Beta version of T4 Toolbox for Visual Studio 2012 is now available from the Visual Studio Gallery. You can install it from Visual Studio itself, using the Extension Manager. Simply select TOOLS, Extensions and Updates from the main menu; search the Visual Studio Gallery for T4 Toolbox and click Download. Once the T4 Toolbox package installed, you can...

ASP.NET Dynamic Data Unleashed from SAMS Publishing is finally out. This book was written by yours truly and is largely responsible for my disappearance from this web site and online forums over the past year and a half. Special thanks to David Ebbo, Scott Hunter and Sven Aelterman for reviewing this book, its code samples and keeping me honest. This...

This article provides an overview of configuration files in .NET applications, discusses common problems of managing environment-specific settings, reviews different approaches for managing configuration settings and introduces .config file transformation in Visual Studio 2010.  The downloadable code example and shows how to use config transforms not...

The only option to create a custom form layout in version 3.5 of the ASP.NET Dynamic Data was to create an entire custom page, as shown in this video and explained in this article. Although powerful, this approach requires you to duplicate an entire page, with all of its supporting code. Version 4.0 of ASP.NET Dynamic Data allows you to define entity...

Out of the box, ASP.NET Dynamic Data automatically generates search screens for entities based on their own columns. Here is an example of a search screen it generated for the Order table of the Northwind model from the previous article. This screen contains controls for all columns of the Order table for which Dynamic Data can generate filter controls....

ASP.NET Dynamic Data lets you create extensible model-driven Web applications by inferring the appearance and behavior of entities from the model at run time. It relies on “scaffolding” to automatically generate different types of Web pages for each entity in the model from a set of reusable ASP.NET user controls and pages. Each of these “templates”...