Articles by DINO ESPOSITO

ASP.NET MVC: Resolve or Inject? That’s the Issue…

Classes should have dependencies only on abstract, rather then concrete, classes. To get around this, you can choose between Service Locator and Dependency Injection techniques. ASP.NET MVC uses 'Dependency Resolvers' which are Service Locators. When designing...

A Generic ASP.NET MVC Template

By Dino Esposito

When you start an ASP.NET MVC project, you choose one of a number of project templates or starter kits. The ones that Visual Studio provide are very useful, but you can create your own if you want, and Dino finds that the generic one that he presents in this...

A Testing Perspective of Controllers and Orchestrators

By Dino Esposito

The neat separation between processing and rendering in ASP.NET MVC guarantees you an application design that is inherently teastable. It doesn't guarantee that your application will be well-designed and quick to test. For that, attention to use-cases and the...

Never Mind the Controller, Here is the Orchestrator

By Dino Esposito

The Model-View-Controller pattern of the ASP.NET MVC allows the separation of the business logic from the input and presentation logic. Although it permits the independent development, testing and maintenance of each component, it doesn't guarantee clean...

ASP.NET MVC Action Results and PDF Content

By Dino Esposito

The Action Result in ASP.NET MVC provides a simple and versatile means of returning different types of response to the browser. Want to serve a PDF file with dynamically-generated content? Do an SEO-friendly permanent redirect? Dino shows you how simple this...