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general musing about .NET and related technologies

Dynamic Lookup in C# 4

04-Feb-08

Charlie Calvert's Community Blog : Future Focus I: Dynamic Lookup: ""
Charlie Calvert is discussing a new feature in C# called dynamic lookup
The next version of Visual Studio will provide a common infrastructure that will enable all .NET languages, including C#, to optionally resolve names in a program at runtime instead of compile time. We call [...]

Using the ASP.NET MVC framework with Visual Web Developer Express

10-Dec-07

If you try to use the new ASP.NET MVC framework with Visual Web Developer Express, there are some manual steps you have to take in order to get up and running.
Select "New Web Site" and pick "ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Web Site".
The example web.config I saw added the following lines in the "system.web"/"pages" section. But [...]

What do you want out of a framework?

08-Oct-07

Had an interesting discussion with blowmage (Mike Moore) over Twitter. I said that having the "param1/param2" pattern in the ASP.NET MVC made me itchy from a security standpoint. He replied.

Eh, just don't add them to the URL. The ASP.NET MVC assumes you know what you are doing. I'm sick of frameworks babysitting me.

I replied:

and yet [...]

member variable values in the querystring == security risk?

08-Oct-07

There is a lot of emphasis in the web development world on making urls "pretty" and, more importantly, discoverable. While there isn't anything wrong with wanting urls that human beings can read and understand, web developers need to understand that the querystring is an entry point into your application if you are passing values in [...]