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  • Rebuilding CoasterBuzz, Part III: The architecture using the

    Rebuilding CoasterBuzz, Part III: The architecture using the "Web stack of love"

    Apr 12
    03

    This is the third post in a series about rebuilding one of my Web sites, which has been around for 12 years. I hope to relaunch in the next month or two. More: Part I: Evolution, and death to WCF Part II: Hot data objects I finally hit a point in the re-do of CoasterBuzz where I feel like the major pieces are in place... rewritten, ported and what not, so that I can focus now on front-end design and more interesting creative problems. I've been asked on more than one occasion (OK, just...


  • Open source adventures with... wait for it... Microsoft

    Open source adventures with... wait for it... Microsoft

    Mar 12
    31

    Last week, Microsoft announced that it was going to open source the rest of the ASP.NET MVC Web stack. The core MVC framework has been open source for a long time now, but the other pieces around it are also now out in the wild. Not only that, but it's not what I call "big bang" open source, where you release the source with each version. No, they're actually committing in real time to a public repository. They're also taking contributions where it makes sense. If that weren't exciting enoug...


  • ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Razor and Open Source

    ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Razor and Open Source

    Mar 12
    28

    Microsoft has made the source code of ASP.NET MVC available under an open source license since the first V1 release. We’ve also integrated a number of great open source technologies into the product, and now ship jQuery, jQuery UI, jQuery Mobile, jQuery Validation, Modernizr.js, NuGet, Knockout.js and JSON.NET as part of it. I’m very excited to announce today that we will also release the source code for ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages (aka Razor) under an open source license (Apache 2...


  • ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta

    ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta

    Feb 12
    20

    A 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 ...


  • 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...


  • 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...


  • Special 48-Hour Offer: Free ASP.NET MVC 3 Video Training

    Special 48-Hour Offer: Free ASP.NET MVC 3 Video Training

    Feb 11
    09

    The Virtual ASP.NET MVC Conference (MVCConf) happened earlier today. Several thousand developers attended the event online, and had the opportunity to watch 27 great talks presented by the community. All of the live presentations were recorded, and videos of them will be posted shortly so that everyone can watch them (for free). I’ll do a blog post with links to them once they are available. Special Pluralsight Training Available for Next 48 Hours In my MVCConf keynote this morning, I al...


  • The MVC3 special sauce in POP Forums

    The MVC3 special sauce in POP Forums

    Jan 11
    24

    I was chatting with a friend about why, as much as I would rather not rewrite POP Forums for the bazillionth time, it has actually been a lot of fun, and smooth sailing on MVC. If you haven't been playing along at home, POP Forums is the forum app that I've been maintaining now since the days of ASP.old, in sites like CoasterBuzz. In late 2009, I decided I'd rewrite it from the ground up as an MVC app, but it was slow going after the birth of my child. But when I did find time to write code, e...


  • POP Forums v9 Beta 1 for ASP.NET MVC 3 posted to CodePlex!

    POP Forums v9 Beta 1 for ASP.NET MVC 3 posted to CodePlex!

    Jan 11
    14

    As promised, I posted a beta build of my forum app for ASP.NET MVC 3. Get the new goodies here: http://popforums.codeplex.com/releases/view/58228 This is the first beta for the ASP.NET MVC 3 version of POP Forums. It is nearly feature complete, and ready for testing and feedback. For previous release notes, look here, here and here. Check out the live preview: http://preview.popforums.com/Forums Setup instructions are on the home page of this project. The new hotness in the beta, or what h...


  • Announcing ASP.NET MVC 3 (Release Candidate 2)

    Announcing ASP.NET MVC 3 (Release Candidate 2)

    Dec 10
    11

    Earlier today the ASP.NET team shipped the final release candidate (RC2) for ASP.NET MVC 3. You can download and install it here. Almost there… Today’s RC2 release is the near-final release of ASP.NET MVC 3, and is a true “release candidate” in that we are hoping to not make any more code changes with it. We are publishing it today so that people can do final testing with it, let us know if they find any last minute “showstoppers”, and start updating their apps to use it. We will officially...