Yesterday we had the pleasure to present at TechDays 2012, with a session named “Windows 8 for Web Developers”. The topic of the presentation was how to develop Win8 Metro applications using HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3. Thanks to all of you that attended the session – we hope you enjoyed it as much as we [...]

Introduction The choice of client side MV* framework ain’t an easy one. And fairly often a new one comes along. Among the usual suspects we find frameworks like Backbone, Knockout and Spine. In this post we’ll setup a playground for another client framework. Batman. This using Visual Studio and ASP.NET Web API. Batman is a [...]

Introduction Many popular client MV* frameworks lean on the convention of an HTTP API of resources. But in a world of with many different approaches ex Sockets, Hyper Media APIs, this model doesn’t  always fit. Backbone.CQRS is an extension for backbone that provides CQRS integration client side. This enables backbone to fit with a CQRS [...]

Recently the EF migrations package reached version 0.8 beta. The goal is to include this in the upcoming EF release.  Today EF code first has a simple model of initializers. This solves simple scenarios when developing and changing model or deploying a brand new instance. Migrations continues the story, to handle just that. Migrations. Change [...]

In this post we’ll highlight a feature in the MEF 2 preview 4, that by convention registers parts in our mvc application. This so we can use it for DI scenarios. Why? What the we also found was that applications using MEF for extensibility would also use it for internal composition, a-la IoC. From Nicholas [...]

In this post we’ll take a look at two quite new things. JSViews and the MVCHaack prototype, in a simple scenario in which we’ll update multiple records in an mvc app. First what is what. Intro JsViews, is the next generation of jQuery templates and data link, divided in two parts JsRender and JsViews. On [...]

Recently, Jayway hosted the seminar “HTML5 & MVC3″ in Malmö and Stockholm. We also visited the SweNUG Linköping group and held our presentation there. In this post, we will give you links to some of the topics we covered. The presentation was first delivered on Techdays 2011, and we recommend you to look at that [...]

During the last two days of TechDays 2011 in Örebro, with the tagline ‘the Cloud story’, the term HTML5 was as frequently mentioned by speakers on some tracks as the word cloud was in other. Team .NET Web was represented by Gustaf (@gustaf_nk), Per (@per_okvist) and Karl (@herradriansson), with a session about our views on [...]

In this blog post I will introduce you to some basic functions of the Caliburn.Micro framework, along sharing the result of a small lab using it with a common Pivot scenario. Filtering. Introduction First, what is Caliburn Micro ? It´s a lightweight MVVM framework, with support for WP7 specific features as TombStoning, Launcher, Choosers,  a [...]

Thanks to everyone who came to the seminar last week!

As promised, you’ll find the slides and demos attached to this post and some additional links.