ASP.NET MVC: Html.Textbox

Posted on October 4, 2009 by Kristof

If you have a model for your view you can do

Html.TextBox("Title")

Which automaticly (through reflection) fills in the Model.Title value as value, so you don’t need to do

Html.TextBox("Title", Model.Title)

Web Platform Installer Detection bug

Posted on October 4, 2009 by Kristof

I’ve been using Microsoft Web Platform Installer for a while. It’s a great tool to install everything you need for web development, it installs SQL Server for you without bugging you with difficult questions. (on a side note: if you want to move your SQL DATA folder look at this post).

But there is a small problem when you launch the Web Platform Installer . It suggests you install Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Web Developer Express Edition: