November 2011 - Posts
This is the sixth in a series of blog posts I'm doing on ASP.NET 4.5. The next release of .NET and Visual Studio include a ton of great new features and capabilities. With ASP.NET 4.5 you'll see a bunch of really nice improvements with both Web Forms and MVC - as well as in the core ASP.NET base foundation that both are built upon. Today’s post covers some of the work we are doing to add built-in support for bundling and minification into ASP.NET - which makes it easy to improve the performance of applications. This feature can be used by all ASP.NET applications, including both ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web Forms solutions. Basics of Bundling and Minification As more and more people use mobile devices to surf the web, it is...
This week, we added a new way to get a management certificate set up to interact with the Windows Azure Service Management API. There’s a new page in the Windows Azure portal ( https://windows.azure.com/download/publishprofile.aspx ). Browsing there does two things: It generates a management certificate and adds it to all the subscriptions you have. It offers you a download of a .publishsettings file, which contains that certificate and the list of subscription IDs. With the new November release of the Windows Azure tools for Visual Studio, you can simply import this file and then start publishing to Windows Azure. You can also use this file from your own code, since it contains the subscription ID(s) and management certificate you need to have...
The Devoxx conference is running this week in Belgium. Be sure to check out the Windows Azure booth there. I didn’t make it to the conference, but I volunteered to build a demo application for the booth that would show attendees a real example of running Java in Windows Azure. As I was brainstorming what to do, I browsed through the Devoxx schedule. I noticed that there are a few mobile clients for browsing the schedule. This observation quickly lead me to the schedule API . I decided it would be fun to build my own schedule browser in Windows Azure, but I didn’t know where to start. (I’m quite out of date with what’s happening in the Java world.) Reading the Devoxx schedule, I spotted a talk about the Play framework (which has an option for...
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