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  • Building a Self Updating Site Using NuGet

    Building a Self Updating Site Using NuGet

    Jan 11
    16

    For those of you who enjoy learning about a technology via screencast, I’ve recorded a video to accompany and complement this blog post. The screencast shows you what this package does, and the blog post covers more of the implementation details. A key feature of any package manager is the ability to let you know when there’s an update available for a package and let you easily install that update. For example, when we deployed the release candidate for NuGet, the Visual Studio Extension M...

  • Link Rollup: New Documentation and Tutorials from Web Platform and Tools

    Link Rollup: New Documentation and Tutorials from Web Platform and Tools

    Jan 11
    14

    Lots of cool stuff was released yesterday that I mentioned in the post ASP.NET MVC3, WebMatrix, NuGet, IIS Express and Orchard released - The Microsoft January Web Release in Context. The Web Platform Tools Content Team has been working hard on new content and tutorials to get you up to date on all this fun new stuff. Here's a link rollup from Wade's documentation team. Congratulations to Mike Pope, Tim Teebken, Rick Anderson, Tim Ammann, Keith Newman, Erik Reitan and Tom Dykstra on a gre...

  • Unobtrusive Ajax helpers in MVC3

    Unobtrusive Ajax helpers in MVC3

    Dec 10
    27

    ASP.NET MVC has included Ajax helpers since its first release. These allow you to generate “ajax-enabled” html elements, such as hyperlinks or forms that submit data asynchronously. For example, you can use the Ajax.BeginForm method to construct an ajax-enabled form: % using Ajax.BeginFormSave, new AjaxOptions InsertionMode = InsertionMode.Replace, UpdateTargetId = #myDiv % [...]...

  • “Unable to evaluate the expression” error in Visual Studio 2010 debugger

    “Unable to evaluate the expression” error in Visual Studio 2010 debugger

    Nov 10
    23

    Last week I had an issue in Visual Studio 2010 debugger in some projects only! When I was looking at the value of variables I was getting an error message saying “Unable to evaluate the expression”! Searching on Connect I have found that someone else had the same issue! Not really a good sign, “Debuging (Evalutation) stops working at times - Unable to evaluate the expression”. I have the same configuration, same issue and can reproduce what is described: I'm on Windows 7 64bit and am usin...