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Does ASP.NET Web API + OData filter at the database level? Let's ask IntelliTrace.
Someone asked me via Twitter if ASP.NET Web API queries are filtered at the database level, or if ASP.NET Web API queries the entire result set and then filters in code. Good question. I was pretty sure I knew the answer (below) but since everything in ASP.NET Web API changes so fast and they just released some big OData support updates, I wanted to make sure before answering.
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Announcing a Web Camps Winter World Tour starting December 2012
We have a great lineup of international Web Camps events scheduled for the next month. Come join us! Space for these events really is limited, so if you want to get in on them you need to sign up fast.
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Ten - oh, wait, eleven - Eleven things you should know about the ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update
Today, just a little over two months after the big ASP.NET 4.5 / ASP.NET MVC 4 / ASP.NET Web API / Visual Studio 2012 / Web Matrix 2 release, the first preview of the ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update is out. Here's what you need to know:
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Professional ASP.NET MVC 4 is out!
Look what showed up yesterday!
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Guest (and occasional co-host) on Jesse Liberty's Yet Another Podcast
I was a recent guest on Jesse Liberty's Yet Another Podcast talking about the latest Visual Studio, ASP.NET and Azure releases.
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SimpleMembership, Membership Providers, Universal Providers and the new ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC 4 templates
The ASP.NET MVC 4 Internet template adds some new, very useful features which are built on top of SimpleMembership. These changes add some great features, like a much simpler and extensible membership API and support for OAuth. However, the new account management features require SimpleMembership and won't work against existing ASP.NET Membership Providers. I'll start with a summary of top things you need to know, then dig into a lot more detail.
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Adding an Admin user to an ASP.NET MVC 4 application using a single drop-in file
I'm working on an ASP.NET MVC 4 tutorial and wanted to set it up so just dropping a file in App_Start would create a user named "Owner" and assign them to the "Administrator" role (more explanation at the end if you're interested).
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Guest on Cloud Cover Show: What's new in Visual Studio 2012, ASP.NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 and Windows Azure Web Sites
I was the guest star on the Cloud Cover Show this past week talking about what's new for web developers in Visual Studio 2012, ASP.NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, and Windows Azure Web Sites. As a remote presenter (I recorded my screencast while at ThatConference in Wisconsin Dells), I was given the floating head treatment when first introduced:
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ASP.NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web Pages 2, and Visual Studio 2012 for web developers: Part 1
Wow, yesterday was a big day for ASP.NET developers! In addition to some other very cool things, Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2012, ASP.NET 4.5, ASP MVC 4 were released to manufacturing. Hooray! So what now?
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Zenbook UX31 as a Windows 8 laptop
I've written two previous reviews of a Zenbook UX31 Ultrabook. Short summary: I really like the form factor, build quality performance, and battery life. Here's a final review with a look at Zenbook as a longterm Windows 8 laptop.
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aspConf - The Free, Online ASP.NET Conference - July 17-18
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"Learning To Love HTML and CSS (for grumpy developers)" Presentation From NDC 2012
This year at NDC 2012 I gave a presentation titled Learning to love HTML and CSS (for grumpy developers).
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June Azure Events: Meet Windows Azure (June 7), Learn Windows Azure (June 11), and worldwide DevCamps
I recently blogged about how I've moved to the Windows Azure Technical Evangelist team because I was excited about where the platform is headed. There are two great events coming up that explain why I think Azure is a pretty interesting platform: Meet Windows Azure on June 7th, followed by Learn Windows Azure on June 11th.
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Why I Taught My Daughter To Code (A Little)
Imagine a world in which very few people knew how to read or write. You kept to certain parts of town because you couldn't read a map or a street sign. When you needed to sign a contract, you just asked what it said and had to take it on faith. A lot of your experience was based on legend and rumor. Books, and the information in them, were mystical. Sometimes you suspected they were being used against you, but you never really knew.
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ASP.NET MVC Authentication - Customizing Authentication and Authorization The Right Way
We're continuing the ASP.NET Authentication series (yes, I'm doing a few overlapping series, and yes, it's making me dizzy). The previous post covered Global Authentication and Allow Anonymous. This one continues with a simple tip that can be summed up as follows: keep it simple by extending rather than rewriting.
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Upcoming Web Camps
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Windows 8 and ASP.NET Web API - Part 1 - Getting Started
Many of the key Windows 8 Metro Style application features either require or can greatly benefit from a connection to online services. ASP.NET Web API is a great fit for these services, as it's tightly focused around providing HTTP services to applications. I'm starting a series that will look at how to leverage ASP.NET Web API services from Windows 8 applications.
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ASP.NET MVC Authentication - Global Authentication and Allow Anonymous
As I was recently updating the Wrox Professional ASP.NET book for ASP.NET MVC 4, I thought about some of the common questions, tip, and tricks I've seen over the past few years, and thought it was time for a... quick blog series! Let's start with Global Authentication.
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I've joined the Windows Azure technical evangelist team
I've been at Microsoft for a little over two years now, working in groups that focused primarily on publishing online content for developers. In addition to the obvious things, there's a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes in creating and maintaining content - maintaining and improving existing content, planning content for unreleased platforms and products, handling dozens of spoken languages and several programming languages, etc. It's been a pleasure working with some real professionals. I've also enjoyed working in a small but dynamic group that's focused on the developer community. During that time I had two excellent bosses, Scott Hanselman and Pete Brown. Both really made it fun to show up to work every day. Well, I work from home, but still.
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Thoughts on ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, and ASP.NET Web Pages (Razor) open source announcements
I'm really excited by the big announcements earlier this week:
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ASP.NET Web API - Screencast series Part 6: Authorization
We're concluding a six part series on ASP.NET Web API that accompanies the getting started screencast series. This is an introductory screencast series that walks through from File / New Project to some more advanced scenarios like Custom Validation and Authorization. The screencast videos are all short (3-5 minutes) and the sample code for the series is both available for download and browsable online. I did the screencasts, but the samples were written by the ASP.NET Web API team.
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ASP.NET Web API - Screencast series Part 5: Custom Validation
We're continuing a six part series on ASP.NET Web API that accompanies the getting started screencast series. This is an introductory screencast series that walks through from File / New Project to some more advanced scenarios like Custom Validation and Authorization. The screencast videos are all short (3-5 minutes) and the sample code for the series is both available for download and browsable online. I did the screencasts, but the samples were written by the ASP.NET Web API team.
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ASP.NET Web API - Screencast series Part 4: Paging and Querying
We're continuing a six part series on ASP.NET Web API that accompanies the getting started screencast series. This is an introductory screencast series that walks through from File / New Project to some more advanced scenarios like Custom Validation and Authorization. The screencast videos are all short (3-5 minutes) and the sample code for the series is both available for download and browsable online. I did the screencasts, but the samples were written by the ASP.NET Web API team.
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ASP.NET Web API - Screencast series Part 3: Delete and Update
We're continuing a six part series on ASP.NET Web API that accompanies the getting started screencast series. This is an introductory screencast series that walks through from File / New Project to some more advanced scenarios like Custom Validation and Authorization. The screencast videos are all short (3-5 minutes) and the sample code for the series is both available for download and browsable online. I did the screencasts, but the samples were written by the ASP.NET Web API team.
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ASP.NET Web API - Screencast series Part 2: Getting Data
We're continuing a six part series on ASP.NET Web API that accompanies the getting started screencast series. This is an introductory screencast series that walks through from File / New Project to some more advanced scenarios like Custom Validation and Authorization. The screencast videos are all short (3-5 minutes) and the sample code for the series is both available for download and browsable online. I did the screencasts, but the samples were written by the ASP.NET Web API team.
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ASP.NET Web API - Screencast series with downloadable sample code - Part 1
There's a lot of great ASP.NET Web API content on the ASP.NET website at http://asp.net/web-api. I mentioned my screencast series in original announcement post, but we've since added the sample code so I thought it was worth pointing the series out specifically.
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ZenBook UX31E - Follow up
I previously wrote about some initial impressions of a ZenBook UX31E I've been reviewing. I've been using it heavily since then and wanted to follow up on how it's been working for me.
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Juice UI: Open source ASP.NET Web Forms components for jQuery UI widgets
This morning at MVP Summit, Scott Hunter just announced a new open source project from appendTo called Juice UI. Juice UI is a collection of Web Forms components which make it incredibly easy to leverage jQuery UI widgets in ASP.NET Web Forms applications. You can start using it right away by adding the JuiceUI NuGet package to your app, and you're welcome to go nuts with the source, which is dual licensed under MIT and GPL. -
ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta Released!
Last September at //BUILD/ we announced ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview. Today we're releasing the next release on the road to ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta. This release includes some great new features since the ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview, including the introduction of ASP.NET Web API.
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ASUS Zenbook UX31 - First Look
I've been through several laptops over the years, three in the past two years. I had an old Dell beater as a fallback, but for a while my main laptop was a Dell Latitude XT2. The XT2 seemed promising - a small laptop with a touch screen - but poor drivers and slow performance made it barely usable. It was bad enough trying to do day to day work on it, but when I used it to give technical presentations it was flat out embarrassing. That's why, when I was up for a new work laptop, I jumped at the Lenovo W520. The W520 is an enormous brute of a machine in every sense - literally more powerful than most desktop machines, and not much smaller. That's fine, I thought - I'll happily trade convenience for a machine that actually works.
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10 Things ASP.NET Developers Should Know About Web.config Inheritance and Overrides
The ASP.NET configuration system is build around the idea of inheritance:
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Excerpt Old Posts - A WordPress Plugin to get around the Feedburner 512K Limit
If you've got a WordPress blog and use Feedburner, you may notice that the posts stop updating. It's often due to a limitation on Feedburner that stops updating if your feed exceeds 512K. I wrote a simple plugin called Excerpt Old Posts that fixes that problem by showing Full Text for recent posts and Summary for older posts.