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Microsoft dev stack vNext from Build
Sep 1115Unless you are living under a rock, you have probably heard that two days ago, at Build, Microsoft unveiled the new version of Windows, named Windows 8. Windows 8 This is revolutionary both from the consumers’ and developers’ perspectives. The UI is deeply based on the concept of the tiles of Windows Phone 7.5 “mango” and the Metro design language, and the API are now allowing applications to be written either in C#/C++ and the usual .NET/Win32, or using WinRT, basically an Object Oriented v...
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The history of ASP.NET MVC, so far
Jun 1129This post is a mile high overview of the history of ASP.NET MVC, the features it brought with the various versions and the extensibility points introduced. I am starting to work on both a series of webcasts and articles and I was doing some preparatory work, collecting information on the various features and extensibility points that got into the various (official) releases of ASP.NET MVC, so I thought it could have been useful to share my little summary. There have been 3 major official r...
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June 26th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, .NET and NuGet
Jun 1127Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my Best of 2010 Summary for links to 100+ other posts I’ve done in the last year. [I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] ASP.NET Introducing new ASP.NET Universal Providers: Great post from Scott Hanselman on the new System.Web.Providers we are working on. This release delivers new ASP.NET Membership, Role Management, Session, Profile providers that work with SQL Ser...
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Creating a Custom ASP.NET MVC Project Template
Jun 1106When you create a new ASP.NET MVC 3 project, the new project wizard dialog contains several options for different MVC project templates: Empty Internet Application Intranet Application (new in the April 2011 Tools update) There’s a lot of white space in that dialog. To many of you, all that unsullied territory smells like opportunity. When I talk about this dialog, I go to great pains to tell folks that, yes!, you too can extend that dialog and add your own project templates in there...
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Changing Base Type Of A Razor View
Feb 1121Within a Razor view, you have access to a base set of properties (such as Html, Url, Ajax, etc.) each of which provides methods you can use within the view. For example, in the following view, we use the Html property to access the TextBox method. @Html.TextBox("SomeProperty") Html is a property of type HtmlHelper and there are a large number of useful extension methods that hang off this type, such as TextBox. But where did the Html property come from? It’s a property of System.We...
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