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  • April 14th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API and Visual Studio

    April 14th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API and Visual Studio

    Apr 12
    15

    Here is the latest in my link-listing blog series: ASP.NET Easily overlooked features in VS 11 Express for Web: Good post by Scott Hanselman that highlights a bunch of easily overlooked improvements that are coming to VS 11 (and specifically the free express editions) for web development: unit testing, browser chooser/launcher, IIS Express, CSS Color Picker, Image Preview in Solution Explorer and more. Get Started with ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms: Good 5-part tutorial that walks-through build...

  • New Bundling and Minification Support (ASP.NET 4.5 Series)

    New Bundling and Minification Support (ASP.NET 4.5 Series)

    Nov 11
    28

    This is the sixth in a series of blog posts I'm doing on ASP.NET 4.5. The next release of .NET and Visual Studio include a ton of great new features and capabilities. With ASP.NET 4.5 you'll see a bunch of really nice improvements with both Web Forms and MVC - as well as in the core ASP.NET base foundation that both are built upon. Today’s post covers some of the work we are doing to add built-in support for bundling and minification into ASP.NET - which makes it easy to improve the perfor...

  • 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...

  • VS 2010 SP1 (Beta) and IIS Express

    VS 2010 SP1 (Beta) and IIS Express

    Jan 11
    04

    Last month we released the VS 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Beta. You can learn more about the VS 2010 SP1 Beta from Jason Zander’s two blog posts about it, and from Scott Hanselman’s blog post that covers some of the new capabilities enabled with it. You can download and install the VS 2010 SP1 Beta here. IIS Express Earlier this summer I blogged about IIS Express. IIS Express is a free version of IIS 7.5 that is optimized for developer scenarios. We think it combines the ease of use of the...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

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