EF/MVC Series updated to EF5/MVC4

Rick_AndersonJuly 26, 2013Jul 26, 201307/26/13

Tom Dykstra and I have updated Tom’s popular EF/MVC series to the latest release, that is MVC 4 and EF 5. The biggest change was the addition of code first migrations.  What’s great about the updated 10 part series is you can download the end of each chapter. Suppose you want to get a jump start on Concurrency (Covered in ...

Katana License Lifts Windows-only Restriction

howard dierking - MSFTJuly 24, 2013Jul 24, 201307/24/13

(cross-posted from http://codebetter.com/howarddierking/2013/07/23/katana-license-lifts-windows-only-restriction/) Over the past few months, a great deal of attention has been paid to the following clause used in most of the licenses associated with the NuGet packages that we and other teams at Microsoft ship.   “ a. Distribution ...

Tracing in ASP.NET MVC Razor Views

Tom Dykstra - MSFTJuly 16, 2013Jul 16, 201307/16/13

System.Diagnostics.Trace can be a useful tool for logging and debugging, and sometimes it would be handy to be able to call one of the tracing methods from a Razor view. For example, when an MVC application runs in production, by default MVC catches most application exceptions for you and routes them to Views/Shared/Error.cshtml. That view ...

Tracing in ASP.NET MVC Razor Views

Tom Dykstra - MSFTJuly 16, 2013Jul 16, 201307/16/13

System.Diagnostics.Trace can be a useful tool for logging and debugging, and sometimes it would be handy to be able to call one of the tracing methods from a Razor view. For example, when an MVC application runs in production, by default MVC catches most application exceptions for you and routes them to Views/Shared/Error.cshtml. That view ...