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

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 building an application using ASP.NET Web Forms and highlights some of the nice improvements coming with ASP.NET 4.5. What is New in Razor V2 and What Else is New in Razor V2 : Great posts by Andrew Nurse, a dev on the ASP.NET team, about some of the new improvements...

HTML5 Form Validation

The latest versions of Google Chrome (16+), Mozilla Firefox (8+), and Internet Explorer (10+) all support HTML5 client-side validation. It is time to take HTML5 validation seriously. The purpose of the blog post is to describe how you can take advantage of HTML5 client-side validation regardless of the type of application that you are building. [...] Read More...

Introduction to the ASP.NET Web API

I am a huge fan of Ajax. If you want to create a great experience for the users of your website – regardless of whether you are building an ASP.NET MVC or an ASP.NET Web Forms site — then you need to use Ajax. Otherwise, you are just being cruel to your customers. We use [...] Read More...

ASP.NET MVC + Selenium + IISExpress

The goal of this blog entry is to explain how you can create integration tests for ASP.NET MVC applications by using a combination of Selenium WebDriver and IISExpress. Integration tests are useful when you want to test an entire user story. For example, you might want to test whether a user can successfully add an item to a shopping cart. Adding an item to a shopping cart might require the execution of C# code, database code, and JavaScript code. Using an integration test, you can verify that the entire process of buying an item from your website works. Typically, an integration test is contrasted with a unit test . A unit test is used to test a unit of code in isolation. A unit test is typically used to verify the behavior of a single method...

ASP.NET Connections Fall 2011 Slides and Code

Thanks everyone who came to my talks at ASP.NET Connections in Las Vegas! There was a definite theme to my talks this year…taking advantage of JavaScript to build a rich presentation layer. I gave the following three talks: JsRender Templates – Originally, I was scheduled to give a talk on jQuery Templates. However, jQuery Templates has been deprecated and JsRender is the new technology which replaces jQuery Templates. In the talk, I give plenty of code samples of using JsRender. You can download the slides and code samples RIGHT HERE HTML5 – In this talk, I focused on the features of HTML5 which are the most interesting to developers building database-driven Web applications. In particular, I discussed Web Sockets, Web workers, Web Storage...

Sample Code and Slides from DevConnection Germany

Thank you everyone who came to my three talks this week at DevConnections Germany! I really enjoyed my time in Karlsruhe. Here are the slides and sample code for the three talks: jQuery Templates In this talk, I discuss how you can take advantage of jQuery templates when building both ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC applications. I demonstrate several advanced features of templates such as wrapped templates and remote templates. Download the slides Download the code HTML5 In this talk, I discuss the features of HTML5 which matter most when building database-driven web applications. I demonstrate WebSockets, Web Workers, Web Storage, IndexedDB, and Offline Web Applications. Download the slides Download the code jQuery + OData In this talk,...

jQuery Templates Talk Slides and Code

Thank you everyone who came to my talk yesterday at ASP.NET Connections on jQuery Templates. Click the link at the end of this blog entry to download the slides and code. Some of the more interesting code samples include: RemoteBetter.aspx – Demonstrates how to get Intellisense when creating a template by placing the template in an external user control. TemplateControl.aspx – Demonstrates how to get Intellisense when creating a template by using a custom ASP.NET ClientTemplate control. CRUD.aspx – Demonstrates how to create a Web Forms applications that uses jQuery Templates and WCF services to make a Create, Read, Update, Delete database-driven Movie application. Download the Slides and Code Read More...

jQuery, jQuery UI, jQuery Validate Sample Code

Thank you everyone who attended my half-day workshop on jQuery and ASP.NET at ASP.NET Connections in Florida! You can download the slide deck and all of the code from the workshop by clicking the link at the bottom of this blog post. There are about 40 code samples that demonstrate a wide range of jQuery features including selectors, events, animation, Ajax, jQuery UI, the templates plugin, the data-link plugin, the globalization plugin, and the jQuery validate plugin. Here is a description of some of the more interesting code samples: 2_Ajax\2_PageMethod.aspx – Demonstrates how you can call a Web Forms page method using jQuery 2_Ajax\5_OData.aspx – Demonstrates how to call the Netflix.com odata service using jQuery to retrieve movie information...

Feb 2nd Links: Visual Studio, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, JQuery, Windows Phone

Here 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 ] Community News MVCConf Conference Next Tuesday : Attend the free, online ASP.NET MVC Conference being organized by the community next Tuesday.  Here is a list of some of the talks you can watch live. Visual Studio HTML5 and CSS3 in VS 2010 SP1 : Good post from the Visual Studio web tools team that talks about the new support coming in VS 2010 SP1 for HTML5 and CSS3. Database Deployment with the VS 2010 Package/Publish Database Tool : Rachel Appel has a nice post that covers how to enable...

Announcing release of ASP.NET MVC 3, IIS Express, SQL CE 4, Web Farm Framework, Orchard, WebMatrix

I’m excited to announce the release today of several products: ASP.NET MVC 3 NuGet IIS Express 7.5 SQL Server Compact Edition 4 Web Deploy and Web Farm Framework 2.0 Orchard 1.0 WebMatrix 1.0 The above products are all free. They build upon the .NET 4 and VS 2010 release, and add a ton of additional value to ASP.NET (both Web Forms and MVC) and the Microsoft Web Server stack. ASP.NET MVC 3 Today we are shipping the final release of ASP.NET MVC 3.  You can download and install ASP.NET MVC 3 here .  The ASP.NET MVC 3 source code (released under an OSI-compliant open source license) can also optionally be downloaded here . ASP.NET MVC 3 is a significant update that brings with it a bunch of great features.  Some of the improvements...