This post is an update to my original ASP.NET MVC Recursive TreeView Helper from almost 3 years ago. Oddly enough it’s still a high-traffic post and has close to 50 comments asking for an update or a complete solution to download. I figured if I was going to do that, I might as well give the API a much-needed facelift and pop it on NuGet. What is it? Given the following self-referencing hierarchal model… public class TreeViewLocation { public TreeViewLocation() { ChildLocations = new HashSet<TreeViewLocation>(); } public int Id { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public virtual int? ParentLocationId { get; set; } public virtual ICollection<TreeViewLocation> ChildLocations...

Series Introduction and Outline This series is going to walk through building a polished, functioning Windows Phone app from start to finish. The app is called Realworld Stocks and the full source code will be available on CodePlex as the series progresses. I’ll be using Mercurial to encourage forking and maybe even pull requests from developers who want to contribute their own real-world solutions. View the Series Introduction and Outline Choices In the Microsoft world we have no shortage of client and server-side HTTP stacks to choose from. Rather than try to cover every possible combination, and to prevent this topic from getting too long-winded, I will keep this part succinct. Our first major decisions revolve around the following options: SOAP or REST? WCF or ASP.NET MVC? Without getting too deep into it,...