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One ASP.NET Sneak Peek: Elegant Web Forms and Snowballs in Hell

Scott Hanselman - ASP.NET — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:17:39 GMT

For the most part, I'm an ASP.NET developer. I don't need to specify MVC or Web Forms, because it's all One ASP.NET its core. My apps are often hybrids and include not just Web Forms or MVC but also SignalR and Web API. Web Forms often gets picked on because of large View State, weird markup or maybe folks don't like the controls model. However, Web Forms has its place and it's getting even better with .NET 4.5. Here's a little sneak peek of some cool ideas Damian Edwards and the team have been working on for the next version of ASP.NET . As a place to start, remember that ASP.NET routing started in MVC and moved into core ASP.NET. Routing is useful in all ASP.NET applications - MVC, Web Pages and Web Forms. Model Binding...(read more)

KB2650605 QFE : VS2010 sp1 VB web form editor may not become editable during debugging

Web Development Tools @ Microsoft — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:45:00 GMT

We recently released a VS2010 sp1 QFE KB2650605 to solve a VB editor debugging problem. During VB web form debugging, VB web form may become un-editable if there are server tags inside. If you develop and debug VB web forms, you might be interested to download this QFE. http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=40811 Best regards, Xinyang Qiu Web Platforms and Tools Team Read More......(read more)

About Orchard Governance and Microsoft

Tales from the Evil Empire : ASP.NET — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:29:03 GMT

Back in September, we did something with Orchard that is kind of a big deal: we transferred control over the Orchard project to the community. Most Open Source projects that were initiated by corporations such as Microsoft are nowadays still governed by that corporation. They may have an open license, they may take patches and contributions, they may have given the copyright to some non-profit foundation, but for all practical purposes, it’s still that corporation that controls the project and makes the big decisions. That wasn’t what we wanted for Orchard. We wanted to trust the community completely to do what’s best for the project. This is why we organized elections for our new Steering Committee and had five members elected. Anyone who had...(read more)

TechDays in Belgium and Netherlands

ScottGu's Blog — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:30:47 GMT

I’ll be presenting at the upcoming Belgium and Dutch TechDays next month. I’ll be doing three tech talks at each of the events: Overview of Windows Azure A look at ASP.NET MVC 4 ScottGu Unplugged I’m particularly excited about the “A look at ASP.NET MVC 4” talk as it will be the first time I’ve presented on it (and it is shaping up to a really great release – more blog posts on that soon). For more details on how to attend the event visit the Belgium Techdays and Dutch Techdays websites. Hope to see some of you at the conferences! Scott P.S. In addition to blogging, I use Twitter to-do quick posts and share links. My Twitter handle is: @scottgu Read More......(read more)

Now, more than ever, you need a designer

Pete Brown's Blog (POKE 53280,0) for tag ASP.NET — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:52:53 GMT

Before joining Microsoft, I was a consultant, primarily building desktop applications using a variety of MS technologies. During my last couple years there, Silverlight was a large part of that both for full apps and as parts of larger web sites. Prior to that, it was WPF, Windows Forms, VB, HTML and even SharePoint. tl;dr: The point of this long post is not to show you examples of good design or pick apart existing designs. I'm not really qualified to do that. However, I can point out the need for design and give you some small amount of ammunition when presenting this to your own management. Visual and UX Design matters, even for internal apps, often far more than architecture or the other things we focus on. You'll be more efficient...(read more)

Getting Started with Windows Azure

ScottGu's Blog — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:24:32 GMT

This is the second in a series of posts I’m doing on Windows Azure – which is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform. In today’s post I’m going to cover how to sign-up and get started with Windows Azure using a no-obligation 3 month free trial offer. This free trial costs nothing and doesn’t obligate you to buy anything at the end of it. It provides an easy way to try out and get started with Windows Azure. Windows Azure Website The http://www.windowsazure.com web-site provides everything you need to get started with Windows Azure – including overview content, developer tutorials and documentation, account management, and more: On the www.windowsazure.com home page, as well as in the top-right hand corner of every page of the site...(read more)

Diving Deep: ASP.NET Membership and the new Universal Providers

ASP.NET — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:53:47 GMT

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“Unplugged” LIDNUG online talk with me on Monday (Jan 16th)

ScottGu's Blog — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:08:00 GMT

This coming Monday (Jan 16th) I’m doing another online LIDNUG session . The talk will be from 10am to 11:30am (Pacific Time). I do these talks a few times a year and they tend to be pretty fun. Attendees can ask any questions they want to me, and listen to me answer them live via LiveMeeting. We usually end up having some really good discussions on a wide variety of topics. Any topic is fair game: technical, strategy, community, college basketball, etc. You can learn more and register to attend the online event for free here . I’ll update this post with a download link to a recorded audio version of the talk after the event is over. Hope to get a chance to chat with some of you there! Scott P.S. In addition to blogging...(read more)

ASP.NET Security Update Shipping Thursday, Dec 29th

ScottGu's Blog — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:59:54 GMT

A few minutes ago Microsoft released an advance notification security bulletin announcing that we are releasing an out-of-band security update to address an ASP.NET Security Vulnerability . The security update we are releasing resolves a publicly disclosed Denial of Service issue present in all versions of ASP.NET. We’re currently unaware of any attacks on ASP.NET customers using this exploit, but we strongly encourage customers to deploy the update as soon as possible. We are releasing the security update via Windows Update and the Windows Server Update Service. You can also manually download and install it via the Microsoft Download Center. We will release the update on Thursday, December 29th at approximately 10am...(read more)

"What is WebMatrix?" in conversation with Sarvashrestha Paliwal on Web Technologies

ASP.NET — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:33:04 GMT

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Slides and Code from my VSLive Silverlight 5, REST, WCF Web API, MVC talk

Pete Brown's Blog (POKE 53280,0) for tag ASP.NET — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:13:05 GMT

This talk was an adaptation of two chapters from Silverlight 5 in Action. I started with a brief explanation of REST, and then explained the solution we were going to build during the session. The idea was to show how you can use REST in place of the heavier Soap approach in many cases, and make your services accessible to far more clients. I also showed how to share model objects between various implementations of .NET, using linked files and conditional compilation. Without watching the session or reading the chapters, the source and slides are only somewhat useful as you miss the interim steps. So, if you happen to be at an event where I deliver this again (I've submitted it to several upcoming 2012 events), great. If not… buy my Silverlight...(read more)

EFProviders require MultipleActiveResultSets=True for System.Data.SqlClient connection strings

ASP.NET — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:55:03 GMT

I was playing with the new Membership API (System.Web.Providers) for the upcoming Virtual TechDays While I was trying out a lot of options for using as DB store, one of the obvious choices was SQL Azure. With SQL Azure, I could offload the Database hosting capabilities to Azure and just focus on my application code. Of course, it comes at a cost and SQL Azure is a subscription based database available in different sizes and rates there of. One of the challenges I faced was, working with the Membership API’s connectionstring called as “DefaultConnection”. The Default Connection is something you would use simply for all connection strings once you upgrade the application to use the New Membership API. While configuring the connection string, I...(read more)

Learn Windows Azure Next Tuesday (Dec 13th)

ScottGu's Blog — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:29:39 GMT

As some of you might know, I’ve spent much of my time the last 6 months working on Windows Azure – which is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform (I also continue to work on ASP.NET, .NET, VS and a bunch of other products). Next Tuesday, Dec 13th we’ll be holding a special Learn Windows Azure training event for developers. It will provide a great way to learn Windows Azure and what it provides. You can attend the event either by watching it streamed LIVE online, or by attending in person (on the Microsoft Redmond Campus). Both options are completely free. Learn Window Azure Event During the Learn Windows Azure event attendees will learn how to start building great cloud based applications using Windows Azure. I’ll be kicking...(read more)

What’s the deal with Orchard and NuGet? Does Orchard suck?

Tales from the Evil Empire : ASP.NET — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:34:02 GMT

Damn, Rob saw right through the PR lies of Phil Haack about the new NuGet gallery and figured it all out. Kidding, kidding. For your enjoyment and context, here is Rob’s post: http://wekeroad.com/2011/12/06/nuget-and-orchard/ Phil made a thoughtful answer to the post where he gives the rationale behind the decision: http://wekeroad.com/2011/12/06/nuget-and-orchard/#comment-380571113 What I want to address here is what that means (or not) about Orchard. “Why wasn’t it fast before?” Because by default, back when the NuGet gallery was first built, Orchard was grossly under optimized. We made a lot of progress, but it still is under optimized out of the box --in a number of ways-- which is why we’re having this discussion for the 1.4 release: http...(read more)

New NuGet.org Deployed!

you've been HAACKED — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:22:17 GMT

So my last day at Microsoft ended up being a very long one as the NuGet team worked late into the evening to deployan updated version of NuGet.org. I’m very happy to be a part of this as my last act as a Microsoft employee. This is complete re-write of the gallery. Why a rewrite? We’ve learned a lot since we first launched, and our needs have evolved to the point where a rewrite made sense. The new implementation is a vanilla ASP.NET MVC 3 application and highly optimized to be a gallery with just the features we need. For example, we made extensive use of Mvc Mini Profiler to ensure pages made the least number of database queries as necessary. Also, the site is now hosted in Azure! What’s in this new implementation? There’s a lot of great improvements...(read more)