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Here are some blog posts about ASP.NET WebAPI that we just released. ASP.NET Web API Released and a Preview of What’s Next Introducing the ASP.NET Web API Help Page (Preview) [Video] OData support in ASP.NET Web API   Here are some ASP.NET Data access blog posts intended for newcomers to ASP.NET . The purpose is basic guidance for making data access choices for ASP.NET application development.  The two SQL Server docs may also be useful to people who have been using ASP.NET but aren’t familiar with LocalDB and SSDT. ASP.NET Data Access Content Map Choosing Data Access Options for ASP.NET Web Forms Applications Choosing a SQL Server Edition for ASP.NET Web Application Development SQL Server Connection Strings for ASP.NET Web Applications...

Visual Studio 2012 is now released to the web. Please visit Jason Zander’s Blog for detailed announcement. This page lists what’s new in ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio for Web . We are updating the Visual Studio 2010 publish experience as well to align with the features available in Visual Studio 2012 RTW. The bits are inside Windows Azure SDK for .NET which can be downloaded in https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/ . Also, we are releasing the following at the same time: ASP.NET MVC 4 for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Visual Web Developer 2010 SP1 ASP.NET Web API OData preview on NuGet ASP.NET Web API Help Page preview on NuGet ASP.NET Web API Tracing preview on NuGet Videos about the new features by Scott Hanselman: http...

Visual Studio 2012 RC is now available to download. Please visit Jason Zander's Blog for detailed announcement. We have more web development enhancement and features in RC. We’ll discuss some of them in future blog posts. Here are a few web development enhancements and features in Visual Studio 2012 RC since Beta . Updated Web project templates New project creation performance is greatly enhanced Cleaner markup Cleaned up Empty template (now it’s really empty), added basic template, removed “Single Page Application” for MVC4. Optimization support in Web Forms project template Enabled unit test project templates for all MVC project types. MVC4 RC included Introduced Web API scaffolding that you can do a full ApiController that uses Entity...

We are pleased to announce that the RTW version of Web Deployment Projects for Visual Studio 2010 is now available for download. If you’ve been using Web Deployment Projects in Visual Studio 2008 or 2005, you can upgrade to VS 2010 without hesitation with the availability of Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects RTW (for Visual Studio Professional and higher skus). Installation You can download Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects RTW from the download page (or simply click here to directly download the installer). Features in WDP 2010 RTW The RTW version of Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects preserves all the core functionalities of Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Projects and Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Projects...

Visual Web Developer 2010 Express offers a great set of features for deploying web applications seamlessly. One of the key features is the ability to publish your web application from VS 2010 to a remote hosted web server along with its dependencies like SQL Server database using “Web One Click Publish”. VS 2010 integrates Microsoft Web Deployment Tool (MsDeploy.exe) to provide a fast, reliable and cohesive way of deploying web applications. Learn more about Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Features . And now that you have been introduced to Web Deployment, you may be looking for a hoster which is compatible with both the new framework (ASP.NET 4.0) and the Web Deployment features included in this release. The following web hosting providers...

Visual Web Developer 2010 Express is available for installation via the Web Platform Installer at http://micorosoft.com/express/web . The English SKU was published on April 12 th , French, German and Japanese went live on April 27 th and Spanish, Italian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Korean will be released soon. Running the Web Platform Installer on an operating system of one of the available languages automatically selects that language of Visual Web Developer 2010 Express (VWD) to be installed. You can select a different language by using the Options link at the lower-left corner of the main WebPI window. In the “Change Options” dialog, select the language you’d like to have installed. If it’s available, you’ll see...

If you’ve been using Web Deployment Projects in Visual Studio 2008 or 2005, you can upgrade to VS 2010 without hesitation now with the availability of Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects Beta. The power tool named “Web Deployment Projects” originally shipped as an out-of-band update for both Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 . This power tool provided a simplistic way to replace config sections and to integrate the ASP.NET pre-compiler and merge utilities into Visual Studio’s build process. Although Visual Studio 2010 includes a powerful new packaging and deployment technology based on MSDeploy, it is not backward compatible with the previous releases of Web Deployment Projects. To address this incompatibility we’ve ported the original Web...

Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express is a free and robust development environment for building, testing and deploying Web applications across the Microsoft Web Platform including ASP.Net, Internet Information Services and SQL Server. Unleash your creativity with powerful design surfaces for building standards-based Web applications and services. With Visual Web Developer 2010 Express, you can work with Web Standards, JavaScript and ASP.NET. Work within a personalized environment, targeting established and emerging web technologies, including rich internet applications based on AJAX or Silverlight, cloud and web services. Integrated debugging tools let you find and fix bugs quickly and easily to help ensure high quality solutions. Visual...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional will launch on April 12 but you can beat the rush and secure your copy today by pre-ordering at the affordable estimated retail price of $549, a saving of $250. If you use a previous version of Visual Studio or any other development tool then you are eligible for this upgrade. Along with all the great new features in Visual Studio 2010 (see www.microsoft.com/visualstudio ) Visual Studio 2010 Professional includes a 12-month MSDN Essentials subscription which gives you access to core Microsoft platforms: Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter. So visit http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/pre-order-visual-studio-2010 to check out all the...

I’m excited to announce – WebsiteSpark – a new program from Microsoft that provides software and support for building web sites, at no cost for 3 years. What You Get Software: WebsiteSpark provides software licenses that you can use for 3 years at no upfront cost (there is only an exit fee of $100 payable upon exit from the program).  Once enrolled, you can download and use the following software from Microsoft: 3 licenses of Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition 1 license of Expression Studio 3 (which includes Blend, Sketchflow, and Web) 2 licenses of Expression Web 3 4 processor licenses of Windows Web Server 2008 4 processor licenses of SQL Server 2008 Web Edition DotNetPanel control panel (enabling easy remote/hosted management of...