HTML5 Web Storage provides a streamlined data storage mechanism that allows developers to store data on the client as key-value pairs. This article explores what Web Storage is, its flavors and illustrates how Web Storage data can be transferred between client and server in ASP.NET websites.

This article gives an in-depth look at Bundling and Minification features introduced in the ASP.NET 4.5 developer preview.

Explains how to use the COMET project in ASP.NET MVC 3 for sending push updates and receiving live updates using IHttpAsyncHandler.

The default search box on Google+ only finds people. Fortunately, thanks the Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) offering, it's a snap to build your own. We look at two different ways to implement it - one in a single, "self-contained" ASP.NET page, and the other with a page that has the search form but redirects to a second page.

In this follow up article of "Creating custom project template with wizard for Visual Studio" Kedar Kulkarni explains how to create a custom project template in Visual Studio with pre-installed NuGet packages.

We recently released a VS2010 sp1 QFE KB2650605 to solve a VB editor debugging problem. During VB web form debugging, VB web form may become un-editable if there are server tags inside. If you develop and debug VB web forms, you might be interested to download this QFE. http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=40811 Best regards, Xinyang Qiu Web Platforms and Tools Team Read More......(read more)

For the most part, I'm an ASP.NET developer. I don't need to specify MVC or Web Forms, because it's all One ASP.NET its core. My apps are often hybrids and include not just Web Forms or MVC but also SignalR and Web API. Web Forms often gets picked on because of large View State, weird markup or maybe folks don't like the controls model. However, Web Forms has its place and it's getting even better with .NET 4.5. Here's a little sneak peek of some cool ideas Damian Edwards and the team have been working on for the next version of ASP.NET . As a place to start, remember that ASP.NET routing started in MVC and moved into core ASP.NET. Routing is useful in all ASP.NET applications - MVC, Web Pages and Web Forms. Model Binding...(read more)

This article looks at an efficient micro caching solution for ASP.NET for managing high volume traffic where there is heavy database access.

Microsoft MVP Kris van der Mast shares a dedicated hands-on lab on how to get started with Orchard CMS, an ASP.NET MVC 3-based CMS system.

Back in September, we did something with Orchard that is kind of a big deal: we transferred control over the Orchard project to the community. Most Open Source projects that were initiated by corporations such as Microsoft are nowadays still governed by that corporation. They may have an open license, they may take patches and contributions, they may have given the copyright to some non-profit foundation, but for all practical purposes, it’s still that corporation that controls the project and makes the big decisions. That wasn’t what we wanted for Orchard. We wanted to trust the community completely to do what’s best for the project. This is why we organized elections for our new Steering Committee and had five members elected. Anyone who had...(read more)

I’ll be presenting at the upcoming Belgium and Dutch TechDays next month.  I’ll be doing three tech talks at each of the events: Overview of Windows Azure A look at ASP.NET MVC 4 ScottGu Unplugged I’m particularly excited about the “A look at ASP.NET MVC 4” talk as it will be the first time I’ve presented on it (and it is shaping up to a really great release – more blog posts on that soon). For more details on how to attend the event visit the Belgium Techdays and Dutch Techdays websites.  Hope to see some of you at the conferences! Scott P.S. In addition to blogging, I use Twitter to-do quick posts and share links. My Twitter handle is: @scottgu Read More......(read more)

In this short article, Kedar Kulkarni demonstrates how to take advantage of the improved file upload control in HTML 5.

The PageMethod is a static method in an ASPX page codebehind that is decorated with the WebMethod attribute. This can be called from external client code via the url "PageName.aspx/MethodName". Using jQuery's $ajax function is probably the easiest way to make these calls,although they can also be called via Microsoft AJAX and by other means. Here we provide three examples of PageMethods, of increasing complexity, and show how to set up each PageMethod, as well as how to consume and display

This article explains how to validate data passed in MVC URL’s.

In this article, Sheo Narayan shows how to retrieve saved images from a SQL Server database and show them on an ASP.NET page.