Sean Lynch

As an exercise to figure out socket programming I have been messing around with creating an SVN client library to use with DevExamples.com, well actually a generic SC client library that would allow me to change what repository site I was working against, SVN just seemed like the simplest of them at the moment. However, [...]

Since administration was the next part I wanted to work on. I decided that for the moment I just want a little login for in the upper corner like I decided to put the login screen view logic into a user control, and added the following user control named Login.ascx and placed it into the [...]

Its amazing how fast things can be done when not fighting bad assumptions. In this case it was that my admin URLs needed to use the nice descriptive URLs, instead of just /[Controller]/[Action]/[id] type routing. Once I realized I was making things overly complicated I, I ended up with a set of routing functions that [...]

My first thought is, I really wish I could use this at work, but it is working nicely so far for my rewrite of my web site. Writing Classic ASP style again is taking a little getting used to again though, the visual preview from the designers made styling the page a lot nicer. The [...]

After working on the login usercontrol, I decided that I wanted to add similar functionality to the navigation sections of the site for accounts/roles that didn’t get ads displayed. So I needed a standard way to put dynamic sections into a page. I liked the syntax used by the form HtmlHelper methods, so decided to [...]

It turned out to be a lot easier to work around not being able to override the route parsing method then I had thought it would be last night. Though when they allow me to override that method I will be changing over. By setting up the following routes I was able to get almost [...]

I finally got around to updating the website to the MVC preview 2, and ran into a couple of things. TagBuilder being internal. While the implementation of it CreateInputTag, CreateTag and CreateAttributeList. The removal of .ToAttributeList() was actually what made me go looking for this. The HtmlExtensionUtility extension methods would have been nice to have [...]