ASP.NET MVC3 Boilerplate

A collection of addons and configurations I use in most projects. Inspired by HTML5 Boilerplate.

I'd love to see someone smarter then me take this over and make it awesome. I'm sure there are things I have in here that may not be best practices.

Features

• HTML5 Boilerplate - http://html5boilerplate.com/
• Elmah - http://code.google.com/p/elmah/
• JSON Parser - https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js
• Modernizr - http://www.modernizr.com/
• Ninject - http://ninject.org/
• Telerik MVC Extensions - http://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-mvc.aspx
• Sql Server CE - http://nuget.org/Packages/Packages/Details/SqlServerCompact-4-0-8482-1
• EF Code First - http://nuget.org/Packages/Packages/Details/EFCodeFirst-0-8
• Bits from Tekpub MVC 2 Starter Site - http://mvcstarter.codeplex.com/
• Basic User Signup using simple POCO User object complete with change and forgot your password.
• Cache Extensions - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/445050/how-can-i-cache-objects-in-asp-net-mvc
• Phil Haack's Enumeration Extensions - http://haacked.com/archive/2010/06/10/checking-for-empty-enumerations.aspx
• BCrypt password hashing

History

8/12/2011

• Changed Hash routine to use BCrypt.
• Moved Upload Paths to SiteHelper and removed unnecessary namespace declarations to make it easier to more SiteSettings to its own assembly.
• Fixed minor bug with flash helper displaying both validation summary and flash message.

8/11/2011

• Added "Forgot Password" feature that sends an email with a uniqure verification url that the user can visit to change their password.
• Updated all Nuget packages
• Changed to custom jQuery UI theme and updated to version 1.8.15
• Updated jQuery to 1.6.2
• Updated jQuery.Validate to 1.8.1
• Updated modernizr to 2.0.6
• Fixed bug in jquery.validate.unobtrusive.js so it works with new version of jQuery
• Updated HTML5 Boilerplate to 2.0
• Changed the HTML Helper DeleteLink to FormPostLink because it can be used to do more then just delete.
• Added FormPostButton HTML Helper.
• Fixed issue with custom MembershipProvider and how we were saving the UserId. We now save the username as the FormsAuth Username and store UserId in UserData.

8/9/2011

• Added $.cancelAjaxIfRunning function.

7/31/2011

• Updated Flash Message helpers to work without javascript.
• Added Z-index to flash message.

7/05/2011

• Enabled Elmah error filtering by default.

6/19/2011

• Added null check to CacheHelper.

5/13/2011

• Replaced SquishIt with Telerik since Telerik seems to have better compression and it's more AppHarbor friendly.
• Added ImagePath Helper.

5/12/2011

• Changed CSS to not cause issues with plupload.

5/10/2011

• Fixed bug with displaying error messages on signup.

5/5/2011

• Updated Valid Email check's Regex so it supports + signs.

4/5/2011

• Fixed a couple bugs in UserMembershipProvider with returning the Email versus Username.
• Made Repository Classes static.
• Added CacheHelper so stuff like "Friendly name" would not be passed around in a cookie.
• Added Phil Haack's Enumeration Extensions

3/25/2011

• Moved jQuery UI to root of content to fix issue with SquishIt and images path.

3/24/2011

• Merged IUserSession functionality into IFormsAuthenticationService since they were pretty similar.

3/21/2011

• Updated to use EntityFramework.4.1 Nuget package and dealt with this bug caused by doing so. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5365376/system-nullreferenceexception-after-upgrade-to-ef-4-1
• Removed unnecessary using statements in Models.
• Updated UserRepository.CreatePasswordHash to not rely on System.Web namespace.
• Updated _Layout.cshtml to note how/why I modified HTML5 Boilerplate.

3/10/2011

• Updated SessionController to use a proper custom MembershipProvider instead of the hack that was in there before.
• Updated all Nuget Packages to their latest versions.
• Updated HTML5 Boilerplate to v1.0rc
• Updated jQuery UI to 1.8.10
• Updated Modernizr to 1.7
• Fixed bugs in Flash helpers.
• Fixed other minor bugs.

Road Map

• Add alternative login options like OpenId, Janrain, or Twitter?
• Create Nuget package?