This Saturday (October 10) I'll be presenting at the NoVa Code Camp [http://novacodecamp.org/].  Registration [http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=141207] is still open. I will be presenting "MVC in the Real World".  There are many great sessions [http://novacodecamp.org/RecentCodeCamps/NoVaCodeCamp200902/Sessions/tabid/187/Default.aspx] on the schedule.  Hope to see you there!...

Thanks to everyone who attended my sessions yesterday at Richmond Code Camp.  Both the code and PowerPoint slides are available for download. Download samples for: MVC in the Real World [https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=michelotti&ReleaseId=3288] . Check out the readme.txt file in Solution Items and all SQL scripts for creating the databases. Download samples for: C# 4.0 New Language Features [https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?...

I just found out today that I was awarded the MVP designation from Microsoft in the area of ASP.NET. It has been a very busy 2009 for me, speaking at various user groups and code camps including CMAP [http://www.cmap-online.org/], CapArea [http://www.caparea.net/], RockNUG [http://www.rocknug.org/], SoMDNUG [http://www.somd-dnug.org/], FredNUG [http://frednug.org/], and Richmond Code Camp [http://richmondcodecamp.org/].  I would like to thank all of those user groups for having me present and I...

This Saturday (October 3) I'll be presenting at Richmond Code Camp [http://richmondcodecamp.org/].  Registration [http://tinyurl.com/GoToRCC] is still open. I will be presenting "MVC in the Real World" – Move beyond MVC 101 and dive into aspects of building robust, real-world MVC applications. This demo-heavy presentation will show how to fully unit test the presentation layer with mocking and Dependency Injection.  This session will show the benefits of using Inversion of Control (IoC) contai...

In a previous post, I showed how to submit an AJAX form in MVC with the jQuery Thickbox and the built-in MVC AJAX helpers [http://geekswithblogs.net/michelotti/archive/2009/08/31/mvc-ajax-form-with-ajax.beginform-and-jquery-thickbox.aspx] .  If you read that post first, it will show the complete context for how to simply submit an AJAX form that is being rendered inside a jQuery Thickbox with built-in MVC AJAX helpers.  But what if you want to stick to a pure jQuery solution?  That is also simpl...