Archives
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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Update
In October we shipped the public Beta 2 release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4. The feedback on the new features in VS 2010 and .NET 4 has been really great. I’ve been working on a blog series about some of them (lots more posts to go!) and have also had a chance to present them to a broad range of audiences – and it has been great hearing the excitement people have about them.
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Silverlight 4 demos from my PDC Keynote now available
[In addition to blogging, I’m also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu]
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit
[In addition to blogging, I’m also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu]
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My Presentations in Europe (December 2009)
This past week I’ve been traveling around Europe giving a bunch of presentations (approximately 5 hours in each country) – Norway on Tuesday, Sweden on Wednesday, Denmark on Thursday, and Belgium on Friday. I’ll then be presenting at the BizSpark Camp in France this coming Tuesday.
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Microsoft AJAX CDN – Now with SSL Support
Back in September I blogged about the new Microsoft AJAX CDN (Content Delivery Network) service that the ASP.NET team is now providing. The CDN provides edge caching support for AJAX libraries (including jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX). The service is available for free, does not require any registration, and can be used for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. It offers a great way to speed up your external facing web-sites.
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Presenting in Europe Next Week
I’m off to Europe next week to do a bunch of technical presentations. I’m presenting for 5-6 hours in a bunch of different cities, and will be doing talks that cover: ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010, ASP.NET MVC 2, and Silverlight 4.
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LIDNUG: Online chat with me Monday Nov 23rd
This past week was a busy one – with lots of announcements and cool releases happening at this year’s PDC conference. All of the PDC keynotes and breakout sessions are now posted online for anyone to watch for free. You can find sessions to watch here.
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November Conferences
I’m doing keynotes at two big conferences later this month:
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Add Reference Dialog Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
[In addition to blogging, I am now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu (@scottgu is my twitter name)]
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WPF 4 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
[In addition to blogging, I am now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. You can follow me on Twitter at: twitter.com/scottgu (@scottgu is my twitter name)]
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VS 2010 Code Intellisense Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
This is the tenth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.
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Searching and Navigating Code in VS 2010 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
This is the ninth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. In today’s blog post I’m going to cover some of the new code searching and navigation features that are now built-into VS 2010.
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VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta 2
I’m happy to announce that today we shipped the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0. You can download it now.
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Announcing Microsoft Ajax Library (Preview 6) and the Microsoft Ajax Minifier
The ASP.NET team today released a significant new update of the Microsoft Ajax Library (Preview 6). This update includes a bunch of new capabilities and improvements to our client-side AJAX library, and can be used with any version of ASP.NET (including ASP.NET 2.0, 3.5 and 4.0), and can be used in both ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC projects. Today’s release includes the following feature improvements:
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URL Routing with ASP.NET 4 Web Forms (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
[In addition to blogging, I have recently been using Twitter to-do quick posts and share links. You can follow me on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/scottgu (@scottgu is my twitter name)]
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Announcing the WebsiteSpark Program
I’m excited to announce a new program – WebsiteSpark – that Microsoft is launching today.
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Tip/Trick: Increase your VS screen real estate by disabling HTML Navigation Bar
Below is a tip/trick I twittered via my Twitter account earlier today. A number of people seemed interested in – so I thought i'd blog it here too.
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Announcing the Microsoft AJAX CDN
Earlier today the ASP.NET team launched a new Microsoft Ajax CDN (Content Delivery Network) service that provides caching support for AJAX libraries (including jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX). The service is available for free, does not require any registration, and can be used for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.
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Auto-Start ASP.NET Applications (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
This is the seventh in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.
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ASP.NET, HTML, JavaScript Snippet Support (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
This is the sixth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.
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Code Optimized Web Development Profile (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
This is the fifth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.
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Multi-Monitor Support (VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series)
This is the fourth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.
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Multi-Targeting Support (VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series)
This is the third in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.
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Starter Project Templates (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
This is the second in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.
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Clean Web.Config Files (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
This is the first in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.
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VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series
[In addition to blogging, I have been using Twitter more recently to-do quick posts and share links. You can follow me on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/scottgu (@scottgu is my twitter name)]
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LIDNUG: Free Online Virtual Chat with Me Tuesday Morning
A few months ago I did a free online chat hosted by LIDNUG (Linked .NET Users Group) that was a lot of fun (and which people seemed to really like).
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ASP.NET MVC V2 Preview 1 Released
The ASP.NET team just released the first public preview of ASP.NET MVC Version 2. You can download it here.
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Silverlight 3 Released
Today we officially shipped the final release of Silverlight 3.
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ASP.NET MVC Talk in Reading UK July 3rd
I’m in the UK today and tomorrow (on my way back from a trip to India for two days earlier this week), and am giving two tech talks while in town.
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June 7th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio
Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past.
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IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit
SEO (search engine optimization) is one of the important considerations that any Internet web-site needs to design with in mind. A non-trivial percentage of Internet traffic to sites is driven by search engines, and good SEO techniques can help increase site traffic even further.
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Microsoft Web Platform Installer
One of the cool new releases coming out this year is a small download manager - the Microsoft Web Platform Installer - that makes installing and configuring web server and web development stacks really easy. It is a free tool that you can download from the www.microsoft.com/web site (here is the direct link to the installer – choose the 2.0 version). It works with Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
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May 30th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio
Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past.
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LIDNUG: Free Online Virtual Chat with Me Today
LIDNUG (Linked .NET Users Group) is hosting an online chat with me today (Wednesday) from 11:30am to 1pm PST (Pacific Standard Time). Anyone is free to join and the agenda topic will be open – so bring your questions!
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Free ASP.NET MVC “NerdDinner” Tutorial Now in HTML
Last month I blogged about a free end-to-end ASP.NET MVC tutorial called “NerdDinner” that I wrote for the Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 book from Wrox Press. The book is now released and shipping on Amazon.
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NerdDinner: Building the Model
In a model-view-controller framework the term "model" refers to the objects that represent the data of the application, as well as the corresponding domain logic that integrates validation and business rules with it. The model is in many ways the "heart" of an MVC-based application, and as we'll see later fundamentally drives the behavior of it.
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NerdDinner: Creating the Database
We'll be using a database to store all of the Dinner and RSVP data for our NerdDinner application. The steps below show creating the database using the free SQL Server Express edition. All of the code we'll write works with both SQL Server Express and the full SQL Server.
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NerdDinner: File->New Project
This will bring up the "New Project" dialog. To create a new ASP.NET MVC application, we'll select the "Web" node on the left-hand side of the dialog and then choose the "ASP.NET MVC Web Application" project template on the right:
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NerdDinner
The best way to learn a new framework is to build something with it. This tutorial walks through how to build a small, but complete, application using ASP.NET MVC, and introduces some of the core concepts behind it.
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NerdDinner ASP.NET MVC Tutorial
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ASP.NET MVC 1.0
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Two weeks ago at MIX we released ASP.NET MVC 1.0. ASP.NET MVC is a free, fully supported, Microsoft product that enables developers to easily build web applications using a model-view-controller pattern. ASP.NET MVC provides a “closer to the metal” web programming option for ASP.NET. It enables full control over HTML markup and URL structure, and facilitates unit testing and a test driven development workflow. -
MIX 09
Two weeks ago we held our MIX conference in Las Vegas. MIX is my favorite conference of the year – since it nicely integrates development and design topics together in a single event, and is usually accompanied by some pretty cool product announcements.
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Free ASP.NET MVC eBook Tutorial
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There has been a lot of excitement in the community about the new ASP.NET MVC framework that is about to ship (literally any day now – announcement coming soon). As with anything new, people are also asking for more tutorials/samples/documentation that cover how to get started and build applications with it. -
Moonlight 1.0 Release
I am excited to announce that Novell today released version 1.0 of Moonlight, and is making it available for download at no cost with support for most major Linux distro’s (including openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Fedora, Red Hat, and Ubuntu). For those unfamiliar with it, Moonlight is a joint effort between Novell and Microsoft of an open-source implementation of Silverlight for Linux.
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ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available
Today we shipped the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate (RC). Click here to download it (note: the link just went live so if it isn’t working wait a few minutes for the server you are hitting to refresh). It works with both Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 (which is free).
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Silverlight and the 2009 Presidential Inauguration
Tomorrow’s presidential inauguration of Barack Obama will be a truly historic event.
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