The Coding Humanist

Session Description: One of the standard bits that ships with the ASP.NET MVC Framework is the HtmlHelper class. It’s basic function is to make it easier to manage and output html in your views. Those who start out probably think that it was meant to be used as-is but real-world MVC applications often end up extending it. Out of the box it is a good and useful tool but it’s a better tool in the hands of someone who realizes that it is a fantastic extensibility point in ASP.NET MVC. In this discussion we’ll talk about how to extend it with examples from my work with ASP.NET MVC as well as examples that I have seen in open-source ASP.NET MVC applications. This session was originally given for the Oct 11, 2009 meeting of C4MVC.

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The source code of the project I use to demonstrate the techniques can be downloaded below:

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