An old Silverlight feature is the top vote-getter so far on UserVoice.
It's a preview of the next version of the IDE, expected to hit in 2015.
Visual Studio 2013 came with a new version of Web API. The Web API 2.1 update includes a host of new features, including support for Binary JSON. Learn how to leverage BSON by building a Web API 2.1 service.
ASP.NET vNEXT, Apache Cordova tooling also announced.
Better debugging, support for Async are among the highlights.
How to use MEF to add validation rule components to an ASP.NET MVC Web application.
Part 1 presented six top tips for Visual Studio 2013. Part 2 wraps up the series with seven more tips that every developer needs to know about the latest version of the Visual Studio IDE.
- By Deborah Kurata
- 03/07/2014
Developers are encouraged to vote on which releases will come first.
TypeScript 1.0 is nearing reality.
The enhancements include integration with the ASP.NET Web API.
ASP.NET MVC filters can be defined once and used in multiple places. Because ASP.NET MVC also provides the ability to create custom filters, it's good practice to learn how to make them and use them in your own projects.
Update 2 is not far behind, either.
Once you've delivered server-side objects to your client, you're going to need to manage them. Here's how to integrate a powerful client-side (and server-side) object manager into your application using TypeScript.
Visual Studio 2013 ramps up the expectations of what Microsoft can do when it works as a cohesive team, instead of competing business units.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 12/02/2013
Peter returns to the topic of managing multiple users accessing the same row in a table using Entity Framework, but this time using code-first development. There are some unexpected issues to deal with.
Naming conventions are obviously a good thing, right? Not necessarily -- and only if you understand the problem they solve.
There's no doubt that the ASP.NET Web API is a wonderful thing. But developing services that support content negotiation in a testable way requires a little setup.
Claims-based security lets you manage your site's authorization process using any criteria that makes sense to you. And the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 provides some performance support for you once you start using claims-based security.
As part of building a client-side application in a test-driven way and using TypeScript, Peter creates a Web API service and writes a test that proves he can access it from JavaScript code -- though there are some "wrinkles" in making this work. Along the way, he has an insight about TypeScript versus other, first-class .NET languages.
Eric Vogel covers how to use the new Web API 2 routing attributes to create a Web service in Part 1 of this series.