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Rebuilding CoasterBuzz, Part I: Evolution, and death to WCF
Feb 1229This 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...
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New ASP.NET website launched
Dec 1102A few weeks ago we introduced a beta of a freshly designed http://asp.net website. Today we launched it. Jon, myself, and the team that manages the site took lots of your feedback (lots from the comments of the Beta Blog Post) and did our best to incorporate as much as we could. This is just the start, and we've got lots of plans for the future including responsive design, more text content, localization, more HTML 5, HD Video, closed captioning and lots more. It is a big site with a thousa...
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RFC: New Beta.ASP.net website
Oct 1110Before I worked for the ASP.NET team as I do now, I worked for MSDN. While I was over there, part of my time was spent working on the http://asp.net team. I led the charge to move the site over to Umbraco, and we did. Over the last two years, we have continually made improvements to the .NET (asp.net, silverlight.net, windowsclient.net) sites. In July, the MSDN team announced the release of a new Silverlight site, and today I'm happy to announce the Beta launch of a redesigned ASP.NET websit...
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Microsoft dev stack vNext from Build
Sep 1115Unless you are living under a rock, you have probably heard that two days ago, at Build, Microsoft unveiled the new version of Windows, named Windows 8. Windows 8 This is revolutionary both from the consumers’ and developers’ perspectives. The UI is deeply based on the concept of the tiles of Windows Phone 7.5 “mango” and the Metro design language, and the API are now allowing applications to be written either in C#/C++ and the usual .NET/Win32, or using WinRT, basically an Object Oriented v...
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ASP.NET MVC 3 Docs In Nine Languages
Jun 1127In May, we released a tools update for ASP.NET MVC 3 in nine languages other than English. Today I got the good news that ASP.NET MVC 3 documentation is also now available in those nine languages, which arguably is even more helpful to those learning and using ASP.NET MVC. Japanese: http://msdn.microsoft.com/ja-jp/library/gg416514(VS.98).aspx Korean: http://msdn.microsoft.com/ko-kr/library/gg416514(VS.98).aspx Chinese (Simplified): http://msdn.microsoft.com/zh-cn/library/gg416514(VS.98)....
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NuGet for the Enterprise: NuGet in a Continuous Integration Automated Build System
May 1125I had the pleasure of speaking at TechEd 2011 North America last week in Atlanta. You can see ALL the videos of all the sessions on Channel 9. As an aside, you might notice that they are in the process of organizing video archives of ALL Microsoft developer events at http://channel9.msdn.com/Events. You can even see PDC 1999 if you like or see sessions by Speaker at http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Speakers. Here are all my talks with a horrible headshot that I plan on asking Duncan to swap ou...
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HTML5 Improvements with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update
May 1110Last week I blogged about the new ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update, and then followed it up with a detailed post that covered using the EF Code First and the new Data Scaffolding features in it. Today’s blog post is a continuation of this series and covers some of the new HTML5 improvements with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update release. Project Template Support for HTML5 Semantic Markup The ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update adds support for you to optionally use HTML5 semantic markup when creating new A...
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Mix 11 Videos - Download them all with RSS
Apr 1118Such 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...
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POP Forums v9 Release Candidate for ASP.NET MVC 3 posted to CodePlex!
Apr 1108Get 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...
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Using EntityFramework with ASP.NET MVC 3
Mar 1121A few people have asked about a comment I made on my last post: I might suggest (in this case) creating an ActionFilter and wrapping the Action in a transaction. It’s transparent, it’s fun… and all the kids are doing it. … and it got me thinking. All of the MSDN samples that I’ve seen which talk about using EF or LinqToSql with ASP.NET MVC almost always show the context being created inside an action or being passed in via a repository. This doesn’t have to be the case - in fact it probabl...
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