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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...

  • Hosting the Razor Engine for Templating in Non-Web Applications

    Hosting the Razor Engine for Templating in Non-Web Applications

    Dec 10
    28

    Microsoft’s new Razor HTML Rendering Engine that is currently shipping with ASP.NET MVC previews can be used outside of ASP.NET. Razor is an alternative view engine that can be used instead of the ASP.NET Page engine that currently works with ASP.NET WebForms and MVC. It provides a simpler and more readable markup syntax and is much more light weight in terms of functionality than the full blown WebForms Page engine, focusing only on features that are more along the lines of a pure view engine...

  • Microsoft Introduces WebMatrix

    Microsoft Introduces WebMatrix

    Aug 10
    17

    originally published in CoDe Magazine Editorial Microsoft recently released the first CTP of a new development environment called WebMatrix, which along with some of its supporting technologies are squarely aimed at making the Microsoft Web Platform more approachable for first-time developers and hobbyists. But in the process, it also provides some updated technologies that can make life easier for existing .NET developers. Let’s face it: ASP.NET development isn’t exactly trivial unless y...

  • Microsoft.Data - It’s not as evil as you think

    Microsoft.Data - It’s not as evil as you think

    Aug 10
    04

    I wanted to jump in with my $0.02 (Canadian ) on Microsoft.Data. David Fowler, fellow ASP.Net team member, posted about it earlier today, and the response has been ... active . The message behind most of these responses has been that it encourages bad practices to novice developers. I think there's an important point that's being missed here: It doesn't matter how hard we work, as professional developers, to create clean architectures and abstractions, there's a whole world of novice developer...

  • Microsoft.Data - It’s not as evil as you think

    Microsoft.Data - It’s not as evil as you think

    Aug 10
    04

    I wanted to jump in with my $0.02 (Canadian ) on Microsoft.Data. David Fowler, fellow ASP.Net team member, posted about it earlier today, and the response has been ... active . The message behind most of these responses has been that it encourages bad practices to novice developers. I think there's an important point that's being missed here: It doesn't matter how hard we work, as professional developers, to create clean architectures and abstractions, there's a whole world of novice developer...

  • Microsoft.Data - It’s not as evil as you think

    Microsoft.Data - It’s not as evil as you think

    Aug 10
    03

    I wanted to jump in with my $0.02 (Canadian ) on Microsoft.Data. David Fowler, fellow ASP.Net team member, posted about it earlier today, and the response has been … active . The message behind most of these responses has been that it encourages bad practices to novice developers. I think there’s an important point that’s being missed here: It doesn’t matter how hard we work, as professional developers, to create clean architectures and abstractions, there’s a whole world of novice developers...

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