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Using HTML5 Web Storage in ASP.NET

Bipin Joshi — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:22:14 GMT

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.

Bundling and Minification in ASP.NET 4.5

Abhijit Jana — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:22:14 GMT

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

How to Use FlyComet in a ASP.NET MVC3 Project

Muthukumar.V — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:22:14 GMT

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

ASP.NET - Build a Google Plus Custom Search Engine

Peter A Bromberg — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:22:14 GMT

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.

Creating Custom Project Template for Visual Studio with Pre-Installed NuGet Packages

Kedar Kulkarni — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:22:14 GMT

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.

KB2650605 QFE : VS2010 sp1 VB web form editor may not become editable during debugging

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:45:00 GMT

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)

One ASP.NET Sneak Peek: Elegant Web Forms and Snowballs in Hell

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:17:39 GMT

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)

Micro Caching in ASP.NET

Keith — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:22:14 GMT

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

Free Hands-On Lab on Orchard CMS

Kris van der Mast — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:22:14 GMT

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.

About Orchard Governance and Microsoft

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:29:03 GMT

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)