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Improving Your App’s Performance with PerfView

October 9, 2012 Oct 9, 2012 10/9/12
Brandon Bray
Late last year, Vance Morrison, who is currently an architect on the .NET Framework Performance team, released PerfView, which is a new performance tool for .NET developers. PerfView helps you discover and investigate performance hotspots in .NET Framework apps, and enables you to deliver consistently high-performance apps to your customers...

More Details on the “Closing Tag Problem”

September 27, 2012 Sep 27, 2012 09/27/12
Mads Kristensen
We are testing a fix for the “closing tag problem” bug, but it will still take some time to deliver the fix to customers. The work-around posted earlier will alleviate the problem now and should not need to be undone once the fix is shipped.This bug has actually been in the product for several release, but was previously hidden by ...

Workaround for HTML closing tag problem

September 26, 2012 Sep 26, 2012 09/26/12
Mads Kristensen
In Visual Studio 2012, HTML tags will fail to be automatically closed when using the following keyboard layouts: On these keyboards, the “>” character is typed by pressing AltGr+. or RightAlt+.Work around Typing an HTML tag will now result in the closing tag being automatically inserted, as in VS 2010...

WCF Duplex Bi-directional Streaming with WebSocket Transport

September 26, 2012 Sep 26, 2012 09/26/12
James Osborne-MSFT
DuplexBiDirectionalStreaming VS2012 project DuplexBiDirectionalStreaming.zip Introduction With WebSocket transport, it’s possible to use streamed transport on the Duplex Callback – something that was previously a technical limitation with WCF but is now possible using this transport. New to .Net4.5 is the NetHttpBinding (and ...

ASP.NET 4.5 ScriptManager Improvements in WebForms

September 21, 2012 Sep 21, 2012 09/21/12
pranav rastogi
The ScriptManger control has undergone some key targeted changes in ASP.NET 4.5 which makes it easier to register, manage and combine scripts using the ASP.NET weboptimization feature. This post will highlight the changes that have happened to this control Easy Integration with JQuery and JQueryUI The default templates for WebForms ship with...

Configuring your ASP.NET application for Microsoft OAuth account

September 19, 2012 Sep 19, 2012 09/19/12
pranav rastogi
This post is a part of the series about how to enable and use OpenID/OAuth support that was added to the ASP.NET templates in Visual Studio 2012. In this post I am going to detail the instructions on configuring your application to use Microsoft account for authentication. I am going to be focusing on configuring the application for a ...

An ASP.NET Open Source How-To Decoder Ring

September 15, 2012 Sep 15, 2012 09/15/12
Henrik F Nielsen
As you probably know, ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and Web Pages are available as open source on aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com. If you want to go beyond using the official RTM versions and either use the latest nightly drops, compile it yourself, or create pull requests then here’s a decoder ring for how to get started:1) Using the Nightly NuGet ...

How to use the EntityDataSource control with the DbContext API

September 13, 2012 Sep 13, 2012 09/13/12
Tom Dykstra - MSFT
The EntityDataSource control is designed to work with the ObjectContext API because that's all that existed when the control was created. The DbContext API was introduced later, in Entity Framework 4.1 alongside the Code First development workflow.  Since Code First and DbContext were introduced together you might be accustomed to associating...

ASP.NET Data Access Guidance Published

September 12, 2012 Sep 12, 2012 09/12/12
Tom Dykstra - MSFT
On 9/11 we published a new* set of pages on MSDN offering guidance for getting started with data access in ASP.NET. If you're already using ASP.NET, parts of these pages will just repeat what you already know or take for granted, but a few parts contain recommendations that are new for ASP.NET 4.5. These pages clearly identify which ...