MVC Attributes - ReadOnly vs Editable vs Bind & the DefaultModelBinder

I’ve been learning quite a lot about the DefaultModelBInder and it’s internal behaviour because of the complexities involved with some of the model binding in Umbraco v5 and wanted to point out the be…

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Developing a plugin framework in ASP.NET MVC with medium trust

I’ve recently spent quite a lot of time researching and prototyping different ways to create a plugin engine in ASP.NET MVC3 and primarily finding a nice way to load plugins (DLLs) in from outside of…

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HtmlHelper Table methods

I was hoping that these were built already but couldn’t see any descent results with a quick Google search so figured I’d just write my own… these are now part of the Umbraco v5 codebase. Here’s 2 Htm…

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Umbraco Jupiter Plugins - Part 2 - Routing

This is the second blog post in a series of posts relating to building plugins for Umbraco v5 (Jupiter). Related Posts: Umbraco Jupiter Plugins – Part 1 Disclaimer This post is about developi…

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Native MVC support in Umbraco coming very soon!

Its been a while since writing a blog post! … but that’s only because I can never find the time since I’m still gallivanting around the globe :P But this post is about something very exciting, and I’m…

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Umbraco v5 Surface Controller Forms

This post will show you how to create a form in Umbraco v5 using Surface Controllers. The information in this post assumes that you are familiar with Surface Controllers (see this previous post if not…

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Multi targeting a single .Net project to build for different framework versions

Consider this scenario: I have a project that relies on ASP.Net MVC and currently this project is built against the .Net framework 4.0 and MVC 4 I want to support MVC 5 for this project To support…

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Sharing views between specific controllers

There’s no native way in MVC to share views between controllers without having to put those views in the ‘Shared’ folder which can be annoying especially if you have an inherited controller class stru…

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MVC in Umbraco v4

After the announcement of discontinuing Umbraco v5 development during this years Code Garden 2012 conference, the biggest question seemed to be: What will happen with ASP.Net MVC and Umbraco. We held…

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Umbraco Jupiter Plugins - Part 4 - Editors

This is the fourth blog post in a series of posts relating to building plugins for Umbraco v5 (Jupiter). This post will show you how to get started with building an editor. An Editor is the term used…

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