New French Coding4Fun site released

New and exciting fun place to learn coding for French speaking friends...  Click here to go to Coding4Fun...

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Upgrading Projects from ASP.NET MVC Preview 1 to Preview 2 (MIX 2008)

 

If you previously had ASP.NET MVC Preview 1 (CTP 1) and had already created a few projects on it then you might have to take this additional step to convert your project to ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 (MIX 2008) [After installing MVC Preview 2 (Resources here)].

In ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 we introduced a special MVC Project flavor GUID for MVC Projects.  Some of the special MVC project behaviors described in my previous post "Tooling Features Overview"  may not function as expected e.g. new 'MVC' node under the 'Web' node for 'Add new Items Dialog Box' may not show...

 

To make the project features to function as expected in Preview 2, open the MVC project file (.csproj/.vbproj) of the project you created using MVC Preview 1.  Look for 'ProjectTypeGuids'... You will find the below piece of code...

       <ProjectTypeGuids>{349c5851-65df-11da-9384-00065b846f21};{fae04ec0-301f-11d3-bf4b-00c04f79efbc}</ProjectTypeGuids>

Replace the above with:

<ProjectTypeGuids>{603c0e0b-db56-11dc-be95-000d561079b0};{349c5851-65df-11da-9384-00065b846f21};{fae04ec0-301f-11d3-bf4b-00c04f79efbc}</ProjectTypeGuids>

When you reload/reopen your project your MVC Preview 2 functionality will be available in the projects you created MVC Preview 1.  Do note this in addition to other steps mentioned in the Readme Document for ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 which goes into greater details of upgrade scenario.

Google's 9 Principles of Innovation

 

This is worth a read:

http://www.fastcompany.com/fast50_08/google_marissa-mayers-9-principles-of-innovation.html

ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview 2 (Mix 2008) Resources

I am attempting to compile the relevant resources for ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview 2 at one place so that you will not have to keep searching around...

ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 Download Location:
Preview 2 Download (English-US) - Microsoft.com download location to get the latest MVC bits...

ASP.NET MVC Documentation:
Home Page - Asp.Net home page where you can find latest updates on ASP.NET MVC Framework in general...
User Documentation - The official Microsoft user documentation on ASP.NET MVC Framework...
Readme File - Contains a ton of information on how to install the preview 2 and how can it play well if you already have MVC Framework Preview 1, Silverlight etc...

ASP.NET MVC Learning
Forums - There is a ton of activity on ASP.NET MVC Framework forums, this is a great way of getting your questions answered...
Videos - There are some great quick start videos on ASP.NET MVC Framework available here, we will be adding more videos here going forward to do keep checking

ASP.NET MVC Blogs
Scottgu's Tutorials Root - Scottgu has a bunch of very walk-through on ASP.NET MVC Framework here...
ASP.NET Tooling Overview - In this post I have explained the tooling features for ASP.NET MVC Framework...
MVC Unit Test Framework Integration - In this post I have explained how you can integrate a new test framework like NUnit, MBUnit, xUnit etc into your MVC Application.
NUnit & Rhino Mocks Integration - In this post Joe has taken a NUnit and Rhino Mocks framework as an example and he has created a Test Project Template for you to download... I will highly encourage you to check this out...
Phil Haack's Blog - Phil keeps writing interesting posts about ASP.NET MVC Framework... It would be nice to routinely check his blog too...
My Blog - I also intend to keep posting ASP.NET MVC Framework articles on my blog regularly so you might want to check that out too...
Scott Hanselman's Blog - Scott has some ASP.NET MVC Zen stuff on his blog too, do find time to check that out...

ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Source Code
http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet - CodePlex Home Page for ASP.NET
MVC Preview 2 Source Code - CodePlex location to download MVC Preview 2 Source Code

Hope this helps...

On Demand Webcast : Visual Studio 2008 for Web Developers

VS 2008 brings a great deal of features for Web Developers...  As a part of VS 2008 launch I did a web cast on MSDN on Feb 26th 2008.  Below are few of the features that I did demos on, hope you will enjoy it:

1. Multi-Targeting
2. Split View & Nested Master pages
3. CSS Features (Manage Styles, Apply Styles, CSS Properties & Summary)
4. ASP.NET List View Control and Ajax
5. Javascript Intellisense and Type inferencing
6. Javascript Referencing & Commenting
7. Calling Services (.asmx & .svc )from Javascript
8. Javascript Debugging
9. Web Deployment Projects (WDP) for VS 2008

REPLAY URL : https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/mseventsbmo/view?id=1032369517&role=attend&pw=A6176DF3