Jon Galloway

NuGet supports multiple feeds, running against either a server or a simple folder / fileshare. See Phil Haack's post explaining both options for more information. I'm a big believer in running your own local NuGet feed for a lot of reasons - offline access, control over updates, and as an absolute must-have for demonstrations and training. I previously wrote up a NuGet Powershell script which pages through the NuGet OData feed and downloads local copies of the packages. It's a little more complex than you'd guess, since the script needs to follow redirections and page links, plus I added in some options to skip downloads for features you've got, only grab the most popular X packages, etc.

UPDATED 3/14/2011 with Web Platform Installer links

Entity Framework Code First is a lightweight way to "turn on" data access for a simple CLR class. As the name implies, the intended use is that you're writing the code first and thinking about the database later.

One of the obstacles ASP.NET developers faced in using the Internet Explorer 9 Beta was the dreaded “Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage” error when running an ASP.NET application in Visual Studio.

I tweaked my NuGet downloader PowerShell script to handle the Channel 9 media feeds, so you can grab a local copy of all session videos in the format of your choice:

Thanks for making mvcConf 2 a much bigger success than we'd ever anticipated! mvcConf grew out of the C4MVC meetings, with the first mvcConf event in July 2010. Following that event, we talked about what went well and what we'd like to do for the next event, and we all agreed that we wanted to go for it and see how big we could expand. Here's how the progression went: