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Using Node.js in an ASP.NET MVC application with iisnode
Node.js is an event-driven I/O server-side JavaScript environment based on the open-source V8 Javascript engine. It's really easy to run it on Windows now, and if you run it under iisnode, it's actually running under a standard IIS Handler, which means you can integrate it directly into ASP.NET applications. -
Taking a look at the HTML5 video use in the Bing video homepage
I've always liked the pictures on the Bing homepage. In late September, they started occasionally replacing the picture with an HTML5 video. The Bing team blogged about it, and included an interesting video from the managing editor for the Bing homepage that talks about how they select photos and why they're going to start adding the occasional video backgrounds.
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ASP.NET website redesign beta: What's changed, why, and how you can make it better
We're happy to announce the beta release of something we've been quietly working on for a while now: a redesign for the ASP.NET website (http://asp.net). You can browse directly to it at http://beta.asp.net, or if you're on the http://asp.net site you can click on the "Try the NEW beta site" link in the header.
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ASP.NET MVC 4 Overview - Part 2: Default template changes and Adaptive Rendering using Viewport and CSS Media Queries
This is Part 2 of a series overviewing changes in ASP.NET MVC 4. In Part 1, we looked at installation and new options in creating a new project. In Part 2, we'll look at changes to the default project template and how it uses adaptive rendering to optimize the display for the end user's browser dimensions.