Posted on March 15th, 2007%
There’s a little flurry of activity going around comparing Castle MonoRail to the Web Client Software Factory (WCSF). Here’s a synopsis.
- David Hayden, who admittedly is very familiar with WCSF and not very familiar with MonoRail, touts the future of WCSF and the concerns about the lack of resources working on MonoRail in order for it to compete long-term.
- Scott Bellware talks about evaluating MonoRail for an enterprise application, and he mentions his horrible experience setting up and comprehending WCSF.
- Hammett, one of the key Castle Project people who admittedly is not familiar with WCSF, talks about the need for WCSF to compete with MonoRail, not the other way around.
Where do I stand? Before answering, I need to explain my history with web development, ASP.Net, and MonoRail.
I started doing web development in the late 1990′s coding by hand and using ColdFusion on the server-side. I migrated to ASP and, ultimately, to ASP.Net, as most people did.
Since the beginning, I’ve had a love/hate relationship with ASP.Net. I love the .Net Framework, C#, and Visual Studio .Net. I hate ViewState, complex web controls that do unpredictable things, and the difficulty injecting JavaScript into ASP.Net web pages (id="ctl00___ctl00___ctl00_ctl00_bhcr_t___TitleBarSearchText", anyone?).
When I stumbled across MonoRail some time in 2006, I liked what I read, but didn’t have the time to explore it further. Towards the middle of 2006 I was working on my own Model-View-Presenter web architecture that was simple but effective, and even started transitioning my only claim to fame, CSFBL, to it. Then, I decided to give MonoRail a try.
I never turned back.
. . . → Read More: MonoRail vs Web Client Software Factory (WCSF)
Posted on March 7th, 2007%
Back in late 2006, I modified Microsoft’s CSS Friendly ASP.Net 2.0 Control Adapters to be distributable as a single DLL. Since that time, the code I wrote was downloaded from this web site, and everything seemed good, at least until the server crashed. After being prodded by a few people in the ASP.Net community, I moved this little project over to CodePlex. Before doing so, I checked to make sure this was OK with Scott Guthrie, the grand poohbah of ASP.Net at Microsoft. (You’ve got to cover your basis!)
Anyway, today I read a post on the ASP.Net forums stating that Microsoft OKs community development of the CSS Friendly Control Adapters. In short, this is a good thing for the users of this product, for reasons that are explained in that thread, and it looks like I’ll be more involved with the ongoing development of these adapters in the future. It’s also nice to see your efforts . . .
→ Read More: Microsoft OKs community development of CSS Friendly Control Adapters
Posted on November 24th, 2006%
Last week, I released a compiled version of Microsoft’s CSSFriendly ASP.Net 2.0 Control Adapters (“CSSFriendly”). Since that post, the “1.0″ RTM version of the adapters were released. I just finished porting the latest release to a compiled assembly.
Instructions for installing and using the compiled adapters, and download links, can be found in the Projects section of this web site.
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→ Read More: Compiled version of ASP.Net CSSFriendly Control Adapters (RTM 1.0)
Posted on November 16th, 2006%
UPDATE 11/24/06: The 1.0 version of the adapters was released, so I updated the compiled distribution. Read about the update here.
UPDATE: Added a link to download just the DLL at the bottom of the entry, and rewrote some of the “implementation” steps to make them a bit clearer.
I’ve been following the progress of the CSSFriendly ASP.Net 2.0 Control Adapters (“CSSAdapters”) since they were initially launched some 6+ months ago. The team has continually worked on revising them (with a little help from me), and the latest release (Beta 3.0) seems to be something that we can live and work with comfortably.
One thing I’ve hated about the adapters is the implementation, which basically involves the following steps:
Add a file to the App_Browsers directory.
Add a folder of JavaScript files.
Add a folder of CSS files.
Add a bunch of files to the App_Code directory
Add some
tags to the section of your web pages (to import the stylesheets and handle some . . .
→ Read More: Compiled version of ASP.Net CSSAdapters (Beta 3.0)
Posted on October 30th, 2006%
Yesterday, while starting up my PC out of hibernate mode (an activity done about 250 times before), after entering my username and password, Windows stared at me with a blank blue screen and a task bar (i.e. the desktop color and nothing else). Windows was certainly doing something, because the disk was thrashing. This went on for about five minutes. No activity on my part (CTL-ALT-DEL, CTL-SHIFT-ESC for Task Manager, etc.) brought about a response during those five minutes. After banging my keyboard countless times (it’s amazing I don’t break more than one a year), Windows suddenly sprang into service as if nothing out of the ordinary happened.
Can someone please tell me what the #&^$&#^ Windows was doing during those five minutes, and if it was such a mission-critical operation that NO OTHER ACTIVITIES could be taken while they ran, why there is no notice in the event log? Heck, a progress bar or meaningless popup message would have been nice.
Today, . . .
→ Read More: What the #&$^# is Windows doing this time? (and other Microsoft gripes)
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