Using KnockoutJS with SignalR in ASP.NET MVC

KnockoutJS is a MVVM implementation for JavaScript written by Steve Sanderson, in my opinion the author of the best ASP.NET MVC textbooks available. Simply put it lets you bind a JavaScript object model to your HTML UI using a Read more

A MongoDB Tutorial using C# and ASP.NET MVC

In this post I'm going to create a simple ASP.NET MVC website for a simple blog that uses MongoDB and the offical 10gen C# driver. MongoDB is no NOSQL database that stores information as Binary JSON (BSON) in documents. I Read more

Linq To SQL Tutorial

Check out some of my other Linq to SQL posts: EntityBase Inheritance Modifiers with SQLMetal Linq to SQL with WCF Services Linq to SQL Framework (Repository/Business wrapper) ObjectDataSource binding with server side paging and sorting Load Options Generic Framework using reflection This is a basic tutorial for Read more

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Creating strongly typed wrappers around untyped dictionaries in ASP.NET using the Castle DictionaryAdapter

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Joe in ASP.NET, C#, IoC, MVC | Leave a comment

Often when writing web applications you find yourself writing strongly typed wrapper classes around untyped dictionaries, such as Session, QueryString or even Web.Config Application Settings.

This is quite a tedious task, but using the Castle DictionaryAdapter this is all wrapped up nicely, and all you need to do is create an interface.