Controller Scoped Model Binding in ASP.NET Core
Want to avoid [FromBody] attributes everywhere? Don’t want to use [ApiController] strict conventions? Don’t want to apply IInputFormatter’s globally?…
How to register MVC controllers shipped with a class library in ASP.NET Core
In many cases you’ll want to ship MVC controllers, possibly views or taghelpers, etc… as part of your class library. To do this correctly you’ll want to add your assembly to ASP.NET’s “Application…
Need to remove an auto-routed controller in Umbraco?
Umbraco will auto-route some controllers automatically. These controllers are any MVC SurfaceControllers or WebApi UmbracoApiController types discovered during startup. There might be some cases where…
ClientDependency 1.8 released
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Model binding with FromServices in ASP.Net 5
Here’s a pretty nifty feature I found in ASP.Net 5 – you can construct your model during model binding with IoC without any additional work. This is available on the dev branch on GitHub and is based…
ASP.Net 5 Re-learning a few things (part 2)
This is part 2 of a series of posts about some fundamental changes in ASP.Net 5 that we’ll all need to re-learn (or un-learn!) Part 1: http://shazwazza.com/post/aspnet-5-re-learning-a-few-things-part-…
Custom MVC routes within the Umbraco pipeline
A while ago I wrote a post on how to do custom MVC routing in Umbraco, though the end result wasn’t quite ideal. There were a few tricks required and It wasn’t perfect since there were problems with r…
MVC Controllers as plugins with MEF and Autofac
Disclaimer This blog posts talks about Umbraco v5 (Jupiter), however since the state of the codebase is in it’s infancy, the details about Umbraco v5 in this article may not be accurate once Umbraco…
Binding a custom property with model binders
This post was imported from FARMCode.org which has been discontinued. These posts now exist here as an archive. They may contain broken links and images.In ASP.Net MVC Model Binders are great but what…
Custom MVC ModelBinder with Complex Models/Objects/Interfaces using built in MVC Validation
I’ve been creating some cool stuff using ASP.Net MVC 3 lately and came across a situation where I’d like to have quite a complex model/object bound to an Action on my Controller based on a set of post…