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On June 6th, I announced  RC version of WebMatrix 2.   I highly encourage you to read the post Announcing WebMatrix 2 RC as it covers most of the new features that we are releasing. I also encourage you to read ScottGu’s blog post which also calls out the key new highlights of  WebMatrix 2 RTW and visit www.webmatrix.com which has tons of user documentation. Since the June RC release we primarily focused on getting polish on the product and as part of this post I am hoping to highlight the key changes since WebMatrix 2 RC.  This post is not intended to be flashy but hopefully will give you an understanding of the effort that the team took in taking WebMatrix 2 from RC to RTM. In last few weeks we have worked to make...

Yesterday you met open, unified, powerful yet simplified Windows Azure . You can read more about it on Windows Azure Blog or on ScottGu’s blog In the same spirit and as a great compliment to Windows Azure Web Sites, today I am super excited to announce the Release Candidate of our free web development tool WebMatrix. Background WebMatrix is designed to build modern standards based websites as effortlessly as possible. It aims to make your web development workflow easy i.e. · It lets you get started with Open Source web applications or with built in pretty templates like bakery, personal site, photo galleries, Chat application, Simple CMS etc. · It comes bundled with a web server so you do not have to configure anything on your machine. · It...

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...

There are quite a few image gallery modules for Orchard but they were not invented here I wanted something a lot less sophisticated that would be as barebones and minimalist as possible out of the box, to make customization extremely easy. So I made this, in less than two days (during which I got distracted a lot). Nwazet.ZenGallery uses existing Orchard features as much as it can: Galleries are just a content part that can be added to any type The set of photos in a gallery is simply defined by a folder in Media Managing the images in a gallery is done using the standard media management from Orchard Ordering of photos is simply alphabetical order of the filenames (use 1_, 2_, etc. prefixes if you have to) The path to the gallery folder is...

In the last post in this series [ read here ] I added the clock timing logic to the HTML workout timer. The next feature to add is round and interval audio. I want to ring a bell at the beginning and the end of each round, a warning before a change in work state, [...] Read More...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Microsoft has an amazing intern program . For a summer, these bright college students work with a feature crew getting real work done, all the while attending cool events nearly every week that, frankly, make the rest of us jealous! Just look at some of the perks listed in this news article! This summer, the ASP.NET MVC is hosting an intern, Stephen Halter, who while very smart, doesn’t have a blog of his own (booo! hiss!). Being the nice guy that I am (and also being amenable to bribes), I’m letting him guest author a post on my blog (first guest post ever!) to talk about the cool project he’s been doing. Hello everyone – my name is Stephen Halter, and I am a summer intern on the ASP.NET MVC team who is excited to show you the...

As I’ve been swimming in the great jQuery lake I discovered the jQuery QuickSearch Plugin, As WebForms developers we often display lots of data using a gridview control. I though it would be neet to set up using the jQuery QuickSearch plugin with the Gridview. Here’s how it works. Ihave a GridView wired to some [...] Read More...

The ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit contains a control extender for making a set of ASP.NET CheckBoxes mutually exclusive [ See HERE ]. In this post I’ll demonstrate implementing Mutually Exclusive CheckBoxes with jQuery. ASP.NET Checkboxes are, of course, server-side controls. If you’ve been following along with this series, or you using ASP.NET WebMatrix or MVC instead of [...] Read More...

The Ajax Control Toolkit includes a control extender [ The Paging Bulleted List Control Extender ] that lets you create a list that the user can filter by clicking on an index indicator. This can be very useful, especially when your list is very large. The jQuery ListNav Plug-In lets you do this with any unordered [...] Read More...

I recently received this email from an MSJoe blog reader. Hi Joe, thanks for the posts about jquery..   I’m now wondering, we are using the ms ajax toolkit. I like the simple use of it. Now doing jquery you will have to write javascript, which will have the advantage that all cpu cycles are [...] Read More...