In my continued exploration of C# 4.0, I wanted to put together a simple example of using the C# 4.0 "dynamic" keyword in conjunction with IronRuby [http://www.ironruby.net/].  I've been shocked at how difficult it was to find code samples on the internet that actually do this.  With much persistence (and some significant pointing in the right direction from Justin Etheredge [http://www.codethinked.com/]) I got my simple example working.  Given that there aren't many great examples of calling Ir...

The MVC framework does not come with a built-in RadioButtonList [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.radiobuttonlist.aspx] comes standard in ASP.NET web forms.  The MVC Futures assembly (which can be downloaded here [http://aspnet.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=24471]) does come with this HtmlHelper but there are some issues with it including the ones described here [http://elijahmanor.com/2009/03/25/ASPNETMVCHtmlRadioButtonListBlues.aspx] by...

Last year when MVC was still in CTP, I blogged about using MVC ComponentController and ViewUserControls [http://geekswithblogs.net/michelotti/archive/2008/07/06/mvc-componentcontroller-vs.-viewusercontrol.aspx] to render widgets.  When MVC CTP4 was released, the ComponentController was eliminated from the framework and the RenderAction() helper method was introduced.  Rob Conery has a good post that discussed that here [http://blog.wekeroad.com/blog/asp-net-mvc-preview-4-componentcontroller-is...

Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation on WCF 3.5 REST services last night at SOMD NUG. The link to download both the code and power point is here [https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=michelotti&ReleaseId=2635] .  It also includes the SQL script for creating the database....

Tomorrow I will be giving a presentation at Southern Maryland .NET User Group [http://www.somd-dnug.org/] on WCF 3.5 REST.  This demo-heavy presentation will cover both building and consuming WCF 3.5 REST services. We will dive into many of the new APIs available in the WCF REST Starter Kit with a nod to new features on the horizon in WCF 4.0. Consuming REST services will be explored through a pure AJAX jQuery client as well as a Silverlight client. The session will also give a brief introducti...