Building a Simple Blog Engine with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ

Print Add To Favorites Email To Friend Rate This Article
Building a Simple Blog Engine with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ - Part 1

page 4 of 8

by Keyvan Nayyeri
Feedback

Average Rating: This article has not yet been rated.
Views (Total / Last 10 Days): 24061/ 416

Article Contents:

Basics of KBlog

For this article series, I am going to build a simple sample blogging tool that I call KBlog. This blogging engine will be built on top of some considerations that will be described here.

This blogging engine supports blog posts, comments and categories. A blog post can have only one category and as many comments as possible. This blog engine is for single users only and has some URL patterns for public and private pages. Everything will be referred by its ID and KBlog does not support post names as a part of URL just to make the application simpler.

I will use SQL Express for my database and for the first steps. I fill this database manually and after finishing my discussion with public pages, I will jump into details of administration pages where the user can enter data.

« (Page 3)

View Entire Article

(Page 5) »

Article Feedback

Comment:
Title:
Name:
Url:	( Optional )

Please add 3 and 1 and type the answer here:

User Comments

Title: How...
Name: AmyJK
Date: 6/5/2008 6:27:20 AM
Comment:
How do i get hold of the extentions?

Title: Part 4
Name: Keyvan Nayyeri
Date: 5/2/2008 3:01:15 AM
Comment:
You can read the fourth part here:
http://aspalliance.com/1630_Building_a_Simple_Blog_Engine_with_ASPNET_MVC_and_LINQ__Part_4

Title: Part 3
Name: Keyvan Nayyeri
Date: 3/5/2008 1:35:04 PM
Comment:
You can read the second part here:
http://aspalliance.com/1604_Building_a_Simple_Blog_Engine_with_ASPNET_MVC_and_LINQ__Part_3

Title: Part 2
Name: Keyvan Nayyeri
Date: 3/5/2008 1:34:21 PM
Comment:
You can read the second part here:
http://aspalliance.com/1559_Building_a_Simple_Blog_Engine_with_ASPNET_MVC_and_LINQ__Part_2

Title: Download
Name: Alexandre
Date: 3/3/2008 3:09:17 PM
Comment:
How may i download it?

[]s

Title: Great starter kit
Name: dotservant.com website hosting services
Date: 2/21/2008 3:26:26 AM
Comment:
Great introduction to MVC and a simple hands on exercise for a quick run through of the general concept of ASP.NET MVC.

Title: Comment on Figure 1
Name: Keyvan Nayyeri
Date: 2/4/2008 12:59:35 PM
Comment:
Dave,

Thank you for leaving your comment. If I can remember it correctly, I took Figure 1 from MSDN. Yes, there can be a two-way connection between controller and view but don't forget that this isn't mandatory. There may be some cases where controller gets data from view to perform an update but this isn't 100% a case for all scnearios.

I hope this makes sense.

Title: Figure 1 (MVC structure) is incorrect
Name: Dave
Date: 2/4/2008 12:40:04 PM
Comment:
The view NEVER(!) updates the model. The controller is responsible for loading and saving states to the model layer. Loaded information from the models layer is than passed the the view. The view does only presentation. By definition it is impossible that a presentation contacts the models view or even updates it. The controller is responsible for all logic needed to view, create, update or delete a page.

(I hope my schema stays correct)
+------------+ +-------+
| controller | --- loading information --> | model |
| | <-- saving information ---- | |
+------------+ +-------+
|
V
+------------+
| view |
+------------+

(Basicly your have to define a two-way (loading and saving) connection from the controller to the model. The controller has a 'write-only' connection with the view.

The rest of the article is written very well. Keep up the good work!

Title: Great
Name: Santosh
Date: 1/29/2008 1:16:45 PM
Comment:
Nice article, easy to undestand!

Title: Nice
Name: Gustavo
Date: 1/24/2008 1:45:58 PM
Comment:
Keep Going...
I want to see the final result soon! =]