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Source code is available here. I recently had a problem where I wanted an MVC controller to use constructor injection of specified dependency and have that dependency load another specified dependency using Windsor.

Download the source code here. If you are using lazy loading with Entity Framework you should check that queries to the database are working as expected. A lazy load call to something like customer.

To add add a ROWGUIDCOL to a unique identifier in a table using code first you have to use code migrations. Below is the snippet you need. I haven’t covered how to perform a migration because there are plenty of articles available.

I have a database built off code first models, but I want to set some of the columns to sparse. There isn’t a way to this with the fluent api or through annotations.

Full source code here. Action filters are executed before and/or after the execution of an action method, they can be used to modify how an action executes or to perform a separate task, such as authorization or logging.

Full source code here. In the previous post I showed how you can use an action filter to execute code both before and after an action method and how to apply the filter globally.

Serializing a class to XML in C# is straightforward; most collections can be easily serialized also. Something like the following will work in most scenarios - 1public string GetSerializedString<T>(T objectToSerialize) 2{ 3 var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T)); 4 TextWriter textWriter = new StringWriter(); 5 6 var xmlWriter = XmlWriter.

I have an application where I deserialize an xml stream from a third party. One of the fields is a task code which can be one of only three values, insert, update and delete.

In my previous post I discussed how values sent from the browser are bound to objects in the action methods of a controller. If binding is not working as expected you need to examine the html element names and the types you are binding to, I showed how the FormCollection can be of help in this regard.

Sending values from an MVC view to a controller works very well when you are binding back to the same model/viewmodel you populated the view with. But when you start trying to do something a little different, it’s not so obvious or straightforward.