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Still not officially announced by anybody inside Microsoft, but quietly this morning the first preview of ASP.NET MVC 3 appeared on Microsoft Download. And it’s exactly what everyone was expecting after last month’s announcement of Scott Guthrie of Razor, the new view engine for ASP.NET MVC. What else does this new version bring to the table? First of all it takes a dependency on .NET4. It means that you cannot be able to use it unless you migrate you applications to the latest version of the .NET framework (and if the story repeats itself, with the RTM...

Ninject with ASP.NET MVC series How to use Ninject with ASP.NET MVC How to use Ninject to inject dependencies into ASP.NET MVC ActionFilters Extending Ninject to inject dependencies into Action Filters Ninject.FilterInjector v1.5: now injecting inside all filters   ActionFilters are a great way to encapsulate pieces of functionalities and move them outside ASP.NET MVC Controllers, but they have a problem: it’s very difficult to inject dependencies...

 In my current project I'm trying to apply the best practices for building "great software" (cit.). One of the best practices is using a (kind of) TDD approach, using Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection to test only the relevant parts of your code without testing all the layers of your applications, DB included, during each test. Which are the benefits of this approach? First of all your tests run quicker because they are not hitting the database all the times. Second, you don't need to restore the initial state for the database. Third, if you are...