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  • Repaving your PC: the easier way

    Repaving your PC: the easier way

    Nov 11
    28

    It"s been a while since I had to repave my laptop. I have a Windows Home Server (WHS) at home which images my PC almost daily and allows restoring it to a given point in time in less than 30 minutes. Which is awesome! And which is how I usually restore my PC into a stable state. Over the past year some hardware changes have been made of which the most noteworthy is the replacement of the existing hard drive with an SSD. A great addition, and it was easy to restore as well: swap the disks and r...


  • Link Rollup: New Documentation and Tutorials from Web Platform and Tools

    Link Rollup: New Documentation and Tutorials from Web Platform and Tools

    Jan 11
    14

    Lots of cool stuff was released yesterday that I mentioned in the post ASP.NET MVC3, WebMatrix, NuGet, IIS Express and Orchard released - The Microsoft January Web Release in Context. The Web Platform Tools Content Team has been working hard on new content and tutorials to get you up to date on all this fun new stuff. Here's a link rollup from Wade's documentation team. Congratulations to Mike Pope, Tim Teebken, Rick Anderson, Tim Ammann, Keith Newman, Erik Reitan and Tom Dykstra on a gre...


  • Hey .NET Developers! Its Christmas All Over Again!

    Hey .NET Developers! Its Christmas All Over Again!

    Jan 11
    14

    Today was a great day to be a .NET developer. I felt like a five year old on Christmas morning. I had that feeling you get when you just finished opening all your gifts and you are not sure what you want to play with first. Just in case you are living under a rock, here is a quick summary of what I found under the Christmas tree today. MVC 3 – Its Finally Here Today MVC3 with Razor was released. This means that we can finally avoid paying the angle bracket tax. The new razor syntax will mak...


  • Hosting the Razor Engine for Templating in Non-Web Applications

    Hosting the Razor Engine for Templating in Non-Web Applications

    Dec 10
    28

    Microsoft’s new Razor HTML Rendering Engine that is currently shipping with ASP.NET MVC previews can be used outside of ASP.NET. Razor is an alternative view engine that can be used instead of the ASP.NET Page engine that currently works with ASP.NET WebForms and MVC. It provides a simpler and more readable markup syntax and is much more light weight in terms of functionality than the full blown WebForms Page engine, focusing only on features that are more along the lines of a pure view engine...


  • July 9th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, Silverlight, WPF, VS 2010

    July 9th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, Silverlight, WPF, VS 2010

    Jul 10
    09

    Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my VS 2010 and .NET 4 series and ASP.NET MVC 2 series for other 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 Extending ASP.NET Output Caching: Scott Mitchell has a nice article that discusses how to take advantage of ASP.NET 4’s extensible cache provider API to implement richer output caching mechanisms...



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