Articles : Page 1 of 2

  • New ASP.NET website launched

    New ASP.NET website launched

    Dec 11
    02

    A few weeks ago we introduced a beta of a freshly designed http://asp.net website. Today we launched it. Jon, myself, and the team that manages the site took lots of your feedback (lots from the comments of the Beta Blog Post) and did our best to incorporate as much as we could. This is just the start, and we've got lots of plans for the future including responsive design, more text content, localization, more HTML 5, HD Video, closed captioning and lots more. It is a big site with a thousa...

  • Scott Hanselman's 2011 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

    Scott Hanselman's 2011 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

    Dec 11
    01

    Everyone collects utilities, and most folks have a list of a few that they feel are indispensable. Here's mine. Each has a distinct purpose, and I probably touch each at least a few times a week. For me, util means utilitarian and it means don't clutter my tray. If it saves me time, and seamlessly integrates with my life, it's the bomb. Many/most are free some aren't. Those that aren't free are very likely worth your 30-day trial, and perhaps your money. Here are most of the contents of my ...

  • 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...

  • What I liked of Agile.NET 2011 Europe

    What I liked of Agile.NET 2011 Europe

    Oct 11
    20

    A few weeks ago I attended the Agile.NET 2011 Europe conference, in Gent. In this post I just want collect some links to the slides of the event, and give some personal comments on the sessions and topics. Agile from A to Z It all started very early on Monday (probably it’s standard here in Belgium, but it’s my first conference that starts with the first session at 9:00am) with a nice keynote from Jon Jagger, titled “Agile from A to Z”. It was a nice collections of quotes and facts about Agi...

  • 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...

  • Announcing the ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate

    Announcing the ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate

    Nov 10
    09

    This morning the ASP.NET team shipped the ASP.NET MVC 3 RC (release candidate). You can download it here. ASP.NET MVC 3 is a pretty sweet release, and adds a ton of new functionality and refinements. It is also backwards compatible with ASP.NET MVC V1 and V2 – which makes it easy to upgrade existing apps (read the release notes for the exact steps to do so). You can learn more about some of the great capabilities in ASP.NET MVC 3 from previous blog posts I’ve done about it: Introducing Ra...

  • Hand picked sessions from PDC2010

    Hand picked sessions from PDC2010

    Oct 10
    29

    If you are not living under a rock, probably you know that yesterday (October 28th) the PDC2010 started. This year’s format is quite different from the other years’ one: just 2 days, hosted inside Microsoft Campus, all sessions (not just the keynotes) available live and some sessions have been pre-recorded to give more content than it could fit into just 2 days. And they developed a great website so that people could watch the whole conference from home (of course, they wouldn’t get the WP7 ph...