One of the really cool new features in ASP .NET MVC 2 is templated helpers. The basic idea is that you can define a template for either displaying or editing a particular data type, and it will be used by default when displaying or editing that type. This allows you to define the behavior once, and then you don’t need to worry about it in every view you write thereafter. In this post I’ll…

One of the many nice things they have added in MVC 2 is model/view model validation on both the client and server side. I won’t go into the basics here since they have been covered extensively by others. However, recently I was adding validation to require a value for a hidden field on a form, and found that the default validation functionality just didn’t work on the client side for a hidden field.…