Implementing Undo in ASP.NET WebForms and MVC

By Keith Sparkjoy
Learn how to implement an Undo user interface in WebForms and MVC
Course info
Rating
(37)
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Aug 27, 2010
Duration
1h 19m
Table of contents
Implementing Undo in ASP.NET Web Forms
Introduction 1m Before Undo 1m Remember the Milk 1m Exploring the POST REDIRECT GET pattern 2m Exploring IUndoProvider 3m Writing an Undo Command 3m Using the Undo Provider Factory 2m Registering a Command: Interaction Diagram 2m Undo ID handoff: Interaction Diagram 3m Handling BeginRequest in Global.asax 1m Adding an Undo Panel 4m Watching Undo work in WebForms 2m Security considerations 3m
Undo Infrastructure
Undo infrastructure interfaces 4m Undo command registration implementation 1m Handling BeginRequest 2m Exploring the UndoPanel 4m Testing the Undo provider 5m Using a BinaryFormatter to serialize Undo commands 6m
Polymorphic Serialization Strategies
The magic of .NET serialization 3m Brittle serialization 1m The XmlSerializer - a less brittle approach 2m Introducing the XmlStringSerializer 4m Deserializing and the Type Registry 4m Refactoring does not break deserialization 3m Summary 1m
Implementing Undo in ASP.NET MVC
Using a new repository 1m Testing with two different repositories 2m Undo in MVC: watch it work 1m Revisiting the Undo provider factory 3m Implementing an Undo panel in MVC using a partial view 2m Implementing an Undo controller 1m Summary 1m
Description
Course info
Rating
(37)
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Aug 27, 2010
Duration
1h 19m
Description

There's loads of advice out there recommending that you implement an Undo feature in your website instead of popping up warning messages to protect users from "dangerous" operations. But there's not a lot of advice out there for how to actually go about doing this in ASP.NET, in either WebForms or MVC. In this course, Keith Brown walks you through his implementation of undo at pluralsight.com to help you get a feel for how you might implement such a feature in your own website.

About the author
Keith Sparkjoy
About the author

Keith is a co-founder of Pluralsight, serving as CTO through 2014, where he helped build the initial content delivery system for Pluralsight, then focused on hiring an awesome team of developers in Utah to take it to the next level.

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