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ASP.NET Security Update Shipping Thursday, Dec 29th
A few minutes ago Microsoft released an advance notification security bulletin announcing that we are releasing an out-of-band security update to address an ASP.NET Security Vulnerability.
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Learn Windows Azure Next Tuesday (Dec 13th)
As some of you might know, I’ve spent much of my time the last 6 months working on Windows Azure – which is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform (I also continue to work on ASP.NET, .NET, VS and a bunch of other products).
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New CSS Editor Improvements in Visual Studio (ASP.NET 4.5 Series)
This is the seventh in a series of blog posts I'm doing on ASP.NET 4.5.
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New Bundling and Minification Support (ASP.NET 4.5 Series)
This is the sixth in a series of blog posts I'm doing on ASP.NET 4.5.
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Web Forms Model Binding Part 3: Updating and Validation (ASP.NET 4.5 Series)
This is the fifth in a series of blog posts I'm doing on ASP.NET 4.5.
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Web Forms Model Binding Part 2: Filtering Data (ASP.NET vNext Series)
This is the fourth in a series of blog posts I'm doing on ASP.NET vNext.
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Web Forms Model Binding Part 1: Selecting Data (ASP.NET vNext Series)
This is the third in a series of blog posts I'm doing on ASP.NET vNext.
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Strongly Typed Data Controls (ASP.NET vNext Series)
This is the second in a series of blog posts I'm doing on ASP.NET vNext.
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HTML Editor Smart Tasks and Event Handler Generation (ASP.NET vNext Series)
This is the first in a series of blog posts I'm doing on ASP.NET vNext.
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ASP.NET 4.5 Series
Over the next few months I’m going to be doing a series of posts that talk about some of the cool new features coming with the next releases of ASP.NET and Visual Studio (which we will start talking about more in the months ahead). They contain a ton of new functionality and improvements – for both Web Forms and MVC - that I think you’ll really like, and which make building applications easier, faster and better.
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Let’s get this blog started again…
A few people have sent me email over the summer about my blog: “hey – does your blog still work?”, “did it move somewhere else?”, “did you die?”. To provide a few quick answers: my blog does still work, it didn’t move anywhere, and I am not dead. :-)
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June 26th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, .NET and NuGet
Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my Best of 2010 Summary for links to 100+ other posts I’ve done in the last year.
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Free “Guathon” all day event in London on June 6th
The (awesome) UK developer community is holding another all day event with Steve Sanderson and me in London on June 6th.
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Upcoming Conference talks in Norway, Germany and the UK
Next month I’ll be in Europe giving presentations at some great .NET conferences. Below are details on the three conferences I’m presenting at:
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Great Free Video Training on ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC
We’ve recently published some great end-to-end ASP.NET video training courses on the http://asp.net web-site.
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ASP.NET MVC 3 and the @helper syntax within Razor
ASP.NET MVC 3 supports a new view-engine option called “Razor” (in addition to continuing to support/enhance the existing .aspx view engine). Razor minimizes the number of characters and keystrokes required when writing a view template, and enables a fast, fluid coding workflow.
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HTML5 Improvements with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update
Last week I blogged about the new ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update, and then followed it up with a detailed post that covered using the EF Code First and the new Data Scaffolding features in it.
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EF Code First and Data Scaffolding with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update
Earlier this week I blogged about the new ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update that we shipped last month.
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ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update
Three weeks ago we held our MIX 2011 conference in Las Vegas. MIX is one of my favorite events of the year, and the conference always has a ton of great content and announcements. All of the keynotes and breakout sessions from the event can be watched online for free here. I’ll be doing a few posts in the upcoming weeks that also cover some highlights from it.
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Hacking Education: A Contest for Developers and Data Crunchers
The folks over at DonorsChoose.org are running an "open data" context in April that I thought you all might be interested in! DonorsChoose is an online charity that makes it easy for anyone to help students in need. The difference is that the Donor can target a project directly...you can choose where your $1 goes.
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My Annual Arizona .NET Speaking Event this Friday
This Friday, April 22nd, I’ll be holding my 8th Annual “Day of .NET” event in Arizona. Organized by my friend Scott Cate, this all-day event is free and contains a ton of great content and presentations on recent technologies in the .NET world. It is hosted in a great facility and is a lot of fun.
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RC of Entity Framework 4.1 (which includes EF Code First)
Last week the data team shipped the Release Candidate of Entity Framework 4.1. You can learn more about it and download it here.
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Visual Studio 2010 SP1
Last week we shipped Service Pack 1 of Visual Studio 2010 and the Visual Studio Express Tools.
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Free Video Training: ASP.NET MVC 3 Features
A few weeks ago I blogged about a great ASP.NET MVC 3 video training course from Pluralsight that was made available for free for 48 hours for people to watch. The feedback from the people that had a chance to watch it was really fantastic. We also received feedback from people who really wanted to watch it – but unfortunately weren’t able to within the 48 hour window.
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DevConnections Conference
The excellent DevConnections conference will be held in Florida later this month (March 27th to 30th). DevConnections features multiple concurrent tracks – including ASP.NET Connections, Silverlight Connections, Visual Studio Connections, SQL Server Connections, and SharePoint Connections.
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March 6th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, EF, .NET
Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my Best of 2010 Summary for links to 100+ other posts I’ve done in the last year.
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36 Hour Free Offer: jQuery Fundamentals Training
Pluralsight (a great .NET training company) is offering the opportunity to watch their jQuery Fundamentals course for free for the next 36 hours.
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ASP.NET mvcConf Videos Available
Earlier this month the ASP.NET MVC developer community held the 2nd annual mvcConf event. This was a free, online conference focused on ASP.NET MVC – with more than 27 talks that covered a wide variety of ASP.NET MVC topics. Almost all of the talks were presented by developers within the community, and the quality and topic diversity of the talks was fantastic.
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NuGet 1.1 Released
This past weekend the ASP.NET team released NuGet 1.1. Phil Haack recently blogged a bunch of details on the enhancements it brings, as well as how to update to it if you already have NuGet 1.0 installed. It is definitely a nice update (my favorite improvement is that it no longer blocks the UI when downloading packages).
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Special 48-Hour Offer: Free ASP.NET MVC 3 Video Training
The Virtual ASP.NET MVC Conference (MVCConf) happened earlier today. Several thousand developers attended the event online, and had the opportunity to watch 27 great talks presented by the community.
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Feb 2nd Links: Visual Studio, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, JQuery, Windows Phone
Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my Best of 2010 Summary for links to 100+ other posts I’ve done in the last year.
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“Unplugged” LIDNUG online talk with me Monday
Update: You can download an audio version of the below talk here.
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Microsoft Web Farm Framework 2.0
The IIS team recently published the Microsoft Web Farm Framework 2.0 release to the web. You can learn more about it and download the final V2 release of it here.
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Running an ASP.NET MVC 3 app on a web server that doesn’t have ASP.NET MVC 3 installed
Last week we released several new web products – including ASP.NET MVC 3. We’ve had a bunch of great feedback and a ton of downloads since then.
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Announcing release of ASP.NET MVC 3, IIS Express, SQL CE 4, Web Farm Framework, Orchard, WebMatrix
I’m excited to announce the release today of several products:
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VS 2010 SP1 and SQL CE
Last month we released the Beta of VS 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1). You can learn more about the VS 2010 SP1 Beta from Jason Zander’s two blog posts about it, and from Scott Hanselman’s blog post that covers some of the new capabilities enabled with it. You can download and install the VS 2010 SP1 Beta here.
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VS 2010 SP1 (Beta) and IIS Express
Last month we released the VS 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Beta. You can learn more about the VS 2010 SP1 Beta from Jason Zander’s two blog posts about it, and from Scott Hanselman’s blog post that covers some of the new capabilities enabled with it.
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Links to my “Best of 2010” Posts
I hope everyone is having a Happy New Years!