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Professional ASP.NET MVC 3 on Amazon.com

I started reading this book to see what was new in MVC 3, I’ve been developing with ASP.NET MVC 2 for a while and now I finally had the opportunity to start a new project with MVC 3. Anyway, the book is really good and highly recommended for those getting their hands dirty with MVC 3.

The book goes from basic to some really advanced topics, it doesn’t only explain how to extend but also shows how the MVC 3 framework works inside.

I would spend a little more time on the unit testing chapter, I think it was a little poor on content but there’s a lot of content out there that you can go to get more info.

UPDATE: You can get LESS working on your .NET projects easier by using the Nuget package dotless.

This week I’ve trying out LESS Css, it’s a great tool for creating dynamic css. Christopher Owen, Erik van Brakel, Daniel Hoelbling and James Foster created a version of the LESS compliler for .NET, but there are no instructions on how to implement it with ASP.NET MVC. So, here it goes:

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I struggled a little bit with image uploading in Asp.net MVC so I decided to write a post about it so I can help someone.
The idea is to use the MVC binding capabilities to make this work well. (more…)

I’ve been working more with C# for a while. It’s hard to admit (Microsoft stuff, you know) but I’m starting to like it. So I will do some posting about some cool stuff that I find while programming, it will maybe help you out. (more…)