Archives
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Two free video courses: Intro to ASP.NET MVC and Responsive UI with Bootstrap
I'm really excited to announce that two of my latest courses on Microsoft Virtual Academy are now live! Both are recordings of live courses Christopher Harrison and I lead in the beautiful Channel 9 studios, and include downloads of all slides, code and live chat logs.
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Web Camp in Los Angeles with Scott Hunter - July 9
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Scripting .NET project migration to Automatic NuGet Package Restore
NuGet Package Restore allows you to reference NuGet packages in your project without shipping them with your source code or committing them to source control. The general idea is that the packages are restored - that is, downloaded and installed - into your project when it is build. This offers a number of benefits, including better interaction with source control and smaller code distributions.
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MVA: Introduction to ASP.NET MVC - Free Live Training - June 23
UPDATE: The course (including videos, slides, and links to the code) are published here: http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/introduction-to-asp-net-mvc
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New Book: Pro Windows 8.1 Development with XAML and C#
Between releases of my other book (Professional ASP.NET MVC, next release due out soon!) Jesse Liberty somehow talked me into collaborating with him on writing a book on Windows 8.1 development. Actually, it wasn't a hard sell, because I've done a good amount of XAML dev, love C#, and Windows 8 / 8.1 development is a lot of fun. We co-wrote the table of contents, I wrote code samples and very rough drafts (sometimes just bullet points), and Jesse turned it into prose. That worked pretty well, but was a little too slow - especially once my work on Professional ASP.NET MVC 5 ramped up. Fortunately, Phil Japiske agreed to join us and finish the book off. Phil really nailed it - he polished off the remaining chapters, reviewed and greatly improved the existing chapters, and made sure everything was up to date for Windows 8.1.
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weblogs.asp.net Now Running On Orchard and Azure Web Sites
I'm incredibly happy to announce that my blog - and all 750 other blogs running under weblogs.asp.net - are now powered by Orchard and Azure Web Sites! That's 750 blogs, all hosted in 4 Azure Web Sites all running on only one large virtual machine.
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A 30 Minute Look At ASP.NET vNext
This week at TechEd, the ASP.NET team announced some pretty exciting updates on the way for ASP.NET.
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Upcoming Web Camps - Summer 2014
Web Camps are free, no fluff, lots of code events where you can get learn what's new in the Microsoft web platform and how you can put it to use right away. They're by developers for developers - no marketing, just building web apps.
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Lessons Learned Preparing and Presenting Tech Training Events
You've agreed to present a full day training event, and the day's approaching. What do you do?
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5 Tricks for catching up on the Channel 9 event videos for Build 2014
Okay, you've had a week to digest all the video content from Build 2014? Done yet? Me, neither. Well, how about some tricks to make this easier?
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Looking at ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 - Part 4 - Web API Help Pages, BSON, and Global Error Handling
This is part 4 of a series covering some of the new features in the ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 releases. The last one! If you've read them all, you have earned twelve blog readership points... after you finish this one, of course. Here are the previous posts:
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Looking at ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 - Part 3 - Bootstrap and JavaScript enhancements
This is part 3 of a 4 part series covering some of the new features in the ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 releases.
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Looking at ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 - Part 2 - Attribute Routing with Custom Constraints
I'm continuing a series looking at some of the new features in ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1. Part 1 (Overview and Enums) explained how to update your NuGet packages in an ASP.NET MVC application, so I won't rehash that here.
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Looking at ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 - Part 1 - Overview and Enums
This is the first in a four part series covering ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1
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ASP.NET - A last look back at 2013, looking ahead to 2014
There's something about getting into a new year that makes us step back and consider the bigger picture. Where is it all headed? Am I making the most out of my life? What web tools and products has Microsoft released lately?
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Two great Kickstarter projects ending soon: Durandal JavaScript framework and bitCommander File Manager
I like Kickstarter. It's not a store, it's an easy way to help fund creative projects. You back projects you find exciting at different reward levels, and then follow along with the project's progress. I blogged about the AGENT watch last June and was excited to see them hit 10x their goal - I'm really looking forward to getting my AGENT watch when they ship.