Steve Michelotti

My newest course was published yesterday on Pluralsight [http://www.pluralsight-training.net/microsoft/] on KnockoutJS [http://knockoutjs.com/]. The course can be viewed here [http://www.pluralsight-training.net/microsoft/Courses/TableOfContents?courseName=knockout] . It is divided up into 4 modules. The first module gives an introduction to Knockout and shows a "Beyond Hello World" demo. The second module discusses the different types of observables you have in Knockout and demos of each. The...

Thanks to everyone who attending my session on MVC Scaffolding at the CMAP Code Camp [1] this past weekend. PowerPoint and all code samples can be downloaded here [2]....

KnockoutJS [http://knockoutjs.com/] is an awesome MVVM JavaScript data binding framework for building rich user experiences. As sites get more interactive and more presentation logic gets pushed to the client-side, it's important to have rich frameworks which enable these scenarios. The next version of MVC is going to include the Knockout NuGet package in the box. Now is a perfect time to start learning Knockout. As I've been learning Knockout, I've been pleased to discover that, although it c...

I recently had the pleasure of creating a course for Pluralsight [http://www.pluralsight-training.net/microsoft/] on MVC Scaffolding [http://www.pluralsight-training.net/microsoft/courses/tableofcontents?courseName=mvc-scaffolding] . For the next 24-hours the course will be completely free! Click here [http://www.pluralsight-training.net/microsoft/courses/tableofcontents?courseName=mvc-scaffolding] to view the course now. I've divided the course up into three modules. In the first module, I...

I was recently asked to review Studio for Wijmo MVC [http://www.componentone.com/SuperProducts/StudioMVCWijmo/] by Component One [http://www.componentone.com/] and, overall, I am impressed. There are 2 major components of this. The first is Wijmo Complete which is a collection of over 30 UI widgets (very similar to jQuery UI [http://jqueryui.com/]). The second is Wijmo Scaffolding for MVC which builds upon the scaffolding that was released as part of the MVC 3 Tools Update (note: is does not bui...