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  • Rebuilding CoasterBuzz, Part II: Hot data objects

    Rebuilding CoasterBuzz, Part II: Hot data objects

    Mar 12
    19

    This is the second post, originally from my personal blog, in a series about rebuilding one of my Web sites, which has been around for 12 years. More: Part I: Evolution, and death to WCF After the rush to get moving on stuff, I temporarily lost interest. I went almost two weeks without touching the project, in part because the next thing on my backlog was doing up a bunch of administrative pages. So boring. Unfortunately, because most of the site's content is user-generated, you need some...

  • Rebuilding CoasterBuzz, Part I: Evolution, and death to WCF

    Rebuilding CoasterBuzz, Part I: Evolution, and death to WCF

    Feb 12
    29

    This is a repost from my personal blog... Last weekend, I showed a very early behind-the-scenes preview of what will eventually be the next version of CoasterBuzz (the fifth major revision in 12 years) to some folks that participated in the PointBuzz off-season tour at Cedar Point. It's very early in the process, but I thought it would be fun to talk about some of the things that have changed over the years. This series of posts probably won't mean much to non-code-monkeys, but it's fun for...

  • Mix 11 Videos - Download them all with RSS

    Mix 11 Videos - Download them all with RSS

    Apr 11
    18

    Such a fun time was had at Mix 11 this last week in Vegas. I only saw a few talks as I was busy presenting, but now as I sit at home on my first day back, I say to myself, Self, how can I get all the Mix videos at once? First, you can watch all the videos online at http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MIX/MIX11 Second, you can get them via RSS. Most major browsers are hiding the RSS button these days, but the discovery metadata is all still there. In IE9, for example, if you show the Command B...

  • 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...

  • ASP.NET and HTML5 Local Storage

    ASP.NET and HTML5 Local Storage

    Jan 11
    12

    My favorite feature of HTML5, hands-down, is HTML5 local storage (aka DOM storage). By taking advantage of HTML5 local storage, you can dramatically improve the performance of your data-driven ASP.NET applications by caching data in the browser persistently. Think of HTML5 local storage like browser cookies, but much better. Like cookies, local storage is persistent. When you add something to browser local storage, it remains there when the user returns to the website (possibly days or month...

  • Code Samples from Philly Dot Net WCF Fire Starter Event - 9/18/2010

    Code Samples from Philly Dot Net WCF Fire Starter Event - 9/18/2010

    Sep 10
    22

    This past Saturday (9/18/2010), the WCF Fire Starter Event was held at Microsoft's Malvern, PA office. Presenters included Developer Evangelist Dani Diaz, Microsoft MVP and industry expert Miguel Castro and Microsoft MVP and Philly Dot Not/Philly Code Camp organizer Bill Wolff. The event focused on WCF and REST in general. With respect to REST, Dani asked me if I would be interested in presenting ASP MVC's inherent RESTful capabilities. I was honored to be asked and gladly accepted the invitat...

  • July 9th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, Silverlight, WPF, VS 2010

    July 9th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, Silverlight, WPF, VS 2010

    Jul 10
    09

    Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my VS 2010 and .NET 4 series and ASP.NET MVC 2 series for other on-going blog series I’m working on. [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] ASP.NET Extending ASP.NET Output Caching: Scott Mitchell has a nice article that discusses how to take advantage of ASP.NET 4’s extensible cache provider API to implement richer output caching mechanisms...

  • What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0 Part Two: WebForms and Visual Studio Enhancements

    What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0 Part Two: WebForms and Visual Studio Enhancements

    May 10
    04

    In the last installment I talked about the core changes in the ASP.NET runtime that I’ve been taking advantage of. In this column, I’ll cover the changes to the Web Forms engine and some of the cool improvements in Visual Studio that make Web and general development easier. WebForms The WebForms engine is the area that has received most significant changes in ASP.NET 4.0. Probably the most widely anticipated features are related to managing page client ids and of ViewState on WebForm page...

  • ASP.NET MVC 2 Released

    ASP.NET MVC 2 Released

    Mar 10
    12

    ASP.NET MVC 2 is out. This means, it's released. It's final. Use it. Love it. You can download it directly, or install it (and whatever else you like) with the Web Platform Installer: ScottGu has many details in his post. There's lots of resources to check out: What's new in ASP.NET MVC Whitepaper ASP.NET MVC 2 adds a bunch of new capabilities and features. ScottGu has a blog series about some of the new features, and will be covering them in more depth in the weeks ahead. Some of t...

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