ASP.NET MVC, Data Access, and Deployment Content Maps Published
We are pleased to announce the publication on the ASP.NET site of three guides to ASP.NET documentation resources: ASP.NET MVC 4 Content MapASP.NET Data Access Content MapASP.NET Deployment Content...
View ArticleGetting started with ASP.NET WebAPI OData in 3 simple steps
With the upcoming ASP.NET 2012.2 release, we’ll be adding support for OData to WebAPI. In this blog post, I’ll go over the three simple steps you’ll need to go through to get your first OData service...
View ArticleProtect your Queryable API with the validation feature in ASP.NET Web API OData
In the previous blog post, you can see how easy it is to enable OData query syntax for a particular action using Web API OData. Simply add a Queryable attribute to your action as follows, and you are...
View ArticleGetting a MIME type from a file extension in ASP.NET 4.5
If you've ever implemented a file upload or download scenario in ASP.NET, you've likely come across the situation of having to provide a MIME type based off of a file extension. IIS does this...
View ArticlePre-release of ASP.NET Scaffolding with a Web Forms scaffold generator
Today we are sharing a pre-release build of a new code generation framework known as ASP.NET Scaffolding, as well as a scaffold generator (code generator) for Web Forms. The Web Forms scaffold...
View ArticleA Message Flow in ASP.NET Web API OData
One of the biggest benefits that you have with ASP.NET Web API is that it gives 100% transparency of the source code because it is open source. You can easily enlist in the code repository and add the...
View ArticleMVC Single Page Application Template for ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2
With the final release of ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2, we refreshed single page application page on asp.net . It talks about KnockoutJS Template and introduced 4 community created SPA templates that...
View ArticleTranslating OData queries to HQL
AspNet Web API OData makes it really simple to expose your IQueryable backend to be queried using the OData query syntax. Check out some samples here. If you are building using Entity Framework as your...
View ArticleDisabling Knockout Intellisense
Web Tools Extensions 1.2, which is part for the Web Platform Installer package named “Windows Azure SDK for .NET (VS 2012) 1.8.1 – February 2013” contains a new feature which provides Intellisense in...
View ArticleVisual Studio Web Deployment Tutorial Series Updated for Windows Azure and...
This week we published an updated version of the popular 12-part tutorial series that shows how to deploy an ASP.NET web application with SQL Server databases. Here are links to the new tutorials, with...
View ArticleASP.NET Web API: Using Namespaces to Version Web APIs
In this post, I’ll show how to extend the routing logic in ASP.NET Web API, by creating a custom controller selector. Suppose that you want to version your web API by defining URIs like the...
View ArticleDeploy a Secure ASP.NET MVC application with OAuth, Membership and SQL Database
This tutorial shows you how to build a secure ASP.NET MVC 4 web application that enables users to log in with credentials from Facebook, Yahoo, and Google. You will also deploy the application to...
View ArticleASP.NET MVC Facebook Birthday App
Tom Dykstra and I have published a really cool tutorial on creating a MVC FB birthday app. You can test the app out by clicking on the FB link below:https://apps.facebook.com/birthdayapp-mvc/The image...
View ArticleTutorial Series on Model Binding with ASP.NET Web Forms
I have written a tutorial series that shows how to use model binding with ASP.NET Web Forms. You might be familiar with the model binding concept from ASP.NET MVC, but with ASP.NET 4.5, model binding...
View ArticleDebugging ASP.NET Web API with Route Debugger
Tutorial and Tool written by Troy Dai (Twitter @troy_dai) with assistance from Rick Anderson (Twitter @RickAndMSFT)Search for “asp.net web api routing” on stackoverflow, you’ll find many questions. How...
View ArticleXDT (XML Document Transform) released on codeplex.com
In Visual Studio 2010 we introduced a simple and straight forward method of transforming web.config during publishing/packaging. This support is called XML Document Transform, aka XDT. It allows you to...
View ArticleSeeking Feedback on Alternative Formats for ASP.NET MVC and Deployment...
The ASP.NET content maps are lists of resources that we have reviewed and recommend. The content maps have been popular in their present form, but we’re looking at ways to improve them, such as by...
View ArticlePlease update to the latest version of Web Essentials 2012 after installing...
After releasing ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2, which is also included in Visual Studio 2012 update 2, we’ve received a few customer feedback about their VS shows an error dialog saying:An exception has...
View ArticleASP.NET hosts six community created SPA templates now
Since announcement of 4 community created Single Page Application templates when releasing ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 in February 2013, the community has done some updates to the templates and...
View ArticleDataTable using SignalR+AngularJS+EntityFramework
SignalR brought developers an easier way to build real-time, very responsive web applications. But, how does it play with other available technologies? I took a couple of days to implement a very...
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