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  • New ASP.NET website launched

    New ASP.NET website launched

    Dec 11
    02

    A 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...

  • MVC Filters: Easily Add Performance Counters to Your MVC Application

    MVC Filters: Easily Add Performance Counters to Your MVC Application

    Jun 11
    30

    Ben Grover adds performance counters to a Model-View-Controller (MVC) app and explains how to use MVC filters to clean up and replace repeated, confusing code that was spread throughout numerous action methods in an application. Ben Grover MSDN Magazine July 2011...

  • Cache Integration: Building and Using Custom OutputCache Providers in ASP.NET

    Cache Integration: Building and Using Custom OutputCache Providers in ASP.NET

    Mar 11
    03

    With the .NET Framework 4.0, you can now boost performance by replacing the default ASP.NET output cache with your own implementation. We show you how to do this with the MongoDB "NoSQL" database in a simple ASP.NET MVC app and then we swap out the custom provider to leverage features of Windows Azure AppFabric. Brandon Satrom MSDN Magazine March 2011...

  • 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...

  • Integrating JavaScript Unit Tests with Visual Studio

    Integrating JavaScript Unit Tests with Visual Studio

    Dec 10
    20

    Modern ASP.NET web applications take full advantage of client-side JavaScript to provide better interactivity and responsiveness. If you are building an ASP.NET application in the right way, you quickly end up with lots and lots of JavaScript code. When writing server code, you should be writing unit tests. One big advantage of unit tests is that they provide you with a safety net that enable you to safely modify your existing code – for example, fix bugs, add new features, and make performa...

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