The Tampa ASP.NET MVC Developer Group is starting to kick it up a notch with this month’s meeting being about ASP.NET MVC Extensibility. We have concluded our introductory topics and are now focusing on more intermediate topics. This month’s meeting will hit more advanced topics, such as:
- Creating Custom Controller Factories for Dependency Injection
- Using Custom View Engines
- Creating Custom ActionFilters for DataBinding, Validation, etc.
- Using Custom ControllerActionInvokers
- Developing Custom ActionResults for RSS Feeds, etc.
- Building HtmlHelpers for Productivity
If you are interested in building your own opinionated version of the ASP.NET MVC Framework and have it bend to your will, you don’t want to miss this meeting.
In addition, we will also be going over last month’s homework assignment, which was to use the ASP.NET MVC AjaxHelpers to “ajaxify” an ASP.NET MVC Web Application. As a hint, you can find an answer in our last screencast, ASP.NET MVC Ajax Helpers – Ajax.ActionLink and Ajax.BeginForm – Screencast 
Those completing the homework assignment will be included in a random drawing of Steven Sanderson’s Awesome book, Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework. Absolutely love Steve’s book. Huge thanks to Apress for sending us several copies to give away to our members.
Starting in August we will be working on voluntary group projects to strengthen our team development skills using ASP.NET MVC. Again, huge thanks to two of our sponsors for making this happen: Server Intellect and Unfuddle.
See you on Thursday, July 9 at the Microsoft Office in Tampa!