ASP.Net MVC

" The jQuery UI widgets are brilliant. They speed up web development no end with those easy to use controls. The downside is remembering all the HTML mark-up and widget options! "

"One common problem with the naming convention and default routing mechanism in ASP.NET MVC is that we tend to group actions in a controller for sharing an URL space. This basically leads to complex controllers with a lot of unrelated methods that break the SOLID principles. Too many responsibilities in a simple class affects maintainability in the long run and causes secondary effects that complicates unit testing. For example, we usually end up with class constructors that receives too many dependencies as it is discussed here in SO."

Applying Uncle Bob's packaging principals to MVC organization

"The primary issue with running an ASP.NET site in IIS7 Integrated Pipeline mode is if you have any HTTP modules configured. See, the "problem" is that with ASP.NET under IIS6, there were essentially two pipelines: one for ASP.NET and one for IIS. A request would come into IIS and if the file extension was mapped to the ASP.NET ISAPI extension, the request would be passed off to aspnet_isapi.dll and was then processed by the ASP.NET pipeline, which is where the HTTP modules come into play with regards to events that occur in the pipeline. However, in IIS7 there is only one pipeline for those events, and its used for both IIS7 native modules and ASP.NET modules (once the pipeline events have been taken care of, the file is taken care of by the appropriate ISAPI extension)."

Async Controller in ASP.NET MVC 3 (and 4)

"Spark is a view engine for Asp.Net Mvc and Castle Project MonoRail frameworks. The idea is to allow the html to dominate the flow and the code to fit seamlessly."

Looked at Spark about a yaer ago and it seemed ok - better than the webforms one. Started using Razor very recently and it is just amazing.

Yup, been using Razor in MM for the last 9 months or more, and it is awesome! But I read this, yesterday, that's why I tagged it: http://geek.ianbattersby.com/2012/01/07/battle-of-heart-vs-mind-you-win-again-razor-over-spark

"The .NET CLR can give your web application a significant performance boost compared to other platforms such as PHP due to it's compiled nature. Not only does your .NET code perform better because it's more low-level, it also comes with good support for parallel programming. This guide will not explain the basics of a responsive and fast web application by talking about CSS minifying, sprites, content delivery networks, etc. Instead this guide will be an essential guide for making sure you don't miss any features that can enhance the performance of your ASP.NET MVC3 application. "

"I love ELMAH - this is one those libraries which is both beautiful in its simplicity yet powerful in what it allows you to do. Combine the power of ELMAH with the convenience of NuGet and you can be up and running with absolutely invaluable error logging and handling in literally a couple of minutes."

"HTML 5 experimentation and demos I've hacked together. Click on the browser support icon or the technology tag to filter the demos (the filter is an OR filter)."

(Not strictly speaking ASP.Net MVC, but very relevant to MVC sites too.) "Mayday detects changes in users behaviour, validation and javascript errors providing insights into users experience & what problems happen."

"Super Simple Auto Spriting, Minification and Bundling solution No need to tell RequestReduce where your resources are Your CSS and Javascript can be anywhere - even on an external host RequestReduce finds them at runtime automatically"

"One thing that always annoys me when working on a web app is having to write those inevitable pages full of admin functions some of which are just a single button. When hacking up one such page I had a thought - a plug in library providing a command line for your web app might save me a lot of time. NetBash is what I came up with."

"FubuMVC is a "Front Controller" pattern-style MVC framework designed for use in web applications built on ASP.NET."

"In general, you should avoid building strings of HTML in your applications. There are plenty of template/view engines that are much more suitable for generating dynamic markup. However, there are some situations that require you to build snippets of HTML from code (e.g., view extensions in FubuMVC or HtmlHelper extensions in ASP.NET MVC). HtmlTags is the best way to build those snippets."