A few years ago, when I had begun learning ASP.NET and Web Development, I found a nice and lovely guy who was very professional at that age. We were both university students (in different universities) then and was studying Mathematics; me, Pure Mathematics and he, Applied Mathematics. Almost every night, we were chatting using poor dialup connections and he was opening new doors of knowledge to me. He was a professional and pioneer developer and coder at age of 20-21.

I’m talking about my dear friend, Soheil Rashidi. But you may ask why I’m talking about this nostalgia?! Soheil had a website dedicated to Persian language developers to provide articles and useful resources for them. We call it iDevCenter (or iDC). About 2-3 years ago Soheil suddenly stopped iDC because of what he calls an ‘Unresponsive Model’. Now I can officially and proudly announce re-launch of one of my most favorite Persian websites in field of coding and development. Yeah iDevCenter.com is back!

New iDevCenter is completely different from what is was 2 years ago. iDevCenter v3.0 is a powerful Link Directory + a nice Wiki. All old iDevCenter members can login to their accounts using the same username and password (except one poor person that only I and Soheil know ). All information are categorized using tags and you can easily find relevant information.

If you’re Iranian or know Persian language I invite you to take a deep look at how Soheil rocks on iDevCenter.com!

And special message for my dear Soheil: A world of congratulations and sweet dreams for you :-*

Thanks to ASP.NET MVC and C# Extension Methods, many developers in the community have been creating very useful HtmlHelper extensions and some of them are sharing their works. Today I find this nice one for Gravatar (via Simone’s tweet) and after reading that post this thought came to my mind to gather such Helpers somewhere so that others can access them easily and quickly. This post will be the first step to gather and share such Helpers (If I feel it can be more useful than what I’m thinking now, I may launch a dedicated website for this purpose!).

At this early stage I put some links without any categorization, but after my list grows up I try to update my list and categorize them.

If you have written a nice HtmlHelper for ASP.NET MVC and want to share it with others please send me a message or a reply to mahdi on twitter. I update this post as soon as I find new Helpers so you can check it frequently. This link is shorter to remember: http://tinyurl.com/mvchelper

- MVC HtmlHelper for Gravatar
- Paging HtmlHelper for ASP.NET MVC
- Marquee and GridView HtmlHelpers for ASP.NET MVC
- ReCAPTCHA HtmlHelper (and also a solution to use ReCAPTCHA in ASP.NET MVC)
- ASP.Net MVC Extension method to create a Security Aware Html.ActionLink
- CheckboxList Helper