ASP.NET MVC Preview 4

ScottGu finally made it official after a long break (he was busy with his new born)... Preview 4 is relasing end of this week
Its a real good improvement with error filter, authorize filter,AccountController, and caching.

The authorize filter is more like declarative security model which lets you use attributes and filter actions(method) and classes based on your role. AccountController uses built in Asp.Net Membership provider and manage user credentials. You can also use your own custom logic and replace user account class with AccountController class.

Error Filter lets you display a friendly error page/response in case of exceptions.
One can also specify specific exception types like SQLException, NullReferenceException etc.

***ASP.NET Dynamic Data support will be included in MVC by end of Summer ***

Very cool high level features to use with ASP.MVC. The next previews will contain form validation, wizards to automatically create views and test class correspoding to a Controller. WAIT and Keep checking on my blog for upcoming releases.

ASP.NET MVC Preview 3

Preiview 3 has been released for the ASP.NET MVC framework.
Scott Gu gives details here

Gacutil for Remote Machine

First version of Gacutil remote has been released. It manages a remote computer's GAC even if it has no gacutil. It has following features:

Relies on psexec
Requires administrative priveleges on the remote computer
Installs / uninstalls an assembly to a remote computer
Retrieves whole GAC

Error Handling and Custom identity impersonation are missing in this release.

http://tinyurl.com/6d6gnw



source: Codeplex

Nice Deployment utility

A Great utility from Ted Pattison:
STSDEV is a proof-of-concept utility application which demonstrates how to generate Visual Studio project files and solution files to facilitate the development and deployment of templates and components for the SharePoint 2007 platform including Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). Note that the current version of the stsdev utility only supports creating projects with the C# programming language.

http://tinyurl.com/5kzqxr

Manager Approval WF

SharePoint sequential workflow built in Visual Studio 2008, written in C#. Builds upon the Approval workflow sample from the MOSS 2007 SDK to extend the out-of-the-box Approval workflow template. It uses a custom InfoPath Association form that contains all the functionality of the original, PLUS it also asks for the name of a User type column in the target list. At run-time, the workflow will attempt to retrieve the SharePoint user object from that column, look up that user's manager in Active Directory, and use the manager as the Approver. If a manager is not found, it uses the default Approver list specified in the Association form.

http://tinyurl.com/5w5ndz


Source: Codeplex.com

SharePoint Content Migrator

ContentMigrator is a Windows Forms application with powerful features for tagging and uploading multiple documents to SharePoint libraries. Written in C#, the application utilizes the SharePoint Object Model and is intended to run on a server in a SharePoint farm. You simply select a site collection, document library and content type, select your files and apply metadata tags.

http://tinyurl.com/6b3lnx



Source: Codeplex.com

Timer WebPart released

Countdown timer web part with auto-refresh capability. Uses WSPBuilder to deploy the web part as a feature.

http://tinyurl.com/5w8emf










Source: Codeplex.com