As an exercise to test the news bits on ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview 3, I have been building a simple application that manages information about books, I called it the BooksStore, it has CRUD operations for authors, publishers, books, catalog of books, some security, authentication and authorization, using LINQ to SQL Classes as the layer to access data and only the use of FormsAuthentication and the MembershipProvider for SQLServer.
Above a screenshot of the catalog it shows a summary of the book that includes the title, authors, publisher, number of pages and price, the title is a link to the “Show” action of the Book Controller for show detailed information of the book.
Also I have a Rss action of the Home controller that renders a rss channel
Now with the new preview 4 of ASP.NET MVC, I have to change the functionality for user access, with this new preview an Account controller is by default on the template, this is a quickstart for us.
Update: Here is the code
Visual Studio 2008 allows to built a project targeting a specific framework (2.0, 3.0 and 3.5) this feature is called multi-targeting which is great when we have to maintain an old project, but unfortunately VS2008 doesn’t work by default with web projects that contains AJAX 1.0, the version of the controls(ScriptManager, ScriptManagerProxy, etc) for AJAX Extensions is 3.0, on this state only the AJAX Control Toolkit v3.0 is supported.
In order to add the AJAX Control Toolkit v.1.0 to the Toolbox and can work with projects that support AJAX 1.0 you must perform the following tasks:
- Download the AJAX Extensions for ASP.NET from here and install it.
- Add the controls on System.Web.Extensions.dll to the Toolbox, to do that, right click on AJAXExtensions tab on the Toolbox, choose ‘Choose items’ the Choose Toolbox Items dialog appears, click on Browse and search for the Extensions library usually installed on /ProgramFiles/Microsoft ASP.NET/ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions, click OK is expected to have to instances of the controls but is not, don’t worry is OK. VS loads the correct version of the extensions according to the configuration of the project.
- Create a new toolbox tab for AJAX Control Toolkit v1.0 and for version 3.0, download it from CodePlex, compile it and add to the toolbox as in step2.
Is everything is right you must see
and for the toolkit something similar
Unfortunately when you create a web project targeting the .net framework 2.0 the web.config file does not contain everything necessary to develop with AJAX, the sample config file on the install directory of the AJAX Extensions 1.0 must be added manually to the project, with projects on framework 3.5 there is not such problem.
UPDATE: The phantom post is gone, thank you wordpress.
I had changed the style of my blog and when Windows Live Writer update the style it had left a temporary post, that appears when navigates to my blog but does not appear on the admin part, so I can’t delete it. I don’t what is happening!!
