Honest Illusion

It’s been too long since I posted since .NET code, and I’ve been itching to.  (Actually, I really want to write more about politics, but I figured if I don’t show some code soon, I’m gonna lost my techy audience)  Fortunately, I’ve got a backlog of things I’ve been meaning to write about.  Today’s is the PropertyBagTextWriter. The original ...

In our last episode, we discussed the PortableAreaController base class, which makes it simple to create a portable area using Monorail.  In this installment, we put that class to use. For the purposes of this example, the controller isn’t going to do anything useful – I’m not even going to bother with code in the actions.  The different ...

Recently I had read a blogger comparing Castle Monorail with ASP.NET MVC.  He chose ASP.NET mainly because it supported Portable Areas while Monorail did not.  As a supporter of Monorail, I was very offended by this, and decided to correct the problem.  The first step… finding out exactly what a “portable area” was. A Portable Area is a ...

This was intended to be a two-part article.  It was just after I published the original article, I noticed that I’d left out a large part of ViewComponentEx. We continue….. protected bool RenderOptionalSection(string section) protected bool RenderOptionalSection(string section, string defaultText) Renders the named ...

I’ve been rewriting my website, njtheater.com, (very slowly) as a Castle MonoRail application.  Along the way, I’ve written a number of ViewComponent and other elements.  Many of these were of general use, so I’ve added them to the CastleContib project, and documented them in the using.castleproject.org wiki. Two problem there: First, some of ...