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Good Book for Learning Meteor: Discover Meteor

2013-05-07T19:33:40Z

A week or so ago, Sacha Greif asked me whether I would be willing to write a review of his new book on Meteor (published today) entitled Discover Meteor. Sacha wrote the book with Tom Coleman. Both Sacha and Tom are very active in the Meteor community – they are responsible for several well-known Meteor [...] Read More......(read more)

April 2013 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit

2013-04-30T15:14:44Z

I’m excited to announce the April 2013 release of the Ajax Control Toolkit. For this release, we focused on improving two controls: the AjaxFileUpload and the MaskedEdit controls. You can download the latest release from CodePlex at http://AjaxControlToolkit.CodePlex.com or, better yet, you can execute the following NuGet command within Visual Studio 2010/2012: There are three [...] Read More......(read more)

An Introduction to Meteor

2013-03-18T00:37:24Z

The goal of this blog post is to give you a brief introduction to Meteor which is a framework for building Single Page Apps. In this blog entry, I provide a walkthrough of building a simple Movie database app. What is special about Meteor? Meteor has two jaw-dropping features: Live HTML – If you make [...] Read More......(read more)

Security Issues with Single Page Apps

2013-03-05T15:21:47Z

Last week, I was asked to do a code review of a Single Page App built using the ASP.NET Web API, Durandal, and Knockout (good stuff!). In particular, I was asked to investigate whether there any special security issues associated with building a Single Page App which are not present in the case of a [...] Read More......(read more)

8 Hours of FREE Training Videos on ASP.NET

2013-02-28T22:55:41Z

Last week Jon Galloway, Damian Edwards and myself (with a raspy throat) were up in Redmond at the Microsoft Campus filming at Microsoft Virtual Academy . They've got a whole studio there so we spent the whole day presenting LIVE. There were several thousand folks watching live and interacting with Very special thanks to Brady Gaster and ASP.NET community members Scott Koon , Peter Mourfield , and Rob Chartier who were furiously handling questions in the chats! Your volunteerism and dedication...(read more)

Building Web Apps with ASP.NET Jump Start - 8 Hours of FREE Training Videos

2013-02-28T22:55:41Z

Released: ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 in Context

2013-02-18T18:30:33Z

Last year the ASP.NET start talking about something we've called "One ASP.NET." I showed some mockups of our ideas last summer at the aspConf Keynote that you can watch online . We also announced then that we would add new features to ASP.NET as out of band releases (OOB) without breaking existing functionality. This means that developers don't have to wait for the next version of Visual Studio for great web development features today. We're aiming to add to ASP.NET and Web...(read more)

Using Durandal to Create Single Page Apps

2013-02-08T19:15:57Z

A few days ago, I gave a talk on building Single Page Apps on the Microsoft Stack. In that talk, I recommended that people use Knockout, Sammy, and RequireJS to build their presentation layer and use the ASP.NET Web API to expose data from their server. After I gave the talk, several people contacted me [...] Read More......(read more)

Building Single Page Apps on the Microsoft Stack

2013-02-06T16:07:23Z

Thank you everyone who came to my talk last night on Building Single Page Apps on the Microsoft Stack. I’ve attached the slides and code samples below. Here’s a quick summary of the talk. I argued that Single Page Apps are better than traditional Server Side Apps because: Single Page Apps are Stateful – In [...] Read More......(read more)

Integrating Mozilla Persona with ASP.NET

2013-01-24T23:56:21Z

ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 is coming soon , but one of the features of ASP.NET that you can use TODAY is support for Google, Twitter, Microsoft and Facebook logins out of the box with ASP.NET templates. I show how OAuth in ASP.NET works in this 5 minute video . We are also continuing to look at ways to make membership easier in coming versions of ASP.NET like including things like this out of the box. Mozilla has a new identity system called Mozilla Persona that use browserid technology to let...(read more)

New January 2013 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit

2013-01-24T19:40:37Z

I am super excited to announce the January 2013 release of the Ajax Control Toolkit! I have one word to describe this release and that word is “Charts” – we’ve added lots of great new chart controls to the Ajax Control Toolkit. You can download the new release directly from http://AjaxControlToolkit.CodePlex.com – or, just fire [...] Read More......(read more)

NuGet Package(s) of the Week #12 - Accessing Google Spreadsheets with GData from C# and hosting Razor Templates to generate HTML from a Console App

2013-01-10T00:48:05Z

Sometimes I write apps for charities on the side. Recently I've been doing some charity coding on the side for The Red Pump Project . They are a non-profit focused on raising awareness about the impact of HIV/AIDS on women and girls. I encourage you to check them out, donate some money, or join their mailing list . Side Note: Folks often ask me how they can get more experience and wonder if Open Source is a good way. It is! But, charities often need code too! You may be able to have the best...(read more)

ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 (Release Candidate)

2012-12-13T20:06:42Z

I've talked before in presentations that the ASP.NET and Web Tools team has been slowly externalizing pieces of ASP.NET. You've seen it in many pieces of the ASP.NET runtime moving into NuGet while also being open sourced , and you've seen it as we've moved big chunks of the "tooling" (that means the menus and dialogs you interact with in ASP.NET) into external installers. Why are we doing this? Because the Web moves faster than Visual Studio does. We want to be able to...(read more)

Windows 8 Apps Unleashed Now in Bookstores!

2012-12-04T15:20:22Z

My book Windows 8 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript Unleashed is now in bookstores! Learn how to create Metro apps Windows 8 apps with JavaScript. And the book is in color! All of the code listings and illustrations are in color. Why build Windows 8 apps? When you create a Windows 8 app, you can [...] Read More......(read more)

My Windows 8 App in Windows Store

2012-10-30T16:18:03Z

Finally, you have a good reason to upgrade to Windows 8! My Brain Eaters app was just accepted into the Windows Store. Just in time for Halloween! The Brain Eaters app is a sample app from my soon to be released book Windows 8 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript. The game illustrates several important programming [...] Read More......(read more)