Niels R. » ASP.NET

Vici Project support has moved to StackExchange

Niels R. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:39:03 +0000

We all love Stack Overflow, so when Joel Spolsky told the world that the platform would be made publicity available we move the Vici Project support to StackExchange.

All questions regarding Vici MVC, Vici CoolStorage, Vici Parser, Vici WinService and all other future Vici projects can be viewed and answered on http://vici.stackexchange.com.

The old http://support.viciproject.com URL will redirect you to the new support location.

You want ASP.NET MVC? Choose Vici MVC!

Niels R. — Sun, 31 May 2009 08:16:27 +0000

Yesterday, Philippe Leybaert released Vici MVC 2.0. This full-blown MVC framework for building ASP.NET web applications without using WebForms is now part of the open-source Vici Project.

Philippe describes Vici Project as follows: “The idea of the Vici Project is to provide .NET developers with a collection of lightweight libraries and frameworks, and at the same time get the community involved in the development and support of these libraries.”

The first sub-project of the Vici Project to be released is Vici MVC, formerly known as ProMesh.NET. Later this week, 2 other projects will be released as well: Vici Parser (formerly LazyParser.NET/SharpTemplate.NET) and Vici CoolStorage (formerly CoolStorage.NET).

I personally use Promesh.NET/Vici.Mvc with Coolstorage.NET/Vici.CoolStorage for some months now and I really enjoy developing web applications using this powerful framework.
After getting tired of using WebForms I’m happy that I now again have full control of my application! No more ViewState’s, no more “wanna-be-events”, …

Are you a .NET web developer? Get your ass over there and try out this wonderful products!

Internet Explorer 8 and ASP.NET MVC 1.0 released on MIX09

Niels R. — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:16:16 +0000

Well, well, well… Microsoft has released two new “things”…

First, you can all enjoy the official 1.0 release of ASP.NET MVC by downloading it from the Microsoft Download Center.

I must say that I’m not really thrilled about it, because I’m already enjoyng an excellent MVC framework for ASP.NET called ProMesh.NET. It’s lightweight, open source and a perfect match with the open source ORM CoolStorage.NET. Both projects will become part of the Vici Project collection of free tools.

Of course I’ll try out ASP.NET MVC, but I must say I expect it to be “too much, too heavy”. I like it to be no-nonsense and lightweight.

Second… The horror of Internet Explorer continues… Microsoft released the 8.0 version of their web browser. As a real opposer to Internet Explorer I will not install it to use as my daily web browser, but I need it to test my web applications. You want to download it and install it out of free will, please visit the Internet Explorer homepage.

Community Server and I

Niels R. — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:09:17 +0000

This is a totally irrelevant post, but I’ve to get is off my chest.

My opinion about Community Server (v2.1, I think): IT STINKS!

I have no decent arguments to support this opinion, but after hours of digging in an existing Community Server website I get totally frustrated about the lack of structure and logic I’m used to…

It could just be me, but I’ve to find another solution to this platform asap.