upshot

I am trying to create a SPA application, to take advantage of upshot and its capabilities. However, the services exposing the data (i.e. the Web API) is in a completely separate project, already hosted on IIS. I would like to bind upshot to that existing API, but from what I can see in the HTML helpers for upshot (v1.0.0.1), you need to pass in the type of the controller that exposes the data, like so: Html.UpshotContext.DataSource(Of ToDoController )(Function(x) x.GetTodoItems()) where ToDoController is the ApiController that exposes the data, defined in the same project. My question is, how

How does upshot.js handles DateTime objects? As it seems its just creating "normal" strings and not creating a real JS date object. All the problems related to JSON date formatting and MVC are discussed here already: Handling dates with Asp.Net MVC and KnockoutJS So even after changing the MVC default JSON formatter to JSON.Net its still not doing an automatic conversion to date. Unfortunately all the bindings must be done "per hand" to create a Date object internally. With the JSON.Net formatted date to new Date(string) approach seems to work ok as the constructor is abel to handle the date

I am testing Knockout 2.1.0 and Upshot 1.0.0.2 with Entity Framework 4.3 (Code-First) and am running into the following error: {"Object graph for type 'System.Collections.Generic.HashSet`1[[KnockoutTest.Models.Person, KnockoutTest, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null]]' contains cycles and cannot be serialized if reference tracking is disabled."} I am using a fairly typical model for testing with some basic parent-child entities. public class Client { public Client() { Projects = new HashSet<Project>(); Persons = new HashSet<Person>(); } [Key] public int ClientId { get; set;

Steve Sanderson gave a very interesting presentations at Techdays 2012 in the Netherlands. In one of them he presented a library that he used for client-server communication in MVC application: Upshot. I was really amazed how easy it was to use it, so I wanted to download and test it. I found the download link here through NuGet , but I cannot find any documentation. Does anyone have something that works? I would also appreciate the sample code that Steve showed as during presentation. EDIT: I found the online presentation I attended at Techdays. It's soooo much worth seeing. You will get a

I have a DbDataController which delivers a List of Equipment. public IQueryable<BettrFit.Models.Equipment> GetEquipment() { var q= DbContext.EquipmentSet.OrderBy(e => e.Name); return q; } In my scaffolded view everything looks ok. But the Equipment contains a HashSet member of EquipmentType. I want to show this type in my view and also be able to add data to the EquipmentType collection of Equipment (via a multiselect list). But if I try to include the "EquipmentType" in my linq query it fails during serialisation . public IQueryable<BettrFit.Models.Equipment> GetEquipment() { var q= DbContext

I am thinking of using upshot.js along with Knockout in one of my very important projects. I do not see any documentation or any activity around upshot. Before I commit to this decision, is this project still active? If the entire asp.net stack is now open and one can see what is getting committed to repository, why this small library is still not on codeplex or github for community to see? I hope this is still on radar of asp.net team. According to this blog post, Upshot is officially dead: http://www.riaservicesblog.net/Blog/post/WCF-RIA-Services-is-Dead-Long-Live-WCF-RIA-Services.aspx The