In this series of posts, I have concentrated upon creating a truly RESTful web service… it has not been a priority to use the full power of ASP.Net MVC’s extensibility. However, this has resulted in a solution that is too intrusive into ASP.Net MVC. The consequences being, any web service developed with the Shoulders of Giants DLL can be difficult to write unit tests for or extend in other directions… so with this and my previous post, I hope to address this.

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A little while back I reviewed the Rest for ASP.NET MVC SDK that was released by Microsoft WCF team. I liked some of the ideas it contained so promised to bring some of those into our code. Well, I’ve finally started to do that.

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I have been doing most of my ASP.Net MVC RESTful web service development on IIS6 or IIS7. Recently however, I tried it on Windows 7 RTM using IIS7.5. Using the “Classic .Net AppPool” everything worked great. Then I tried the “DefaultAppPool” (i.e. using Integrated Mode). Everything seemed fine… until I wanted to PUT a new resource and DELETE a resource.

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Over the last year I written a whole series of articles looking at creating a RESTful web service. For some time I’ve been meaning to tidy up the DLL that provides the RESTful functionality… and finally I’ve got round to it!

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In my last post I created a wizard using the basic ASP.Net MVC 1. That version of the wizard reduced the Controller’s knowledge of the View to the bare minimum required. In this post I want to try to get the same functionality using the Data Annotations Model Binder Sample. My hope was that using Data Annotations, rather than hand crafted validation, would reduce the need for the controller to understand the details of the model.

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Over the last few weeks I have been creating a new web site using ASP.Net MVC. One area I was unsure as to how to approach was account registration. The default project creates a simple account registration page, but I wanted something more complex… more like a wizard.

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A few days ago, a Rest for ASP.NET MVC SDK was released by the WCF team onto CodePlex. I spotted this very low key release after it was mentioned on Phil Haack’s blog. He asks for feedback on the ideas in the SDK and samples, as many of them are being considered for future releases of the main ASP.Net MVC. So after an initial tyre kicking, I thought I’d look at how hard it would be to migrate my web service to this SDK, what would be the benefits and would I have to make any compromises.

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Recently I created a web page that hosted an iFrame. The contents of the iFrame were served from another domain. That content would use JavaScript to hide and show some HTML elements. As the iFrame’s content changed, I didn’t want scroll bars to appear or some of the content to be hidden (if I applied scrolling="no"). I could have just made sure the iFrame was big enough to contain the maximum content... but I wanted a more dynamic solution that made the iFrame appear more integrated with its parent page. I needed the parent page to adjust the size of the iFrame as the content size changed.

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We’re thinking about putting some of our Microsoft Word documents under source control in our Team Foundation Server. It would be great to be able to compare MS Word documents in the same way we compare source code.

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Well, more accurately, I broke the build because I introduced Rhino Mocks 3.5!

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