what is important is the framework and not the way to "attack it".

if you are not able to understand the vb examples and convert it to C# yourself, you should consider about finding a new job.

Great set of vidz.

yet another C# developer.

I don't think its a good idea to extend the set of Html helper methods.  It would be better to use a custom class of your own, i.e., use "the easy way".

All else aside, I bet we'll eventually see a lot of custom extension methods showing up on the web over the next few months...

-Michael

My personal opinion?

These html helpers are totally useless. I could hardly find a real use of these helpers.Maybe in cases I need to print html directly from the code-behind of a  usercontrol.

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_ Module == static class

_ <Extension()> == Extention Method

If you use the Extension Method paradigm, can you modify one of the standard helpers? Can you for example, set attributes within the Extension Method?

I have an application that uses Struts, in which I use a modified JSP tag to check whether or not a user has access to the specific field that is about to be rendered. If they do not, i set the readonly and disabled attributes for that element to true.

So if you can do things like that, the HTML Helpers are very valuable.

Besides the parameters are there any limitations on the logic I can use in my helpers?

For those using C# who aren't familiar with extension methods, building with the Extension attribute will say to use "this" instead. Here is the code:

/Helpers/LabelExtension.cs

using System.Web.Mvc;

using System;

public static class LabelExtension

{

public static string Label(this HtmlHelper helper, string target, string text)

{

return String.Format("<label for='{0}'>{1}</label>", target, text);

}

}

<%=Html.TextBox("txtBox") %>

<input name="txtBox" />

How is this better or same time?

But again - love the videos - they are a very useful resource!

Just wondering....

Would it be ugly-code if instead of passing tag-values in a helper parameter, I fx pass myItem.Id, and in my extensionmethod I evaluate the state of my object, and from there decide to return what-ever html content I should wish (img, video.. and so forth)? This way you can have different output-types in one column. This would act like a data-trigger for your column.

Or is it to be done in another way? (I'm new to HTML/Web-programming in general :)

Ugly or not. I think i will play a bit with it, just for the exercise :)