ASP.Net MVC

Great article about how modelbinding works in Asp.net MVC and how to write your own moderlbinders.

"An often-asked question on the selenium-users mailing list is how to test Ajax-specific functionality with Selenium. The problem with Ajax testing is that the HTML page under test is modified asynchronously, so a plain Selenium assert or verify command might very well fail because the element being tested has not been created yet by the Ajax call. A quick-and-dirty solution is to put a pause command before the assert, but this is error-prone, since the pause might be not sufficient on a slow machine, while being unnecessarily slow on a faster one."

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MVC3 RadioButtonList Helper

The dynamic stylesheet language. LESS extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and functions. LESS runs on both the client-side (IE 6+, Webkit, Firefox) and server-side, with Node.js.

Alternative AJAX frontend for Asp.Net MVC applications

Simplify dynamic JavaScript UIs by applying the Model-View-View Model (MVVM) pattern.

A simple but effective mini-profiler for ASP.NET MVC

After a mammoth effort by Jarrod Dixon the team's production profiler is now ready for an open source release. http://code.google.com/p/mvc-mini-profiler/ Let me start with a bold claim. Our open-source profiler is perhaps the best and most comprehensive production web page profiler out there for any web platform.

"jQuery throttle / debounce allows you to rate-limit your functions in multiple useful ways. Passing a delay and callback to $.throttle returns a new function that will execute no more than once every delay milliseconds. Passing a delay and callback to $.debounce returns a new function that will execute only once, coalescing multiple sequential calls into a single execution at either the very beginning or end."

" An HttpModule that hooks onto the Response.Filter property of the current request and tries to compress the output, based on what the browser supports"

" The open source HttpCompress library is very easy to incorporate into an ASP.NET web site. First, download the latest version of HttpCompress from the official web site. "

Handy trick to pass extra data to the controler. 

"The AsyncController class enables you to write asynchronous action methods. You can use asynchronous action methods for long-running, non-CPU bound requests. This avoids blocking the Web server from performing work while the request is being processed. A typical use for the AsyncController class is long-running Web service calls."

"In this post I would like to cover a couple of asynchronous patterns that are available in ASP.NET MVC and jQuery as it is used in MVC."

" AsyncController is introduced in ASP.NET MVC 2 while SessionLess controller is introduced in ASP.NET MVC 3. AsyncController allows you to perform long running I/O operation(s) without making your thread idle(i.e., waiting for I/O operations to complete). On the other hand, SessionLess controller allows you to execute multiple requests simultaneously for single user, which otherwise execute multiple requests sequentially due to session synchronization. Understanding these concepts may be easy for you but I have seen a lot of guys become confused on these concepts. In this article, I will show you how to use AsyncController and SessionLess controller in ASP.NET MVC application. I will also compare them and tell you what to use when, where, and the why."

Great article about EF Code first. Looks very much like Active Record on Rails

Hi I was wondering what you think the advantage of EF is, when compared to NHibernate?