Tom Dykstra

To deploy a Code First database to an Azure Web Site, you can use the Execute Code First Migrations check box in the Publish Web wizard:

When you select that check box, Visual Studio configures the destination web site so that Entity Framework automatically deploys the database or updates it by running the MigrateDatabaseToLatestVersion initializer on application start,

We have published the final 3 tutorials in the series on the Entity Framework 6 Code First / MVC 5. At the same time, we updated the first 9 tutorials, adding new material and responding to customer suggestions.
New Entity Framework 6 features covered in this series include:

Connection resiliency
Command interception
Code-based configuration
Async
Stored procedures

The 3 newly published tutorials are these:

Handling concurrency
Implementing inheritance
Advanced scenarios

The 9 that were published earlier and have now been updated are these:

Creating an Entity Framework data model
Implementing basic CRUD functionality
Sorting,

We have published online and downloadable e-book versions of Scott Guthrie’s presentation titled Building Real-World Cloud Apps with Windows Azure (original video version is available here: part 1, part 2).
Along with the e-book we published the code for the Fix It application that Scott developed to demonstrate many of the recommended cloud development patterns.

We have updated our EF Code First / MVC tutorial series to use Visual Studio 2013, Entity Framework 6, and MVC 5. New Entity Framework 6 features covered in these tutorials include:

Connection resiliency
Command interception
Code-based configuration
Async
Stored procedures

The series includes the following tutorials:

Creating an Entity Framework data model
Implementing basic CRUD functionality
Sorting,

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.

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.

The ASP.NET content maps are lists of resources that we have reviewed and recommend. The content maps have been popular in their present form, but we’re looking at ways to improve them, such as by publishing more lists but with a narrower focus to each one,

This week we published an updated version of the popular 12-part tutorial series that shows how to deploy an ASP.NET web application with SQL Server databases. Here are links to the new tutorials, with notes about what’s in them and what’s new:

Introduction 

We are pleased to announce the publication on the ASP.NET site of three guides to ASP.NET documentation resources:

ASP.NET MVC 4 Content Map
ASP.NET Data Access Content Map
ASP.NET Deployment Content Map

The content maps provide links to good quality up-to-date tutorials,

On December 19 we published a new tutorial series and accompanying sample application that shows how to work with Windows Azure Storage tables, queues, and blobs in a multi-tier application that uses ASP.NET MVC 4 and ASP.NET Web API.
The sample application is an email service that runs in a Windows Azure Cloud Service.