Windows 8, unveiled in September, will change the way Microsoft-focused developers build applications.
- By Kathleen Richards, Keith Ward
- 10/04/2011
HTML5 is a key part of Windows 8, and web development, going forward. This series will show you how to build great HTML5 applications.
- By Brandon Satrom
- 09/26/2011
Peter Vogel introduces you to the new dynamic event model for JavaScript that's available in all the contemporary browsers.
Scott Guthrie and Jason Zander, corporate vice presidents of, respectively, Microsoft's Server and Tools Business and the Visual Studio Team, today headlined some significant developer focused improvements in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview.
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/14/2011
The technologies bundled as HTML5 finally support what developers have been trying to get HTML to do for decades.
Build a Web site using MVC 3 and the Razor View Engine.
High-transaction environments can use distributed caching to boost performance without major code changes.
Infragistics provides a toolkit for creating data-driven applications using client-side code that accesses a variety of data sources, both in the page and back on the client.
Keith Ward discusses his new position, and has questions for Microsoft's upcoming BUILD conference.
The WebGrid will certainly make the developers who use it more productive. But is it missing the point of the ASP.NET MVC model?
If you want to extend your ASP.NET application to include RESTful calls that return JSON results to JavaScript code in an AJAX page, here's how to manage your URLs to reduce errors, integrate with ASP.NET MVC, and pass objects from your browser to your server.
If you're using the ASP.NET DataSources, you may be missing an important part of their functionality: the power of their events. But sometimes the right event isn't on the DataSource.
If you want to do a better job of managing your configuration settings than just throwing random data into appSettings, you can extend your config file with your own custom XML and actually edit your settings.
Dean Hachamovitch and Scott Guthrie headline Microsoft's 11th Web dev conference, emphasizing HTML5 interoperability and strong ties to open source solutions.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/12/2011
WebMatrix may not have a place in your toolbox, but it probably does have a place in your organization -- and it's one you should foster.
WebMatrix is an exciting new tool for creating ASP.NET Web applications. Unfortunately, Visual Basic developers face an additional challenge because Microsoft only surfaces C# templates. Here's how to get access to the VB templates.
Peter Vogel signs off on his last Practical ASP.NET column, as he shifts focus to a new column called Practical .NET, which addresses the broader arena of .NET development.
Peter Vogel takes a look at Razor and the productivity gains in generating views that ASP.NET MVC 3 provides to developers.
VSM columnist Peter Vogel builds an ASP.NET application that is too clever by half, and finds himself at odds with the very environment he is supposed to be leveraging.
This month's Ask Kathleen column answers your questions about the new Razor view engine in Microsoft's Model-View-Controller framework. Part 1 of 2.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 03/01/2011