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  • The evolution of asynchronous controllers in ASP.NET MVC

    The evolution of asynchronous controllers in ASP.NET MVC

    Jan 12
    09

    Asynchronous operations in ASP.NET MVC have always been left a bit behind. They appeared in ASP.NET MVC 2, remained untouched in v3, but now in MVC 4 (especially  in combination with C# 5 and async/await) they reached the same easiness of use of the standard synchronous controller. Now (or better, in a few months with the release of ASP.NET MVC 4, .NET 4.5 and C# 5) you can write public async Task<ViewResult> Stuff() { return View(await DoStuff("Some stuff")); } In this post I’m going to...

  • Updated Release: Orchard 1.3

    Updated Release: Orchard 1.3

    Oct 11
    03

    Build: 1.3.1Published: 10/3/2010 How to Install Orchard To install Orchard using Web PI, follow these instructions: http://www.orchardproject.net/docs/Installing-Orchard.ashx. Web PI will detect your hardware environment and install the application.Alternatively, to install the release manually, download the Orchard.Web.1.3.1.zip file.http://orchardproject.net/docs/Manually-installing-Orchard-zip-file.ashxThe zip contents are pre-built and ready-to-run. Simply extract the contents of the Orcha...

  • ASP.NET MVC 3 Performance Profiler: MVC-Mini-Profiler

    ASP.NET MVC 3 Performance Profiler: MVC-Mini-Profiler

    Jul 11
    24

    MVC-Mini-Profiler is a free, open-source ASP.NET MVC 3 Performance Profiler on Google Code....

    • MVC3
    • Performance
  • June 26th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, .NET and NuGet

    June 26th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, .NET and NuGet

    Jun 11
    27

    Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my Best of 2010 Summary for links to 100+ other posts I’ve done in the last year. [I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] ASP.NET Introducing new ASP.NET Universal Providers: Great post from Scott Hanselman on the new System.Web.Providers we are working on. This release delivers new ASP.NET Membership, Role Management, Session, Profile providers that work with SQL Ser...

  • Updated Release: Orchard 1.2

    Updated Release: Orchard 1.2

    Jun 11
    13

    Build: 1.2Published: 6/14/2010 How to Install Orchard To install Orchard using Web PI, follow these instructions: http://www.orchardproject.net/docs/Installing-Orchard.ashx. Web PI will detect your hardware environment and install the application.Alternatively, to install the release manually, download the Orchard.Web.1.2..zip file.http://orchardproject.net/docs/Manually-installing-Orchard-zip-file.ashxThe zip contents are pre-built and ready-to-run. Simply extract the contents of the Orchardf...

  • Just released: MvcSiteMapProvider 3.1.0 RC

    Just released: MvcSiteMapProvider 3.1.0 RC

    May 11
    27

    It looks like I’m really cr… ehm… releasing way too much over the past few days, but yes, here’s another one: I just posted MvcSiteMapProvider 3.1.0 RC both on CodePlex and NuGet. The easiest way to get the current bits is this one: As usual, here are the release notes: Created one NuGet package containing both .NET 3.5 and .NET 4.0 assemblies Significantly improved memory usage and performance Medium Trust optimizations DefaultControllerTypeResolver speed improvement Resolve author...

  • Free “Guathon” all day event in London on June 6th

    Free “Guathon” all day event in London on June 6th

    May 11
    24

    The (awesome) UK developer community is holding another all day event with Steve Sanderson and me in London on June 6th. The event is free to attend, and the venue will be in Central London (at the ODEON Covent Garden). The website for the event is here. Content The event goes from 9am to 5pm, and will feature a bunch of great .NET content. The current agenda includes the following talks: Build an app using ASP.NET MVC 3, EF Code First, NuGet and IIS Express (ScottGu) We'll spend 2 ho...

  • New Sessions Released - Web Platform, Web Standards and More

    New Sessions Released - Web Platform, Web Standards and More

    Mar 11
    23

    More sessions just released today (see list below), representing the following session categories: Design, RIA, Services, Web Platform and Web Standards. Browse all released sessions > SESSION TITLE- SPEAKER Designer and Developer: A Case for the Hybrid- Jeff Croft Graphics 3D with Silverlight 5- Aaron Oneal Tips for Improving Performance in Applications Built with Silverlight- Mike Cook 10 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do with Windows Azure- Steve Marx Deliver Content Fast with the...

  • Visual Studio 2010 SP1

    Visual Studio 2010 SP1

    Mar 11
    15

    Last week we shipped Service Pack 1 of Visual Studio 2010 and the Visual Studio Express Tools. In addition to bug fixes and performance improvements, SP1 includes a number of feature enhancements. This includes improved local help support, IntelliTrace support for 64-bit applications and SharePoint, built-in Silverlight 4 Tooling support in the box, unit testing support when targeting .NET 3.5, a new performance wizard for Silverlight, IIS Express and SQL CE Tooling support for web projects...

  • ASP.NET mvcConf Videos Available

    ASP.NET mvcConf Videos Available

    Feb 11
    23

    Earlier this month the ASP.NET MVC developer community held the 2nd annual mvcConf event. This was a free, online conference focused on ASP.NET MVC – with more than 27 talks that covered a wide variety of ASP.NET MVC topics. Almost all of the talks were presented by developers within the community, and the quality and topic diversity of the talks was fantastic. Below are links to free recordings of the talks that you can watch (and optionally download): Scott Guthrie Keynote The NuGet-y...