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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.