Reference

The following is a reference of the components made available by the Bistro framework. Where describing classes and interfaces, the wiki focuses on usage. For more detailed information see the Bistro Class Library

Configuration files

• web.config

Attributes

• Allow
• Bind
• Deny
• CookieField
• DependsOn
• FormatAs - new in 0.9.1.0
• FormField
• Provides
• Requires
• Request
• RenderWith
• Session

Classes and Interfaces

• IController
• ISecurityController
• AbstractController
• SecurityController
• IExecutionContext
• IContext
• WebException
• IResponse

Sample Applications

The following applications are available in the bistro svn. They are widely documented, and typically cover a significant range of use cases and common scenarios encountered while developing applications with bistro.

• NoRecruiters - a job posting and search site application

This sample application is a full-fledged app, with user profile management, applicant management, resumes, postings, the works. It includes MSSQL scripts to create the sample database and populate some basic data. Pay special attention to

• Security policy - it is both an illustration of aspect-oriented controller design, and a demo of building your own security policy
• State management - this application has only 2 (count 'em) session-level values. The remaining state information flows through the application as url parameters and form fields

Note that there are two versions of this application, designated by the folder names

• NoRecruiters-CS-D-NH is a version in c#, with django templates and NHibernate for persistence
  • This version also uses a custom logger implementation to log to log4net, the default logging facility of NHibernate. The default configuration is for trace only.
  • You will need to update the connection string in the web.config to point to wherever you deploy the database
• NoRecruiters-CS-D-WFS is a version in c#, with django templates and Worfklow ORM for persistence. You will find the necessary workflow binaries already in present in that project's bin folder.
  • You will need to update the connection string in \Config\DataStores\Primary.xml to point to wherever you deploy the database

• MvcSamplePort - a straight port of the default ASP.MVC sample application to Bistro and NDjango
• MvcSamplePortFS - a port of the ASP.MVC sample application to Bistro, F# and NDjango
• FSWebServiceSample - a simple web service written in F# with the FSharpExtensions library.

Detailed instruction on how to install Examples can be found on this page.