Deploying your first Facebook App on Azure using ASP.NET MVC Facebook Template
Today we announced the preview for ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update and one of the cool features we added to the update is the Facebook Application Template. This template includes a new library that makes it...
View ArticleEnabling ASP.NET Web API Help Pages for ASP.NET Web Forms Applications
ASP.NET Web API Help Pages is a new preview feature that automatically generates help page style content for your Web API endpoints. You can read more about it at Introducing the ASP.NET Web API Help...
View ArticleInteracting with Databases for Web Developers in VS 2012
VS2012 is out and with it brings a host of developer improvements when dealing with data. This post aims at highlighting a few key improvements which will affect you the most and hopefully you will...
View ArticleASP.NET WebForms Model Binding – Overview
This is the first post in the part of series around Model Binding. In this post I will introduce Model Binding integration in ASP.NET WebForms while focusing on history, benefits, principles and the...
View ArticleCapturing Unhandled Exceptions in ASP.NET Web API's with ELMAH
I'm a fan of using ELMAH to track unhandled exceptions in my ASP.NET applications. If you haven't tried ELMAH, you should definitely check it out. There's even an ELMAH NuGet package so it's trivial to...
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Background – on quirks and compatibilityThe .NET Framework (including ASP.NET) strives to maintain near-100% compatibility when an existing framework is updated on a machine. We try to ensure as much...
View ArticleWeb Publish Updates with Windows Azure SDK 1.8
We recently released new updates to the publishing experience in Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2010 as part of the Windows Azure SDK for .NET 1.8 release. The main new features include web site...
View ArticleASP.NET Web API and HTTP Byte Range Support
Range requests is the ability in HTTP to request a part of a document based on one or more ranges. This can be used in scenarios where the client wants to recover from interrupted data transfers as a...
View ArticleModel Binding Fundamentals
In the previous post we looked at an overview of what is Model Binding and the benefits it brings in for WebForms developers. In this post we will look at the basic fundamentals and how the Model...
View ArticleThe new Facebook application template and library for ASP.NET MVC
If you’re looking to build a Facebook App using ASP.NET MVC, then you’re in the right place. With the release of ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2, we’ve added lots of updates to our Facebook Application...
View ArticleKnockout Intellisense in ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC
WTE (Web Tools Extension) 1.2 RC is part of the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC and it’s available for download from http://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=36053.Knockout Intellisense is an...
View ArticleCSS Auto-Sync and JavaScript Selection Mapping in Page Inspector
With the release of ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC (details here), we have added a couple of new features to Page Inspector in Visual Studio 2012, namely CSS Auto-Sync and JavaScript Selection...
View Article‘Paste JSON As Classes’ in ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC
‘Paste JSON As Classes’ is a cool feature in ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC. This feature will help you generate strongly typed classes in C# or VB.NET from valid JSON text.With ASP.NET and Web Tools...
View ArticleSignalR: Building real time web applications
Note: This sample is targeting 1.0RC1, I will update the post after RTM is released SignalR offers a simple and clean API to write real time web applications where the server needs to continuously push...
View ArticleMVC Single Page Application Template Update for ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC
We added a C# MVC Single Page Application (SPA) template in ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update BUILD Preview. John Papa had written a detailed blog about the preview version. With help of John Papa’s detailed...
View ArticleNew Tutorial Series and Sample Application for ASP.NET MVC 4 with Windows...
On December 19 we published a new tutorial series and accompanying sample application that shows how to work with Windows Azure Storage tables, queues, and blobs in a multi-tier application that uses...
View ArticleDual Mode Sockets - Never create an IPv4 Socket again
The Problem:If you’ve worked with network programing in recent years you’ve probably had to grapple with the IPv4 vs. IPv6 issue at some point. In short, IPv6 is a great new technology for the future...
View ArticleReal Scenario: folder deployment scenarios with MSDeploy
Hi everyone Sayed here. I recently had a customer, Johan, contact me to help with some challenges regarding deployment automation. He had some very specific requirements, but he was able to automate...
View ArticleXDT (web.config) transform engine released on NuGet
We have just released the XDT transform engine on NuGet, with a license which allows you to redistribute the assembly with your own product. . If you are not familiar with XDT it is a XML...
View ArticleIntroducing SvcPerf - An End-to-End trace Analysis tool for WCF
Standardizing on ETWIn 4.5 we introduced ETW tracing for WCF. In the past couple of months we have been trying to establish some common tools that can be used to debug and analyze ETW traces from WCF....
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