Problem Any web application has pages that should be seen by some users and not by others. At the very least, there are administrative pages and public pages. In the past, I’ve always used ad-hoc code when generating pages to determine which links (or tabs, labels etc.) should show up for which user. In ASP.NET [...]
I’ve been reading the very informative ASP.NET MVC 2 In Action. This book contains a lot of information to be aware of if you are using (or planning to use) the MVC framework, however, don’t expect a gentle introduction to starting out in web applications. What’s good: This is a goldmine for finding out [...]
As has been posted on a few other blogs, there are some features of ASP.NET MVC 2 Futures that don’t play nicely together. Two features in particular are the validation (both MS Ajax and JQuery) and the generic form methods. Here’s a (working) example of a very simple form with the plain, non-generic MVC method: [...]