Recently while working on a new feature with another member of the team that I’m on, a little bit of controversy came up. Part of the new feature required that we store a time of day. Now if we were using SQL Server 2008 there wouldn’t be a problem as there is a data type that is perfectly appropriate for storing time, it’s called time. But our environment is currently using SQL Server 2005, so we have to compromise.

A few weeks ago I said that I would be converting my blog to MVC… Well today (actually yesterday) I made good on that promise. Tombatron.com is now an MVC website. The website still remains and probably will always be a work in progress. As always the source code is completely open and viewable to the public. You can find the source here.

Let’s face it, dependency injection makes sense when you want to write a highly testable application. Since one of my goals with the Tombatron website was to have it as testable as possible, I decided that I too would add dependency injection. For Tombatron I chose Ninject. Ninject was chosen for two reasons. First, cool name huh? Second, once you have Ninject setup actually injecting the dependencies is a snap! In this post I will cover the basics of implementing Ninject with your ASP.NET MVC web application and then cover how to perform some basic unit testing of your new implementation.

When working with ASP.NET Web Forms adding controls to a page at runtime isn’t really a big deal. But when you switch over to MVC the concept of a control evaporates and you have to get a little creative. One option is to revert to a non-dynamic solution and statically define the definable settings. But that’s no fun. The other option (and what I’ve done) is to create your very own HTML helper that will generate a form for you. That’s what I’ll be going over today.

My previous entry ended with my saying that I would be migrating Tombatron.com to the ASP.NET MVC framework. I figured that I’d post some lessons learned every now and then so that others can learn from my experiences. I’ve started working on the migration and I must say that I’m actually surprised at the progress I’ve been able to make in just a few hours. The biggest hurdle I had to jump over today was “Routing”...