Developer Notes

Secure file system access for Windows 2008 Servers

Secure file system access on Linux is easy with SSH, now you can use that on Windows as well.

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Git tips 1 : Zipping all changed files

Zip all changes since a previous commit easily.

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Castle: PerWebRequestLifeStyle revisited

A second look at Castle's PerRequestLifeStyle and application initialization.

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Castle: PerWebRequestLifeStyle won’t work from Application_Start

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MVC best practices : Don’t use strings!

Magic strings in code are usually a bad idea for anything but trivial applications, ASP.NET MVC is no exception.

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Alanta.Mvc : Multiple partial views without .aspx files

Build more flexible views in ASP.NET MVC. Code is up on GitHub.

2 minutes 45 seconds read

ASP.NET MVC strong typed routing

Use types to reference controllers instead of strings so the compiler can check your code.

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Mixing ASP.NET WebForms with MVC

Transistion from WebForms to MVC without a major rewrite by enabling the MVC controllers to insert existing WebForms based controls.

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