MvcHelper code
Helper code for ASP.NET MVC projects
Inventions I wish I’d thought of
Adding a prompt option to Html.Select in ASP.NET MVC
Digging around the source code to the ASP.NET MVC Source Refresh, I discovered a useful extension to the Html.Select helper method.
Say you want a select dropdown with a NULL case, which instructs the user to make a selection.
Eg: You want your first option to be: ==Select==
To do so, call Html.Select with a htmlAttribute of prompt=”==Select==”
Like:
<%=Html.Select((“Quote.ClientId”), ViewData.Clients, “Name”,”Id”, ViewData.Quote.ClientId,0,false,new {prompt=”==Select==”})%>
alt.vs.team.system
Some thoughts on alternatives to the Visual Studio Team System for building webapps:
- Requirement gathering
- I like Axure (axure.com) for HTML prototyping ideas, and Visio is okay for architecture diagrams
- Code editing
- VS Pro + Resharper is pretty good. One of the best “step though debuggers” I’ve used
- Source control
- Subversion + TortoiseSVN. Any played with Git? Is there a good Git GUI tool?
- Continuous Integration
- Jetbrains TeamCity
- Issue tracking / project website
- I quite like Trac – wiki, milestones, good SVN integration. Have to maintain Python app though.
- O/R mapper
- NHibernate? DataSets? LINQtoSQL? What do you use?
- TDD / BDD
- ASP.NET MVC looks like its going in the right direction; but still early days
- nUnit / mbUnit / VS built-in? Is there anything that comes close to rSpec in the Rails world for elegance?
- Mocking frameworks? Moq has a nice syntax – most of the others seem overly complex (record/replay?!)
- TestRunner? www.gallio.org looks like a good start, but still early days
- Functional testing? Selenium? WatiN?
- Continuous Integration server? Is there anything prettier than CruiseControl?
- Load testing?
- Logging
- Log4Net>
- Monitoring
- Current favourite is Webperform
- Support email handing
- SupportSuite from QualityUnit has a nice Gmail style interface + KB
