One of the major selling points of ASP.Net MVC is its extensibility options. Almost every piece of it can updated or swapped out. I have been hacking on the bits quite a bit over the last couple of weeks and have been using the MvcContrib to augment some of the built in ASP.Net functionality.

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NVelocity[1] is a .NET port of the Velocity open source template engine. I have used NVelocity quite a few times over the last couple of years.

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For the last couple of weeks I have been digging through a bunch of new projects/concepts with the hope of using some new (to me) things in a couple application samples/prototypes I am itching to build. One of the projects I have been spending a lot of time with recently is the Castle Project.

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I have to agree with Frans Bouma on the topic of Microsoft releasing the source code to the .NET Framework assemblies. Yes, I'm negative about this move. The main reason is that doesn't solve real problems at all. Take for example the case where you detect a bug in the BCL. You plow through the source...

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