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  • 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...

  • Automating Deployment with Microsoft Web Deploy

    Automating Deployment with Microsoft Web Deploy

    Sep 10
    13

    This is the twenty-eighth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. This blog post continues a series of posts I’m doing that cover the new improvements we made around web deployment. In my first post in the deployment series I provided an overview of the new VS 2010 Web Deployment features. In today’s post I’m going to be discussing Microsoft Web Deploy – which is a free server technology that enables a comprehensive publishing and deployment mechanism. Web D...

  • Using EF “Code First” with an Existing Database

    Using EF “Code First” with an Existing Database

    Aug 10
    04

    Last month I blogged about the new Entity Framework 4 “code first” development option. EF “code-first” enables a pretty sweet code-centric development workflow for working with data. It enables you to: Work with data without ever having to open a designer or define an XML mapping file Define model objects by simply writing “plain old classes” with no base classes required Use a “convention over configuration” approach that enables database persistence without explicitly configuring anyt...

  • Introducing IIS Express

    Introducing IIS Express

    Jun 10
    29

    Developers today build and test ASP.NET sites and applications using one of two web-servers: The ASP.NET Development Server that comes built-into Visual Studio The IIS Web Server that comes built-into Windows Both of the above options have their pros and cons, and many ASP.NET developers have told us: “I wish I could have the ease of use of the ASP.NET Development Server, but still have all the power and features of IIS”. Today I’m happy to announce a new, free option that we are enab...

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