Mvc concepts

I’m reaching the end of my first professional (== I got paid) MVC application.

I learned a lot. This is an attempted visualization of most of the topics that I learned.   You may need to click in to see the details.

In addition, as I found good sources of information on the ‘nets, I included links in my source code in comments.  Here is a compilation of those nuggets of goodness. If your post is mentioned on this list — thank you.

Link Goodness
 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4367723/get-enum-from-description-attribute Embedding meta-data about things in enumerations
 http://ayende.com/blog/1595/nhibernate-mapping-creating-sanity-checks (NHibernate) Integration test to validate mapping completeness
http://www.codingoptimist.com/2010/11/nhibernate-hidden-gems-speed-up.html (NHibernate) Caching configurations (gain: 1 second, not worth it, dropped)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/325156/calling-generic-method-with-a-type-argument-known-only-at-execution-time Having multiple types with shared logic was a wonderful spot for co-variance, but after about an hour, it was time to move on
http://www.nickriggs.com/posts/getting-the-id-and-name-attribute-generated-by-typed-html-helpers/ I had to drop down to a TextBox with an @class setting, and thus I couldn’t use TextBoxFor, so this came in very useful
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/stringenum.aspx Used by a coworker somewhere in the guts of an automatic model-to-.Where()-clause LINQ query extension
http://www.mikesdotnetting.com/Article/125/ASP.NET-MVC-Uploading-and-Downloading-Files Made it oh-so-easy for me to save and upload intermediate files from this file processing system
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1151987/can-i-set-an-unlimited-length-for-maxjsonlength-in-web-config/7207539#7207539 Before we got the Grid getting only 1 page at a time, we were getting everything – thus needing this
http://code.google.com/p/autofac/wiki/Mvc3Integration Autofac was just amazing. It made sense to me! Its what I would have done if i was writing an IoC container…
http://slynetblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/using-aspnet-mvc-4-webapi-with.html Using ASp.Net MVC4 with NHiberate and AutoFac .. pointing me in the right direction
http://forum.jquery.com/topic/span-text-new-text-not-working-in-ie  <span/> to <span></span> did the trick, then I could .text() it
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10588587/jqgrid-does-not-render-correctly-in-chrome-chrome-frame An annoying bug that sent me searching for at least 15 minutes
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5248183/html-partial-vs-html-renderpartial-html-action-vs-html-renderaction When the views became too large, I could refactor|extract view
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2498187/system-web-extensions-trouble-deploying-net-framework-4-website-on-iis7 The target server to install on did not have MVC3; so I had to include it in the XCOPY deploy

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