iPhone 4 Tips and Tricks

iPhone 4 Tips and Tricks

The iPhone 4′s operating system represents a significant improvement on earlier versions of Apple’s smartphone operating system. It’s also got a new name – iOS – signifying the importance of the iPad alongside the iPhone. And what’s more, iOS 4 is available to users of the iPhone 3GS, third-gen iPod touch and 3G too (albeit [...]

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Our HowTo’s: Some iTunes Tips

Our HowTo’s: Some iTunes Tips

Sometimes the solution to a problem is right in front of you. You just have to take the time to notice it—or at least find out about it. Such was the case for me with two separate iTunes-related matters. The missing artist I connected my iPhone to iTunes and went to the Artists listing in [...]

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Microsoft Announces a Final Release of ASP.Net MVC 2

By Alexandro, March 7th, 2010,in Microsoft »Tags: , | Comments Off

Microsoft Announces a Final Release of ASP.Net MVC 2

MVC v2 will be available for Visual Studio 2008/Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with ASP.Net 3.5, said Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president in the Microsoft Developer Division. A release candidate for ASP.Net MVC 2 was offered in the previous month.

“ASP.Net MVC 2 is the next important update of ASP.Net MVC. It is a compatible update to ASP.Net MVC 1 — so all the knowledge, skills, code, and extensions you already have with ASP.Net MVC continue to work and apply going forward,” Guthrie said. “Like the first release, we are also shipping the source code for ASP.Net MVC under an OSI-compliant open source license.”

MVC 2 includes the following features: improved Visual Studio tooling support, strongly typed HTML helpers, and enhanced model validation support across client and server. Other improvements include auto-scaffold UI helpers with template customization and support for splitting large applications into “areas.”

Support also is included for JavaScript validation in the browser. In addition, developers can use DataAnnotation support in the .Net Framework to declaratively define and add validation rules to business objects and properties. Additional capabilities include asynchronous controllers support for executing long-running tasks in parallel, support for rendering subsections of a page/site using Html.RenderAction, and new helper functions, utilities, and API enhancements.

The MVC framework, according to Microsoft, encourages developers to maintain a separation of concerns among the responsibilities of applications, including UI logic via the view, user-input handling using the controller, and domain logic using the model. ASP.Net MVC applications can be tested using techniques such as test-driven development. The framework is built on ASP.Net 3.5 Service Pack 1, enabling developers to leverage features such as authentication and authorization, profile settings, and localization.

Version 2 can be installed side-by-side with ASP.Net MVC 1, so applications built with Version 1 can run on the same computer as applications built with Version 2, Guthrie said.