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SoC in WebForms

Scott Bellware makes a brillant comment on Hammett’s weblog:
ASP .NET templated controls did almost nothing to encourage separation of orthogonal concerns. It simply ended up separating concerns that aren’t separate concerns.
Pure Genius - this summarises an entire field of criticism (e.g. [1][2]). The whole issue with the OnRowDataBound/FindControl() style of programming is that things which [...]


Monorail + URL Rewriting

Often people need or want clean URLs (i.e. URL’s without file extensions). e.g.
Not
http://example.com/somecontroller/someaction.aspx
but
http://example.com/somecontroller/someaction
Previously there’s been two options for this. Either mapping all requests to aspnet_isapi.dll which has serious performance implications - or using ISAPI Rewrite from Helicon Software.
There’s a newish (to me anyway) alternative to ISAPI rewrite which is open source (BSD) Ionics Isapi [...]