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  • POP Forums v9.1.0 has been posted to CodePlex!

    POP Forums v9.1.0 has been posted to CodePlex!

    Dec 11
    15

    Finally! After moving, being a dad and engaging in a great deal of home improvement, I finally managed to find time to an update out to POP Forums. I hope to not be that guy anymore, going forever between updates. Release Notes This is the first release for the ASP.NET MVC3 version of POP Forums. It is feature complete, stable, and ready for feedback. For previous release notes, see previous releases. Check out the live preview: http://preview.popforums.com/Forums Setup instructions are ...

  • Free “Guathon” all day event in London on June 6th

    Free “Guathon” all day event in London on June 6th

    May 11
    24

    The (awesome) UK developer community is holding another all day event with Steve Sanderson and me in London on June 6th. The event is free to attend, and the venue will be in Central London (at the ODEON Covent Garden). The website for the event is here. Content The event goes from 9am to 5pm, and will feature a bunch of great .NET content. The current agenda includes the following talks: Build an app using ASP.NET MVC 3, EF Code First, NuGet and IIS Express (ScottGu) We'll spend 2 ho...

  • Great Free Video Training on ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC

    Great Free Video Training on ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC

    May 11
    16

    We’ve recently published some great end-to-end ASP.NET video training courses on the http://asp.net web-site. Created by Pluralsight (a great .NET training company), these video courses are available free of charge and provide a great way to learn (or brush-up your knowledge of) ASP.NET Web Forms 4 and ASP.NET MVC 3. Each course is taught by a single trainer, and provides a nice end-to-end curriculum (from basic concepts to working with the new Entity Framework “code first” model to securit...

  • ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update

    ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update

    May 11
    04

    Three weeks ago we held our MIX 2011 conference in Las Vegas. MIX is one of my favorite events of the year, and the conference always has a ton of great content and announcements. All of the keynotes and breakout sessions from the event can be watched online for free here. I’ll be doing a few posts in the upcoming weeks that also cover some highlights from it. ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update One of the announcements I made in my Day 1 keynote was the release of an ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update. Thi...

  • POP Forums v9 for ASP.NET MVC3 is done!

    POP Forums v9 for ASP.NET MVC3 is done!

    Apr 11
    26

    The release candidate is the final version of v9.0.0. See my previous post for details. Get the bits here: http://popforums.codeplex.com/ Be sure to check out the documentation for information on installation and integration. It will now create all of your database tables for you, for a little less friction in getting set up. Thanks to everyone who offered their feedback and support, especially at Mix during the Open Source Fest. I really had a blast talking to everyone there! ...

  • POP Forums v9 Release Candidate for ASP.NET MVC 3 posted to CodePlex!

    POP Forums v9 Release Candidate for ASP.NET MVC 3 posted to CodePlex!

    Apr 11
    08

    Get the goodies here: http://popforums.codeplex.com/releases/view/63550 Release Notes This is the release candidate for the ASP.NET MVC3 version of POP Forums. It is considered feature complete, stable, and ready for testing and feedback. For previous release notes, see previous releases. Check out the live preview: http://preview.popforums.com/Forums Setup instructions are available in the documentation section. What's new in the RC? Since the second beta: Database, e-mail and user s...

  • POP Forums v9 Beta 2 for ASP.NET MVC 3 posted to CodePlex!

    POP Forums v9 Beta 2 for ASP.NET MVC 3 posted to CodePlex!

    Mar 11
    23

    Get the new bits here: http://popforums.codeplex.com/releases/view/60571 This is the second beta for the ASP.NET MVC3 version of POP Forums. Next step is a release candidate. It is considered feature complete, and ready for testing and feedback. For previous release notes, look here, here, here and here. Check out the live preview: http://preview.popforums.com/Forums Setup instructions are on the home page of this project. What's new in beta two? Since the first beta: Avatars and images...

  • Visual Studio 2010 SP1

    Visual Studio 2010 SP1

    Mar 11
    15

    Last week we shipped Service Pack 1 of Visual Studio 2010 and the Visual Studio Express Tools. In addition to bug fixes and performance improvements, SP1 includes a number of feature enhancements. This includes improved local help support, IntelliTrace support for 64-bit applications and SharePoint, built-in Silverlight 4 Tooling support in the box, unit testing support when targeting .NET 3.5, a new performance wizard for Silverlight, IIS Express and SQL CE Tooling support for web projects...

  • Free Video Training: ASP.NET MVC 3 Features

    Free Video Training: ASP.NET MVC 3 Features

    Mar 11
    10

    A few weeks ago I blogged about a great ASP.NET MVC 3 video training course from Pluralsight that was made available for free for 48 hours for people to watch. The feedback from the people that had a chance to watch it was really fantastic. We also received feedback from people who really wanted to watch it – but unfortunately weren’t able to within the 48 hour window. The good news is that we’ve worked with Pluralsight to make the course available for free again until March 18th. You can wa...

  • ASP.NET mvcConf Videos Available

    ASP.NET mvcConf Videos Available

    Feb 11
    23

    Earlier this month the ASP.NET MVC developer community held the 2nd annual mvcConf event. This was a free, online conference focused on ASP.NET MVC – with more than 27 talks that covered a wide variety of ASP.NET MVC topics. Almost all of the talks were presented by developers within the community, and the quality and topic diversity of the talks was fantastic. Below are links to free recordings of the talks that you can watch (and optionally download): Scott Guthrie Keynote The NuGet-y...