MVC 2 includes an attribute for model metadata called the HiddenInput attribute. The typical usage of the attribute looks like this (line #3 below): public class PersonViewModel { [HiddenInput(DisplayValue = false)] public int? Id { get; set; } public string FirstName { get; set; } public string LastName { get; set; } } So if you displayed your PersonViewModel with Html.EditorForModel() or Html.EditorFor(m => m.Id), the framework would detect the [HiddenInput] attribute metad...

In my presentation this past weekend at NoVa Code Camp, a member of the audience caught my final demo on video. In this demo, I combine multiple new features from MVC 2 to show how to build apps quickly with MVC 2. These features include: * Template Helpers / Editor Templates * Server-side/Client-side Validation * Model Metadata for View Model * HTML Encoding Syntax * Dependency Injection * Abstract Controllers * Custom T4 Templates * Custom MVC Visual Studio 2010 Code Snippets The pro...

Thanks to everyone who attended my MVC 2 presentation at NOVA Code Camp. The code samples and PowerPoint can be downloaded here: Top 10 Ways MVC 2 Will Boost Your Productivity [http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=michelotti&ReleaseId=4333] ....

Microsoft just released the Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools extension and it is awesome. A summary of all the features can be found here [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lisa/archive/2010/06/08/visual-studio-2010-pro-power-tools-released-today.aspx] and it is available in the Visual Studio Gallery here [http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/d0d33361-18e2-46c0-8ff2-4adea1e34fef] . There are a bunch of great features but, in my opinion, the best one is the replacement for the Add Refere...

ILMerge [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=22914587-b4ad-4eae-87cf-b14ae6a939b0&displaylang=en] is a utility which allows you the merge multiple .NET assemblies into a single binary assembly more for convenient distribution. Recently we ran into problems when attempting to use ILMerge on a .NET 4 project. We received the error message: **An exception occurred during merging: Unresolved assembly reference not allowed: System.Core. at System.Compiler.Ir2md.GetAssembly...