So, I want potential clients to have to enter the least amount of info possible to get an account, to that end, I really don’t see the benefit of a username and email address, I’d rather just use the email address. Pretty easy, edit the Register.cshtml to remove all traces of a ‘username’ field… Edit the controller so that it now reads: model.UserName = model.Email; if (ModelState.IsValid) { /*...*/ } F5 and … no Hmmm, turns out the ModelState isn’t valid, and that’s down to the fact that I’ve left ......

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Structurally, I have 3 projects, the site, the EF database and the randomizer. The randomizer uses entities from the EF database, so all is good on that front. So, first cut, add a method to my Controller called Randomize, which takes in one of the EF entities: public ActionResult Randomize(TableB tableB) { /*...*/ } I’ve even given it an [HttpPost] attribute, now, I’m not anyway sure this is right, time will tell right? Anyhews, simple method: [HttpPost] public ActionResult Randomize(TableB tableB) ......

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So, my excursion in the web world continues… One of the issues I have coming from silverlight / wpf is that I’m very used to the XAML, MVVM approach to developing, I can knock up a passable interface in XAML in very little time (note, I didn’t say a good interface), but I really don’t know how to do this in CSS.. OK, not totally true, I have a rough guess, I have played with things like Firebug, and modified existing css in the past, but the problem with that, is that I’m just tinkering. With this ......

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OOook, those who know me, or have read my blog probably have a pretty good idea that I’m a silverlight, wpf, wcf, c#, xamly kinda guy. I’ve never really done anything webby, the closest I’ve gotten is doing a bit of backend stuff, well, times change, and quite frankly I wanted to do something new… soooo I’ve opted to go down the MVC route, for two main reasons – 1, I figured I may as well learn a good framework, 2, Matt Abbott told me that MVC lets you get dirty with HTML, and that’s one of the things ......

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