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New Post: Requirements

wii_holly — Sun, 24 May 2009 03:29:08 GMT

wish u were succeed! and hope u can share ur sourcecode and design.

New Post: Requirements

mabraham1 — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:23:46 GMT

I'm interested in a CMS for ASP.NET MVC. Where can I find some proof-of-concept code that I can try?

regards,

mabraham1

New Post: Current development

whatupe — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:11:37 GMT

I see that this project is under development, but I just wanted to see if that is current or not. The latest source from early this year seems to indicate that the new ASP.NET MVC framework is being used, and so I'm wondering if this project is still on, how it will differ from the newly released Oxite (http://oxite.codeplex.com/), and other projects like N2 (http://n2cms.com/).

New Post: Menu Widget

ChanceUSC — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:15:08 GMT

ive been thinking about the menu widget and I've been asking myself a question.. once a page is created, should it automatically be added to any lists that contain the collection it belongs to?

To answer that, I considered the main concerns when dealing with menus and the different approaches we could take. I came up with essentially two possibilities: a pure menu widget and a list widget.

Pure menu widget
Two approaches that I see for this is either to attach a "menu" flag to the page and when generating the list you check against it or to create a new menu collection for each page group and for each page that is added to that category, we check each menu collection instance and if the page group belongs to it, we add the newly created page.

I think the former is weak in terms of flexibility and although the latter is a little stronger, but I think it may be chaotic to control in terms of programming and scalability.

Generic list widget

The alternative is a generic list widget that can be used for everything from menus to blog rolls. Rather than relying on the system to determine which page should belong to which list, we put it in the hands of the user. They start off by creating a list collection and are capable of adding items to it. When they add an item, they are prompted with options such as "add internal entries", "add external entries", and "add a sub-list." Adding internal entries brings up a list of all page collections with a checkbox beside each collection as well as each page of that collection with its own checkbox. Checking off a collection automatically checks off each page in the collection and from there they can uncheck or check other entries, checking off pages creates a new list item. A list item can contain, but does not require, a link, an image, the li id and class, and maybe text (possibly).

This option does open up a lot of flexibility but adds the burdon of maintinability for the user. For each page they add - they will have to go back and add a new entry to each menu they want it to appear on.

New Post: Requirements

pvencill — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:30:59 GMT

Ok, oddly an update to one of these doesn't reset the field that they're ordering by, so despite changing this yesterday it was still down in the May range. Adding this post to bring it to the top.

NEW POST: IRC Channel #mvcms (efnet)

justinb — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:30:03 GMT

pvencill wrote:
No joy, corporate firewalls don't pass IRC, and after about 20 minutes my Google Skillz are insufficient to find an online IRC client that will let me pick the server. If you have recommendations thereby, great, otherwise, we can do googletalk; I'm paul.vencill@gmail.com

http://www.mibbit.com (AKA ircatwork.com) is a full-on irc proxy, not just a web app that still needs to access the irc servers directly. I use this at work where the only outbound access is through the http proxy.

NEW POST: Repository Pattern, etc

pvencill — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:33:35 GMT

So, I haven't seen much discussion about the recent round of offerings posted, but I wanted to add a little more context to my recommendations on the repositories.

This article: http://www.sidarok.com/web/blog/content/2008/05/02/10-tips-to-improve-your-linq-to-sql-application-performance.html talks about how to improve performance. Most of the items are keyed around using largely 'standard' queries for your domain models, which makes sense. For the most part, your models should be getting the same kinds of data over and over again. I would submit that an implementation of a LinqRepository (or series of them) would rely on doing things like compiling the queries and using appropriate LoadWith options, and each repository would likely map to a different datacontext (along the lines of the Domain Aggregates, most likely).

For a little more background on the repository pattern, check out this guy's post: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/architecture/linqrepository.aspx which explains some of the benefits and how to put one together in Linq that still lets you decouple your model from your infrastructure. It's similar to the one I did, with a handful of differences. I just found this today.

Paul

NEW POST: Anyone left thats good with javascript (extjs, jquery..whatever)

pvencill — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:23:12 GMT

I installed SP1, have had no issues, and have jquery intellisense working. Don't believe the hype. :)

NEW POST: Anyone left thats good with javascript (extjs, jquery..whatever)

srulyt — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:56:17 GMT

pvencill wrote:
Ok, so I'm down w/ JQuery for this, in fact I found this really great article: http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/2008/02/01/intellisense-for-jquery-in-visual-studio-2008/ for getting VS 2k8 to recognize it in intellisense.

VS 2008 SP1 is alos supposed to help with jquery intellisense, although i heard from a few people that the beta of sp1 is not good and not to install it but when it releases it will add js intellisense including better jquery intellisense

I don't know if this means anything to us but take a look
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9091878

NEW POST: Anyone left thats good with javascript (extjs, jquery..whatever)

pvencill — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:14:52 GMT

Ok, so I'm down w/ JQuery for this, in fact I found this really great article: http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/2008/02/01/intellisense-for-jquery-in-visual-studio-2008/ for getting VS 2k8 to recognize it in intellisense.

NEW POST: Anyone left thats good with javascript (extjs, jquery..whatever)

rlrosario — Fri, 30 May 2008 23:21:48 GMT

I wouldn't go with ext-js since they switched over to GPL for non-commercial licensing.

I have architected and implemented the presentation layer (html/css/js) for production sites of fortune 500 companies mainly using jQuery. Sign me up if you need my help :)

NEW POST: Requirements

pvencill — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:57:14 GMT

Ok, after our vigorous debate yesterday, I've revised my thoughts on req's from the DAL thread, and am reposting the results here. These aren't done, but they're a start. Please add, and we can start testing.

1) Pages use a single template (master page)
2) Pages can use one of several layouts (Views) which can be set per-page
3) All content is addressable by a unique app-relative path
4) Pages are items of content which contain one or more other items of content
5) Content can be created, edited, or deleted by users of appropriate rights (configurable)
6) Content can be tagged with keywords to be grouped with similar content
7) Content can be explicitly put into categories which can be nested infinitely
8) Content can be searched by keywords, description, title, and body
9) Menus can be automatically generated or user-defined
10) Content IDs need to conform to URL specs and be friendly
11) Content must have an ID which is unique.

NEW POST: MVC Preview 3 is up

pvencill — Wed, 28 May 2008 03:49:57 GMT

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/05/27/asp-net-mvc-preview-3-release.aspx

Check it out. How does this change us? If at all...

NEW POST: Themes / Views

pvencill — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:45:30 GMT

Yeah, fixed that when I updated for your file view page.

NEW POST: Themes / Views

msurface — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:50:18 GMT

Looks good, but one thing I noticed is that when you shrink the browser from the right to the left past 800 px or so, the right most column displays over top the center content column.

Try it out to see what I mean...

It displays over anything I render in the middle "contentContent" div.

NEW POST: Themes / Views

pvencill — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:20:23 GMT

So, talked with Michael a bit and we decided on the following rough cut of the basic design:

3 column layout. Left and right columns fixed width, center column fluid
CSS based design
Semantic markup

Draft is in the latest checked-in code, it's not perfect, but it's a first cut at it. I went with positioning the navigation items rather than floating for ease, tell me if you'd prefer floats instead and I'll work it. It's easier to do the 'jello' (halfway between liquid and fixed ;) ) layouts this way, but I'm open.

There's a static view of the theme at Content/Themes/Basic/Demo.htm using the classic Lorem Ipsum nonsense.

Comments welcome.

NEW POST: Beginnings of the Model and Architectural thoughts

pvencill — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:48:47 GMT

Yeah, Chance, Mike, and I have talked separately on googletalk; I couldn't get on IRC during the day due to corporate firewall. I got your PM, though, so I'll add you to my google talk as well and we can work that way.

NEW POST: Beginnings of the Model and Architectural thoughts

srulyt — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:53:37 GMT

My current implementation is very primitive and will need to be refactored.

We wanted something up ASAP and we figured we could then learn from our mistakes and make a better DAL

I have some ideas I would like to discuss. DO you have IRC or GoogleTalk?

Chance, Mike and I had a very long talk yesterday on GoogleTalk and Chance and I have been communicating over IRC (#MVCMS) for a while

Its easier to discuss serious issues this way.

on IRC we are in #MVCMS, for Google send me a private message and ill send my handle (I get enough spam already)

NEW POST: Beginnings of the Model and Architectural thoughts

pvencill — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:16:18 GMT

So first off, I seem to recall that someone (chance?) got the domain name mvcms.org. If so, we need to set something up so that we can post arbitrary (non-code) files and the like for viewing.

Ok, so general thoughts on implementation, I don't want to overengineer but I like a little preplanning (will post diagrams when above is available).

Db access goes through a repository. All repositories implement IRepository<T> where T: Entity. Repositories exist for each aggregate root.

Entity is the base class for our main domain 'stuff'. They're (very simply) things which are important enough to give a unique ID to. So, IEntity (if we were o make one) woudl be as simple as one property (a getter for ID)

I'd like to do the Model in POCOs as much as possible. The controllers will use the repository to either fetch an entity, list of same, or to save same back to the DB.

First thoughts on our entities make my head twitch a little, but basically I think the main thing we're working with right now is an item of content (hence the CMS piece). ContentBase : Entity is bouncing around in my head now, I'll try and get some code up tomorrow. I think ContentBase can then be inherited by specific content types such as 'regular' html, pdf files, movies, etc. More later...

Paul

NEW POST: Anyone left thats good with javascript (extjs, jquery..whatever)

srulyt — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:27:18 GMT

pvencill wrote:
Yeah, I think Chance was starting to lean us toward ext-js, and I'm cool with either, but my feeling is that we start with something that's pretty much js-free and add js later as enhancement. Thoughts?

I agree. Lets keep this release with as little js as possible.