast
This week on Herding Code, K Scott, Jon, Kevin, and Scott K field your questions. That’s right – it’s a Listener-Powered Lightning Round! Whether you were interested in their opinions on Microsoft LightSwitch, energy drinks or how the current economic downturn affects quality and craftsmanship, this week’s conversation is being directed by you!

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ASP.NET MVC ForEach-Loop Sugar
When you make the move from classic ASP.NET MVC webforms, one of the funny questions you hear is, “Where is the repeater control?”. The MVC veteran responds, “It’s called a For-Loop”.

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Building my new blog with Orchard – Part 1 - Tales from the Evil Empire
Several people have asked me if I would move my blog to Orchard. There are actually several challenges with this that have nothing to do with Orchard itself, but suffice it to say that right now I’m not really considering it.

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Dynamic LINQ Part 2 (Evolution) - Unhandled Exception
This library let developers put together late bound LINQ queries using a special syntax. This really comes in handy when you want to build a LINQ query based on dynamic input.

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Design Through Testability - An Example
I recently posted about the importance of testability with respect to good design. Lets look at an example of how testability can turn bad code into beautiful code.

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How to switch between HTTP and HTTPS in ASP.NET MVC2 - Jeff Widmer's Blog
ASP.NET MVC2 has the new RequireHttpsAttribute that you can use to decorate any action to force any non-secure request to come through HTTPS (SSL)

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RequestValidation Changes in ASP.NET 4.0 - Rick Strahl's Web Log
There’s been a change in the way the ValidateRequest attribute on WebForms works in ASP.NET 4.0. I noticed this today while updating a post on my WebLog all of which contain raw HTML and so all pretty much trigger request validation. I recently upgraded this app from ASP.NET 2.0 to 4.0 and it’s now failing to update posts. At first this was difficult to track down because of custom error handling in my app – the custom error handler traps the exception and logs it with only basic error information so the full detail of the error was initially hidden.

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Where’s Lou » Blog Archive » Orchard 0.5 is out
0.5 is out, which means the infrastructure is baked enough to say it won’t entirely switch out from under you before a v1 release.

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MVC 3 – Supporting Custom View Engines - Jacques Eloff

MVC 3 Preview 1 was released earlier this week. It’s packed with new features such as dependency injection, global filters and new tooling to support multiple view engines, including the new Razor view engine for C# (see the end of this post for a list of related posts). Support for Visual Basic will be included in a future release of MVC. For now, our focus has been on getting as much of the C# support completed, including new project types, item templates and T4 files. In this post I will focus on the new tooling support we included for this release.

 

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Dynamic Methods in View Data
In ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1, we introduced some syntactic sugar for creating and accessing view data using new dynamic properties.

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