A few hours into Fluent nHibernate. I decided to log some of these errors. As time permits I’ll update this one post. Eventually once I’m running smoothly I may do a post on Fluent nHibernate and my findings. This is assuming I stick with it, but so far, so good.

I will also add that the docs for Fluent nHibernate have been very good so far which is why I’m able to ge so far in such a short time. Shout out to Fluent nHibernate team… they need a shorter name though…

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As this blog has evolved, and will inevitably continue to do so, I feel I can take some time out from technical posts to vent a little about the frustrations I’ve had in the past few weeks surrounding the Tools of the trade.

While I’m tempted to list in agonizing detail, each error and issue I’ve faced, for brevity’s sake I won’t. What I will do is say simply state the general area’s most damning to your happy use of any tools.

Documentation

Too much or too little are a bad thing. Wading through an avalanche of documentation, demo’s, sample projects, video’s can be daunting, tiresome and confusing but I’d rather have too much than too little. With too much, you can cherry-pick and track ( see resources ) with too little, you end up posting questions, reading vague forum/group/blog posts trying to figure out what’s going on. Don’t do this to yourself.
Lesson learned:
If all they have are a sparsely populated Wiki, avoid this tool!! All the blog posts in the world can’t make up for lack of documentation or a “How To’s”, “FAQ”, “Demo”, “Sample”

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Hours of debugging and wondering what was going on with certain Views not loading, I traced down this awesome post and had to re-post it for anyone else who might be experiencing this particular pain…

Problem:

Parser Error Message: Could not load type ‘System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<…>’.

You’ve checked your references, the view, the controller… what’s the deal?

Solution:

Missing in your “Views/web.config” “pages” element:

 <pages
          validateRequest="false"
          pageParserFilterType="System.Web.Mvc.ViewTypeParserFilter, System.Web.Mvc, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"
          pageBaseType="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage, System.Web.Mvc, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"
          userControlBaseType="System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl, System.Web.Mvc, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35">
         <controls>
            <add assembly="System.Web.Mvc, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" namespace="System.Web.Mvc" tagPrefix="mvc" />
         </controls>
      </pages>

Related Solution:

If you created the project using an RC or Beta, you may need to recreate it using the final version 1.0 as a few things changed and may contribute to this or other issues. I had to do this since I started the project before I installed 1.0

Links:

Alkampfer
Ben Hall

Update :-\
After referencing the MVC Futures DLL, this solution stopped working for me, I have now had to resort to copying the “Views” web.config into every subfolder under Views. Not sure if it’s related. How Annoying!

Good luck.

It’s hard to go anywhere right now and not see MVC center stage, bathed in bright flashing neon lights. The .NET community seems to be adopting this faster than many expected. There was a lot of speculation that MVC would end up being the country cousin of the more popular ASP.NET WebForms. That it could only hope for a small percentage of marketshare when it came to a MS solution for the web. Well fast forward a year and a half all the buzz has catapulted MVC from certified-underground to “Cool Kid”cult status. If there is a machine behind MVC you’d have to agree that it was the community. MVC, We Made You.

If like me you heard the buzz and downloaded the beta at any of the varying stages, you’ll appreciate the mainstream love headed MVC’s way. A sure sign of that love are the number of blog posts, tweets and, remixes ( MvcContrib/CodePlex) Many of the books aren’t out yet but here is a short list with links. I’ll do a quick review of one in particular which is the “MEAP” ASP.NET MVC in Action by Jeffrey Palermo, Ben Scheirman, and Jimmy Bogard.

Cover and Chapters(Click to enlarge)

The items in red were missing from the Early-release version I read. If you order the book I expect the chapters might change slightly and those missing will happily be complete. Items in green are a must read. Items in white are specific to the issue and you can go back to these chapters when you need that knowledge.

Overall

I liked this book a lot. I read it over the span of a few hours and I didn’t skip much aside from the chapters in white above. The first 100 pages are PERFECT. They cover everything you’ll need to get busy coding. I like that. Some books expect us to read books cover to cover and ration the goodies. We like easy books that give it up right away. This is probably the only time I’ll ever get to say anything like that.

Get the book if you are familiar with some of the approaches the authors like, or if you want to get an advanced alt.net style approach to implementing mvc.No wizards here.

They embrace a lot of different concepts along the way.If you get the MAEP version, expect to see some omissions, errors. The book doesn’t come with recipes which I would have liked to see.

Code Swag Rating

4 daps out of 5

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On Wednesday I’ll (hopefully) be at the .NET Calgary user group presentation being held on Domain Driven Design.

 I’m not new to the topic but the presentation will be using Fluent nHibernate and DDD, which is quite a lot to talk about in one night. However, considering JP will be delivering this presentation, we might get it all done and still have time to compost the pizza boxes!

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