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I was bored…
…so I decided to design an IoC Container! This actually turned out to be a lot of fun too. I’d like to firstly state that a) there is no reason for this code, and b) this is not a replacement for established IoC solutions, such as Unity, Castle Windsor, Ninject, Authofac, StructureMap, and [...]

Previously I discovered Regula, an annotation-based validation framework used for client-side validation of form elements. I wondered if it was possible to automatically wire up client-side validation using DataAnnotation’s ValidationAttributes on the server side, very similar to how xVal might handle it.
This is by no means usable, its really an experiment to see what [...]

Earlier this evening I came across a Stack Overflow question regarding a most excellent new javascript validation framework, called Regula. Regula is an annotation-based validation framework that hides the complexities of binding complex validation events to controls by extending the DOM element itself with annotations about how it should be validated. Here is a [...]

See also: Modular ASP.NET MVC using the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), Part One
See also: Modular ASP.NET MVC using the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), Part Two
Currently reading: Modular ASP.NET MVC using the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), Part Three

Firstly, sorry it’s been so long since my last MVC+MEF post, been a bit busy with life in general. [...]

I love Linq. Linq just makes code awesome. Well, that’s my view on it anyway. I also like Javascript, and through libraries like JQuery we’ve now got a framework whereby you can pretty much do anything, but often I like getting down to the bare-bones of Javascript and just having a go at what [...]

See also: Modular ASP.NET MVC using the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), Part One
Currently reading: Modular ASP.NET MVC using the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), Part Two
See also: Modular ASP.NET MVC using the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), Part Three

In my previous post I presented an MVC Framework that uses the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) to allow for [...]

Building on my previous MEF + MVC example, I present a revised framework for building truly modular ASP.NET MVC websites through MEF.

While I do most of my coding in C#, there is still a lot of work I do which resides in the client, namely the browser. While we can employ nice unit testing and mocking frameworks in C#, the same can’t be said for Javascript. There has been a large uptake of Javascript [...]

I’ve recently been introduced to the Managed Extensibility Framework by a colleague at work, and have enjoyed picking it up so much it made me wonder how I could apply the simplicity of composition into my favourite web framework, ASP.NET MVC. There are a few obstacles to overcome initially, namely how instances are composed [...]

Often is the case when you’re creating an application (be it web or not) the need for caching can become a critical part of software design. You can be faced with a myriad of designs and mechanisms used to store objects, and the specifics of how each container works from one implementation to the [...]