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April 14th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API and Visual Studio
Apr 1215Here is the latest in my link-listing blog series: ASP.NET Easily overlooked features in VS 11 Express for Web: Good post by Scott Hanselman that highlights a bunch of easily overlooked improvements that are coming to VS 11 (and specifically the free express editions) for web development: unit testing, browser chooser/launcher, IIS Express, CSS Color Picker, Image Preview in Solution Explorer and more. Get Started with ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms: Good 5-part tutorial that walks-through build...
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Using an alternate JSON Serializer in ASP.NET Web API
Mar 1209The new ASP.NET Web API that Microsoft released alongside MVC 4.0 Beta last week is a great framework for building REST and AJAX APIs. I've been working with it for quite a while now and I really like the way it works and the complete set of features it provides 'in the box'. It's about time that Microsoft gets a decent API for building generic HTTP endpoints into the framework. DataContractJsonSerializer sucks As nice as Web API's overall design is one thing still sucks: The built-in JSON S...
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ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta
Feb 1220A few days ago we released the ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta. This is a significant release that brings with it a bunch of great new features and capabilities. The ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta release works with VS 2010 and .NET 4.0, and is side-by-side compatible with prior releases of ASP.NET MVC (meaning you can safely install it and not worry about it impacting your existing apps built with earlier releases). It supports a “go-live” license that allows you to build and deploy production apps with it. Click ...
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TechDays Belgium 2012: a look at interesting sessions
Jan 1231TechDays 2012 Belgium is just 2 weeks away, and it’s time to have a look at the agenda and decide which of the sessions to attend. My highlights are: A Look at ASP.NET MVC 4 - Scott Guthrie MVVM Applied: From Silverlight to Windows Phone to Windows 8 - Laurent Bugnion SignalR. Code, not toothpaste - Maarten Balliauw Building rich Single Page Applications (SPAs) for desktop, mobile, and tablet with ASP.NET MVC 4 - Steve Sanderson But filling in all the slots was a tough decision, esp...
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What’s new in ASP.NET MVC 4: slides and demo are now online
Jan 1217Today I had my first live webcast for Microsoft Belgium, about the new features released with ASP.NET MVC 4 at Build in September. There were around 80+ people registered and around 50 people attending, and almost nobody left before the end of the webcast, so I guess it pretty well. We also are aware there were some glitches in the audio during the async part of the webcast: the audio was also recorded directly from the mic, so the video that will be published in the next week on Channel9 wi...
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The evolution of asynchronous controllers in ASP.NET MVC
Jan 1209Asynchronous operations in ASP.NET MVC have always been left a bit behind. They appeared in ASP.NET MVC 2, remained untouched in v3, but now in MVC 4 (especially in combination with C# 5 and async/await) they reached the same easiness of use of the standard synchronous controller. Now (or better, in a few months with the release of ASP.NET MVC 4, .NET 4.5 and C# 5) you can write public async Task<ViewResult> Stuff() { return View(await DoStuff("Some stuff")); } In this post I’m going to...
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What's new in ASP.NET MVC 4 webcast: 17 January
Dec 1122ASP.NET MVC 4 is the new version of ASP.NET MVC that came out during Build in September: it included a few pretty interesting features like a newly revamped project template, a better asynchronous controller and, the main feature, native support for mobile version of the site, with device detection and mobile only views. Also some productivity enhancement were introduced, like recipes to automate repetitive coding tasks. And finally, if you run ASP.NET MVC 4 on top of ASP.NET 4.5, you also g...
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UGIALT.net conf sessions are published
Dec 1111The voting for the UGIALT.net conference just ended, and just in time for the opening of the registration at noon we published, on the new web site the list of the 19 sessions chosen by the more than 180 voters: Perché a fare i preventivi facciamo così schifo? (Cristiano Rastelli) DDD Brutto Sporco e Cattivo (Alberto Brandolini) Organize your chickens: NuGet for the enterprise (Xavier Decoster) SignalR. Code, not toothpaste. Using SignalR for realtime client/server communication (Maarten ...
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Techniques for real-time client-server communication on the web (SignalR to the rescue)
Nov 1129When building web applications, you often face the fact that HTTP, the foundation of the web, is a request/response protocol. A client issues a request, a server handles this request and sends back a response. All the time, with no relation between the first request and subsequent requests. Also, since its request-based, there is no way to send messages from the server to the client without having the client create a request first. Today users expect that in their projects, sorry, experience...
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I’m Speaking at //BUILD!
Sep 1113If you’re at the BUILD conference in Anaheim, I’ll be speaking in two sessions on Thursday. The first session’s title is a bit of a mouthful. Right now, the Channel 9 link is not up-to-date. Progressively enable the Mobile Web with ASP.NET MVC 4, HTML5 and jQuery Mobile Thursday, 9:00 AM The next generation web is built on HTML5 and JavaScript. You can combine this with jQuery Mobile and give everyone a great experience from tablets to the smallest mobile phone browser. In this session...
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