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ASP.NET MVC, Data Access, and Deployment Content Maps Published
We are pleased to announce the publication on the ASP.NET site of three guides to ASP.NET documentation resources: The content maps provide links to good quality up-to-date tutorials, articles, blogs, videos, and forum and StackOverflow threads. The guides exist on MSDN, but we’re publishing updated versions on the ASP.NET site now in hopes that they’ll get more use and generate more feedback. With your help, we hope to update them every 4-6 weeks with the latest and best links. The top of each page includes an invitation to email us with suggestions: If you know a great blog post,...
Introducing SvcPerf – An End-to-End trace Analysis tool for WCF
Standardizing on ETW In 4.5 we introduced ETW tracing for WCF. In the past couple of months we have been trying to establish some common tools that can be used to debug and analyze ETW traces from WCF. We have a large number of tools that allow ETW analysis and the one aspect we wanted to do was to allow activity correlation which WCF uses extensively. Folks who have already used ETW in its full capacity already know about ETW activities and how they are propagated. Those of you who don't, this FAQ: Common Questions for ETW and Windows Event Log should be a good start point. Others who just want to jump in, hop ...
XDT (web.config) transform engine released on NuGet
We have just released the XDT transform engine on NuGet, with a license which allows you to redistribute the assembly with your own product. . If you are not familiar with XDT it is a XML transformation engine which drives our web.config transforms in Visual Studio. You can read more about XDT at here. You can now take a dependency on XDT and ship it with your own product.For specifics on the terms of use please read the license. Why are we doing this?One of the top 10 most voted features for NuGet is Support Visual Studio (XDT) web.config transforms. To summarize the request, NuGet package authors would like to ...
Real Scenario: folder deployment scenarios with MSDeploy
Hi everyone Sayed here. I recently had a customer, Johan, contact me to help with some challenges regarding deployment automation. He had some very specific requirements, but he was able to automate the entire process. He has been kind enough to agree to write up his experience to share with everyone. His story is below. If you have any comments please let us know. I will pass them to Johan. I’d like to thank Johan for his willingness to write this up and share it. FYI if you’d like me to help you in your projects I will certainly do my best, but if you are willing to share your story like Johan it will motivate...
Dual Mode Sockets – Never create an IPv4 Socket again
The Problem:If you’ve worked with network programing in recent years you’ve probably had to grapple with the IPv4 vs. IPv6 issue at some point. In short, IPv6 is a great new technology for the future of networking, but most applications will still have to support IPv4 for several years during the transition. Working at the socket layer developers most commonly address this by creating both an IPv4 and IPv6 socket and then juggling them back and forth as needed. Some existing System.Net APIs do this for you, such as: These APIs were a helpful mitigation but they only covered a subs...
C# is the “Language of the Year”
It’s a great way to start a new year: the PYPL index has named C# the language of the year. This index focuses on the leading indicator of learning a language. It’s nice to see that there’s been increased interest in C# over the past year. In the spirit of learning something new, here’s what we suggest you check out if you’re looking to learn a new C# trick. What new C# skill would you recommend everyone learn? Share your thoughts in the comments.
New Tutorial Series and Sample Application for ASP.NET MVC 4 with Windows Azure Tables, Blobs, and Queues
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 role that manages mailing lists, subscribers, and messages. The back-end is a pair of worker roles that handle scheduling and sending emails. There are five tutorials: one provides an overview of the application, one shows how to download and run the completed applicat...
MVC Single Page Application Template Update for ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC
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 from John Papa. He just wrote another blog about SPA template in RC version. The major improvement for the MVC Single Page Template RC release includes the following: 1. Added VB MVC SPA template for .net framework 4.5 and 4.0. 2. Added WebAPI HelpPage support 3. Moved all t...
‘Paste JSON As Classes’ in ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC
‘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 option will be enabled for .cs and .vb file extensions inside these projects: JSON to C#/VB.NET class conversion To use this feature, just copy sample JSON text and “Paste JSON As Classes” inside .vb or .cs file. This feature uses Newtonsoft JSON parser to parse JSON t...