ASP.NET MVC Design Gallery
My teammate Stephen Walther launched the ASP.NET MVC Design Gallery a few weeks back. This stemmed from an idea ScottGu had to let the community change the default templates that ship with ASP.NET MVC. I was supposed to work on this but headed to Africa for the holidays so Stephen helped me out and took over the project and did a better job than I would have!
You can vote on the designs that you like and that you don't like. You also can contribute new designs of your own.
After you download a design from the gallery, you can use the design by following these steps:
1) Copy the files from DesignTemplateCS or DesignTemplateVB folder into your project (use DesignTemplateCS for C# projects and DesignTemplateVB for VB.NET projects)
2) Do a search and replace the string [YourProjectName]. Replace [YourProjectName] with the actual name of your project as displayed in the Solution Explorer window.
This last step is necessary to get the namespaces right. Most of the templates use helper methods to render the menu items so that the selected menu item is correctly displayed.
Microsoft also is hosting a design competition to encourage members of the community to submit new designs. Submit a new design before January 31, 2009. ScottGu will be selecting the best three designs and announcing them on his blog. Learn more about the ASP.NET MVC Design Competition and submit your designs before January 31st.
About Scott
Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.
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@Scott: Great to see my design on your blog :-)
@kazimanzurrashid -- We LOVE developers! We have ASP.NET MVC tutorials, videos, sample applications, and website galleries on the way. However, we know that developers also tend to not be the best designers. We want to make sure that developers have the necessary resources to make great looking ASP.NET MVC websites.
I'll be sure to tell some of the other MVC gurus here in Fla. who didn't know that when I asked them.
Hope you're feeling better since Africa.
I have been trying for days to download October by DAvid Hauser form both work and home and just get the following error:
The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.
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An invalid character was found in text content. Error processing resource 'http://www.asp.net/MvcGalleryFile.ashx?fileid=20...
Very nice design and I would love to be albe to use it. Can you reports this to someone?
I have no problems getting any of thge other designs from the site.
Thanks
Jim
This is amazing thing to learn . Moving from the regular design concepts to a newer level is good.
I welcome this things.
Thanks,
thani
You guys are always on about the cutting edge of applicationdevelopment, and I like that, really I do, now how about giving us an easy way to code HTML to the cutting edge by adding support for HTML 5?
The problem with downloading the October template is fixed now. Thanks for calling our attention to this.
-- best,
Stephen Walther
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If not, all you guys will have are designs like the current ones, that look like the kind of stuff that programmers come up with, not designers.