Jon talks ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET 4.5, ASP.NET Web Pages 2, and Visual Studio 11 on Jesse Liberty's "Yet Another Podcast"
Jesse Liberty interviewed me about all the new Developer Preview releases for web developers. He asked me a lot of great questions over the course of a 45 minute interview.
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Yet Another Podcast #49–Jon Galloway: What’s New In ASP.NET
Here's a rough transcript:
- How can I find out what's been released and get more information?
- Jon talks about the http://asp.net/vnext page which has links to everything you'd want to know about the new releases
- What is a Developer Preview?
- What's the difference between ASP.NET, ASP.NET Web Forms, ASP.NET MVC, and ASP.NET Web Pages?
- What's the difference between ASP.NET Web Pages and WebMatrix?
- What are the highlights in ASP.NET core?
- Asynchronous support
- Advanced Validation features
- AntiXSS support (we talk about why you'd want to use it)
- WebSockets
- Bundling and Minification support
- What's new in ASP.NET Web Forms?
- Strongly Typed Data Controls
- Model Binding
- How does it help to have ASP.NET Web Forms pick up some features from ASP.NET MVC?
- What's new in ASP.NET MVC 4?
- Default project template - new look, adaptive rendering
- Display modes
- Mobile template using jQuery Mobile
- Is it possibly easier to get started with ASP.NET MVC by first learning ASP.NET Web Pages?
- Is it time to learn ASP.NET MVC 4 if you haven't yet?
- What's new in Visual Studio 11 for Web Developers?
- Where does HTML5 fit into these new releases?
- What's WCF Web API, and how does it relate to all these new releases?
- Link: WCF Webb API Preview 5 Is Now Available
- Jesse's just written a blog post recommending a WCF Data Data Service - is that still valid, or should he be recommending WCF Web API? How do you pick which one to use?
- What's new in ASP.NET Web Pages 2?
- Link: The Top 7 New Features in Web Pages 2 Developer Preview
- Resource Manager
- Login support using OAuth and OpenID
- Maps Helper to insert maps using Bing, Google Maps, etc.
- How did this all this content get put together?
- Jon and Jesse talk about HTML support that was just included in Blend.
- Jon talks about NuGet updates and the ASP.NET MVC 4 Recipes feature.
- Jon circles back to where all the information is at:
- Jesse asks Jon about Professional ASP.NET MVC 3