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December 2012 - .NET Blog

New Tutorial Series and Sample Application for ASP.NET MVC 4 with Windows Azure Tables, Blobs, and Queues

December 20, 2012 Dec 20, 2012 12/20/12
Tom Dykstra - MSFT
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. The front-end is a web ...

MVC Single Page Application Template Update for ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC

December 19, 2012 Dec 19, 2012 12/19/12
Xinyang Qiu
We added a C# MVC Single Page Application (SPA) template in ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update BUILD Preview. John Papa had written a detailed blog about the preview version. With help of John Papa’s detailed feedback and sample code, we’ve rewritten and reorganized the JavaScript code to make it more structured in RC. We really appreciate the help ...

‘Paste JSON As Classes’ in ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC

December 18, 2012 Dec 18, 2012 12/18/12
Anand Paranjape(MSFT)
‘Paste JSON As Classes’ is a cool feature in ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC. This feature will help you generate strongly typed classes in C# or VB.NET from valid JSON text. With ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC installed, you will see new menu option like below for C# and VB.NET Website and Web Application projects only. This new menu ...

SignalR: Building real time web applications

December 17, 2012 Dec 17, 2012 12/17/12
Gustavo Armenta Valdez
Note: This sample is targeting SignalR 1.0.1  SignalR offers a simple and clean API to write real time web applications where the server needs to continuously push data to clients. Common applications are chat, news feed, notifications, multiplayer games. In this sample, I demonstrate powerful features like: ...

Downloading the .NET Framework and Visual Studio Express Editions and SDKs

December 17, 2012 Dec 17, 2012 12/17/12
Brandon Bray
Update: An updated version of this content is available: Get the latest .NET Bits. We see a lot of daily traffic through the .NET blog and the .NET dev center on MSDN. It is clear from the web traffic data that a key task for many of you is downloading more .NET software, to expand your options and experience developing .NET apps. The number...
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CSS Auto-Sync and JavaScript Selection Mapping in Page Inspector

December 13, 2012 Dec 13, 2012 12/13/12
balach
With the release of ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC (details here), we have added a couple of new features to Page Inspector in Visual Studio 2012, namely CSS Auto-Sync and JavaScript Selection Mapping. I explain these features in the context of a MVC 4 Single Page Application (SPA app) below, which is a new template available in this ...

Knockout Intellisense in ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC

December 13, 2012 Dec 13, 2012 12/13/12
VKichline
WTE (Web Tools Extension) 1.2 RC is part of the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC and it’s available for download from http://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=36053. Knockout Intellisense is an exciting new feature in WTE 1.2 RC.  Knockout is a declarative JavaScript MVVM system for client-side data binding. ...

The new Facebook application template and library for ASP.NET MVC

December 13, 2012 Dec 13, 2012 12/13/12
Yao - MSFT
If you’re looking to build a Facebook App using ASP.NET MVC, then you’re in the right place. With the release of ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2, we’ve added lots of updates to our Facebook Application template and library since we first introduced it in the Preview. The library, Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Facebook, can be downloaded as an ...

Talking about .NET in the Community Press

December 12, 2012 Dec 12, 2012 12/12/12
Brandon Bray
We follow a lot of blogs and digital papers relating to both .NET and also technology in general. There is a lot of great content that gets published every day about .NET. We’re starting a new series to publish these great links, doing our part to help give that content a larger audience. For this post, I wanted to call out some of the ...