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  • F# Programming: Authoring an F#/C# VSIX Project Template

    F# Programming: Authoring an F#/C# VSIX Project Template

    Sep 11
    26

    Encourage reuse and cut out those repetitive, time-wasting setup chores by creating a Visual Studio Extension project template composed of a C# ASP.NET MVC 3 Web app and two F# libraries. Dan Mohl MSDN Magazine October 2011...

  • Great Free Video Training on ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC

    Great Free Video Training on ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC

    May 11
    16

    We’ve recently published some great end-to-end ASP.NET video training courses on the http://asp.net web-site. Created by Pluralsight (a great .NET training company), these video courses are available free of charge and provide a great way to learn (or brush-up your knowledge of) ASP.NET Web Forms 4 and ASP.NET MVC 3. Each course is taught by a single trainer, and provides a nice end-to-end curriculum (from basic concepts to working with the new Entity Framework “code first” model to securit...

  • ASP.NET MVC 3 and the @helper syntax within Razor

    ASP.NET MVC 3 and the @helper syntax within Razor

    May 11
    13

    ASP.NET MVC 3 supports a new view-engine option called “Razor” (in addition to continuing to support/enhance the existing .aspx view engine). Razor minimizes the number of characters and keystrokes required when writing a view template, and enables a fast, fluid coding workflow. Unlike most template syntaxes, with Razor you do not need to interrupt your coding to explicitly denote the start and end of server blocks within your HTML. The Razor parser is smart enough to infer this from your co...

  • HTML5 Improvements with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update

    HTML5 Improvements with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update

    May 11
    10

    Last 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...

  • EF Code First and Data Scaffolding with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update

    EF Code First and Data Scaffolding with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update

    May 11
    06

    Earlier this week I blogged about the new ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update that we shipped last month. In today’s blog post I’m going to go into more detail about two of the cool new features it brings: Built-in support for EF 4.1 (which includes the new EF “code-first” support) Built-in data scaffolding support within Visual Studio (which enables you to rapidly create data-driven sites) These two features provide a really sweet, and extremely powerful, way to work with data and build d...

  • 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 MVC 3: Implicit and Explicit code nuggets with Razor

    ASP.NET MVC 3: Implicit and Explicit code nuggets with Razor

    Dec 10
    17

    This is another in a series of posts I’m doing that cover some of the new ASP.NET MVC 3 features: New @model keyword in Razor (Oct 19th) Layouts with Razor (Oct 22nd) Server-Side Comments with Razor (Nov 12th) Razor’s @: and <text> syntax (Dec 15th) Implicit and Explicit code nuggets with Razor (today) In today’s post I’m going to discuss how Razor enables you to both implicitly and explicitly define code nuggets within your view templates, and walkthrough some code examples of ...

  • Dec 5th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, Silverlight, Visual Studio

    Dec 5th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, Silverlight, Visual Studio

    Dec 10
    06

    Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my VS 2010 and .NET 4 series for another 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 ASP.NET Code Samples Collection: J.D. Meier has a great post that provides a detailed round-up of ASP.NET code samples and tutorials from a wide variety of sources. Lots of useful pointers. Slash your ASP.NET com...

  • “Unable to evaluate the expression” error in Visual Studio 2010 debugger

    “Unable to evaluate the expression” error in Visual Studio 2010 debugger

    Nov 10
    23

    Last week I had an issue in Visual Studio 2010 debugger in some projects only! When I was looking at the value of variables I was getting an error message saying “Unable to evaluate the expression”! Searching on Connect I have found that someone else had the same issue! Not really a good sign, “Debuging (Evalutation) stops working at times - Unable to evaluate the expression”. I have the same configuration, same issue and can reproduce what is described: I'm on Windows 7 64bit and am usin...

  • London “Guathon” Event with Me on August 13th

    London “Guathon” Event with Me on August 13th

    Aug 10
    02

    The (awesome) UK developer community is holding an all day event with me in London on August 13th. 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 will be a packed day of presentations covering VS 2010, ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC, and Silverlight for Windows Phone 7. Below is the list of talks: VS 2010 and ASP.NET 4 (90 minutes) A demo heavy talk that covers some of the new features and c...