Elsehemy Junior on .Net

jBlogMvc : part 3 Themable View Engine, Archive and Filtering by year, month and day

Amr Elsehemy — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:13:03 GMT

NOTE: In this series I build a blogengine using ASP.NET MVC and jQuery from scratch in order to learn more about these new technologies. If you haven't read the first post in this series, I would encourage you do to that first, or check out the jBlogMvc category. You can also always subscribe to the feeds.

jBlogMvc is converted to be used on ASP.NET MVC Beta 1 if you haven't downloaded it yet you can find it here, to read about the changes and additions in the beta 1 I do recommend reading ScottGu's asp net mvc beta1 announcement if you haven't already read it.

This part had witnessed a big change in project structure hence the new release of the beta1 and building a themable folder structure as shown in the pic.

Continue this article here.

jBlogMvc : part 2 Editing, Deleting, Paging Posts and Rss feeds

Amr Elsehemy — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:08:57 GMT

NOTE: In this series I build a blogengine using ASP.NET MVC and jQuery from scratch in order to learn more about these new technologies. If you haven't read the first post in this series, I would encourage you do to that first, or check out the jBlogMvc category. You can also always subscribe to the feeds.

What about new features this part will cover :

Configuration is saved in the database.
Managing Posts (Editing, Deleting).
Posts are now paged.
Some jquery magic is used.

So, lets have a tour in the project one more time.

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jBlogMvc : part 1 Building the Administration Area

Amr Elsehemy — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:54:48 GMT

NOTE: In this series I build a blogengine using ASP.NET MVC and jQuery from scratch in order to learn more about these new technologies. If you haven't read the first post in this series, I would encourage you do to that first, or check out the jBlogMvc category. You can also always subscribe to the feeds.

In this part of the series, I build the administration area of the blog engine I am building using the ASP.NET MVC and jQuery, in this part I will cover more basic features used in any blog engine, so lets get started.

What will part 1 cover ?

Basically it will cover how to build an administration area, I chose the wordpress blog engine and tried to clone its structure and some look and feel of it, the operations I will implement in this part will be :

Visitor
- Login -- I will just reuse the code available with the default project template for membership stuff.
Admin
- Logout
- Add Post

The stuff I collected and used all over the net from blogs and used in this part can be summarized in the following,

Using membership for validation
Using the Authorize attribute
Using Model Binders
jQuery Client validation
Small validation framework for business rules and server side validation.(originally written by scott gu)
Using nested master pages in ASP.NET MVC
Applying the "Post/Redirect/Get" (aka PRG) pattern.
Applying some css to make it look nice (based on wordpress blogengine admin layout)

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WiXing Around

Amr Elsehemy — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:24:00 GMT

While having my first steps towards learning WiX v.3, The first step was to read some of the tutorials over here, then after downloading the samples I started exploring them to learn more. In my very first sample (named SampleWebDir) almost the simplest one although I had some troubles because the samples were built using the WiX v2 while I am trying to build it using v3. Simple changes had to be done inorder to make it built:

Change the Wix Schema from
xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2003/01/wi'
to xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi'
Add Reference to the WixIIsExtension dll
Now inlcude the IIS namespace within the wxs file to be as :
<wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi" xmlns:iis="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/IIsExtension">
Prefix the web elements with the iis: to be like this
<iis:WebVirtualDir>
<iis:WebApplication>
<iis:WebSite>
<iis:WebAddress>
To remove warnings:
- Add an Upgrade Code to the Product element
- Remove the LongName key/value in the File Element is now depreacted.
- Remove the Package Id is has been deprecated.
To remove all the localization errors put assigned a culture to the project (right click the project node)>>(Properties)>>(Linker tab)>>(put the Culture as: en-US)for example.

Note:The steps up there are when using votive on visual studio and were tested on windows vista running iis7.