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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 released 2 more templates: Backbone template and Breeze/Angular template.  You can view the details and download the templates at http://www.asp.net/single-page-application/overview/introduction/other-libraries .  To use these templates, please make sure you installed Visual Studio 2012 Update 2, which included ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2. Template’s website (if have any) and source location are listed here: Backbone Template https://github.com/kazimanzurrashid/AspNetMvcBackboneJsSpa Breeze/Angular template http://www.breezejs.com/samples...

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 to the community is deeply appreciated! Let's give them a hand, eh? Jon worked very hard to put together a great day of content based on the successful Web Camps classes we've given all over the world. We took all this and worked to update it...

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 you can install as MVC templates. There are four improvements for the MVC SPA template RTM release over the RC release that worth a note. Antiforgery support for Web API calls The ValidateAntiForgeryToken filter only works on MVC calls. Web API doesn't have a default Antiforgery filter yet. We implemented attribute “ValidateHttpAntiForgeryToken” inside Filters\ValidateHttpAntiForgeryTokenAttribute.cs to support antiforgery in Web API calls.  You can see section Anti-CSRF in KnockoutJS Template article for more information. ValidateHttpAntiForgeryToken...

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 Tools every 6 months. For those that don't want to wait, Mads and the team also started a feature playground called Web Essentials . This is an extension to Visual Studio that updates all the time with ideas and brainstorms about how VS can be an...

ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 is coming soon , and one of the features 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. Mozilla has a new identity system called Mozilla Persona that use browserid technology to let users log in to your site without creating a custom login or username. I wanted to see how Persona would work in ASP.NET and hacked up a prototype (with some sanity checking from my buddy Hao Kung). There's some comments and some TODOs, but it's a decent proof of concept. First, I read the Mozilla Persona Developer docs and...

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 feedback and sample code, we’ve rewritten and reorganized the JavaScript code to make it more structured in RC. We really appreciate the help from John Papa. He just wrote another blog about SPA template in RC version . The major improvement for the MVC Single Page Template RC release includes the following: 1. Added VB MVC SPA template for .net framework 4.5 and 4.0. 2. Added WebAPI HelpPage support 3. Moved all the application specific JavaScript files to Scripts/app folder 4. Redo the datacontext, model and viewmodel files to make cleaner separation...

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 offer a stable ASP.NET core that you can count on while being able to offer new and powerful features more often as needed. Visual Studio itself has moved to a faster update model and recently released Visual Studio 2012.1 (that's Visual Studio 2012...

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 easier to develop Facebook applications using ASP.NET MVC. Here is the tutorial to learn more about this template. In this post, I won’t be going too deep into the implementation of the app, instead I’ll focus on the deployment of the app on Azure. Disclaimer: This template is still in a preview state. The APIs could change significantly before the final release. Prerequisites Visual Studio 2012 + Azure SDK ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update (preview) A Windows Azure account A Facebook account Getting started Here we are going to deploy the project created...

I really enjoy working on and thinking about mobile websites . There's something about making an experience great on a pocket supercomputer phone that is so much more satisfying than a desktop. I actually got this blog looking nice on mobile devices back in 2006 when nobody was mobile except doctors and, well, all of us techies here on the blogs. I've talked about the importance of a good mobile site before in posts like Create a great mobile experience for your website today. Please. However, some folks had asked me if I'd do a post on how to do a combination Desktop and Mobile site using ASP.NET MVC similar to the examples I used in my talks in Russia on mobile earlier this year. (There's video of those ASP.NET mobile presentations...

Did you notice the release of WebMatrix 2 ? WebMatrix is a free, lightweight web development tool introduced in 2010 . It's focus is on simplifying the web development experience for ASP.NET and PHP, and more recently node. Rob Conery actually turned me onto WebMatrix and we use it for the This Developer's Life Podcast website. I recommend it for students, designers, and web pros that either don't need or don't want the whole Visual Studio experience. It's also a nice companion to Sublime Text 2. There's even Git extensions, LESS, easy deployment and more for the front end developer. If you want to download WebMatrix 2 and get started, it's free . It will use the Web Platform installer to install and you can use it...