aspnetmvc

Oh yeah….

Jeff Sheldon — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:31:10 GMT

I forgot a couple of things I wanted to say…

Firstly, it’s been a while since I updated Subtext, so I went ahead and did that. And just in case you’re as dumb as I am, late me save you a few minutes by informing you to make sure you don’t copy up the web.config blindly. Oh yeah…there was 5 minutes of my time wasted digging around for the connection string to the blog’s database so I could put the site back together…Good times….

But back to KodeBits. I wanted to touch on my reasoning behind this.. I’ve been playing around with ASP.NET MVC for a little while now, and I’ve been really looking for a site to build with it. And now that ASP.NET MVC 2 is on it’s way, I finally figure something out. The technologies I’m using are:

SubSonic AND Entity Framework (That’s right both)
ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Will upgrade to 2.0 once that’s in VS2010)
Structure Map – Don’t know how I got along without this..
A whole lot of jQuery love

Yeah, I’m using a simple repository pattern, and I wanted to have two different repository types built off of my Interfaces. Why? Cuz I can. I know it’s extra work, but I like the idea of being able to flip between two for no reason whatsoever. Plus I wanted to show a colleague the benefits of the repository/interface approach.

Hrm, ok I think that’s it for real this time.

Time to make the donuts!

Jeff Sheldon — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:28:15 GMT

I haven’t had much to blog about lately, but then ran across this post from Rob Conery in which he talks about every developer should have to build their own light saber so to speak. Every developer should take the time to forge out something for them, that they need, their way. It’s kind of an inspiring post, if you read some of his comments that go along with it. While I’m happy with the blog engine I’m using (Subtext) for the most part, I don’t think I use it enough. I think if I spend the time writing one, and maybe blogging about my progress, it might open me up to blogging in the future.

It’s tough to sit here and write your thoughts online and open yourself up to a great deal of criticism, but a lot of others do it, and they’re still breathing. I suppose since no one reads this thing, I can just consider it a resource for myself, a place I can come back to for snippets or ideas I shelved in the past.

Now… lets make my shopping list..

Technologies

I’m pretty sure I want to use ASP.NET MVC 2 and SubSonic 3. My reasoning here is, if I’m not mistaken, I can’t use the ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta with VS2010, so that keeps me using .NET 3.5 (As much as I’d like to start using the new Entity Framework) Also, I haven’t used SubSonic in a while, I’d like to get back into it and see what features they’ve added.

Maybe I can find some places to inject some Silverlight 3?

Ideas

Well, I’d like for it to work with Windows Live Writer. That’s how I create my posts now, and it’s helpful.

Need to have your basics… Rss Feeds, Recent Posts, Tag Cloud……

Interactivity, the only interaction between visitors and a blog seems to be comments, I wonder if I can come up with something more…

I really like the feel and flow of Stack Overflow, I’d like to present the same fluid kind of feel.

Design

Lets think about design patterns. I’m a big fan of a kind of pseudo repository pattern where an IQueryable object is passed up to from the data layer, through the business layer directly to the consumer. But maybe it’s time to try something different.

While I’m using the latest and greatest, I think I’ll use the new MVC controls by Telerik. I’ve used all of Telerik’s controls at some point over the past few years, but these are open source, so I think I’ll include them in this project. (Going to release the full source, so don’t want any third party stuff blocking that).

I want administration to be a no brainer.

Auto Linking…. Live Writer does it already, but it might be kind of neat to implement it in the engine itself.

That’s enough for now, let me go think on this some, and come up with a name.

It has begun!

Jeff Sheldon — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:15:37 GMT

Well I feel the need to start sharing. Though I don't know what I'll share, mostly what I learn is from other blogs. But who cares? No one knows who I am yet anyway, right?

So what do I have to talk about today? My incessant need to continuously find a "better way". There's this project of mine, that I've been working on for about 2 years now. The problem is I keep having to put it only hold for various reasons. (I'm sure others can relate) The problem is, when I come back to it, and look over the code, I'm disgusted. Over my "break" from the code, I've continued to read, and learn, and now that I've picked my project up again, I know of a "better way" or simply just want to apply some knowledge I've learned.

This project started off as a basic ASP.NET web site using SubSonic as my tool of choice for access the database. And now? It's an ASP.NET MVC application using the entity framework. Speaking of which, Hat's off the the ASP.NET MVC devs!

So what hunk of code do I have today? Well this CacheManager tool I've been messin around with. Here's the primary static method I'm using.

        public static T HandleCache<T>(IQueryable<T> Query, object Value, int? MinToExpire)
        {
            var keyName = string.Format("{0}_{1}", typeof(T), Value);
            if (HttpContext.Current.Cache[keyName] != null && HttpContext.Current.Cache[keyName] is T)
                return (T)HttpContext.Current.Cache[keyName];
 
            var item = Query.FirstOrDefault();
            if (item != null)
            {
                if (MinToExpire.HasValue)
                    HttpContext.Current.Cache.Add(keyName, item, null, DateTime.MaxValue, new TimeSpan(0, MinToExpire.Value, 0), CacheItemPriority.Normal, null);
                else
                    HttpContext.Current.Cache.Insert(keyName, item);
            }
            return item;
        }

See, I'm lazy... I just want to call something like:

var account = CacheManager.HandleCache<Account>(m_AccounService.GetAccount().WithID(UserID), UserID, 20);

And poof have my Account object (If it exists) and have it all cached up and ready to go. I just feel like there could be a better way.

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