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Enabling the .NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”) in ASP.NET applications

May 12, 2014 May 12, 2014 05/12/14
Damian Edwards
The .NET languages team recently announced the availability and open sourcing of a public preview of “Roslyn”, the new .NET Compiler Platform. This is the long awaited .NET “compiler as a service” that represents the future of languages and compilation for .NET. You can download a preview including new compilers and ...

ASP.NET MVC 5 Lifecycle Document Published

March 4, 2014 Mar 4, 2014 03/4/14
cephalin
Fresh out of the oven is a PDF document that charts the lifecycle of every ASP.NET MVC 5 application. Many of you have requested this document over the years and we're glad to finally put it in your hands now. You will find the PDF document very similar to the ASP.NET application lifecycle topic in its approach. It's a graphical representation...

Scaffolding ADO.NET Entity Data Model Designer-based-models

January 14, 2014 Jan 14, 2014 01/14/14
Ian_Hong
The ADO.NET Entity Data Model Designer (Entity Designer) is a GUI tool for editing Entity Framework models. You can use the Entity Designer to visually create and modify entities, associations, mappings, and inheritance relationships. You can also use the tool to validate the model. When you build the Entity Framework models, Entity Designer...

Attribute Routing in ASP.NET MVC 5

October 17, 2013 Oct 17, 2013 10/17/13
Ken Egozi
Routing is how ASP.NET MVC matches a URI to an action. MVC 5 supports a new type of routing, called attribute routing. As the name implies, attribute routing uses attributes to define routes. Attribute routing gives you more control over the URIs in your web application. The earlier style of routing, called convention-based routing, is still ...

Scaffolding asynchronous MVC and Web API controllers for Entity Framework 6

September 18, 2013 Sep 18, 2013 09/18/13
Xueyuan Dai
Brief Entity Framework 6 introduces support for the .NET 4.5 asynchronous programming pattern using the async and await keywords. And in Visual Studio 2013 RC we’re making it easier for you to take advantage of this new capability by optionally generating asynchronous code when you scaffold MVC and Web API controllers. Why First ...

ASP.NET hosts six community created SPA templates now

May 6, 2013 May 6, 2013 05/6/13
Xinyang Qiu
Since announcement of 4 community created Single Page Application templates when releasing ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 in February 2013, the community has done some updates to the templates and released 2 more templates: Backbone template and Breeze/Angular template.  You can view the details and download the templates at http://www.asp.net/...

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

February 21, 2013 Feb 21, 2013 02/21/13
Xinyang Qiu
With the final release of ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2, we refreshed single page application page on asp.net .  It talks about KnockoutJS Template and introduced 4 community created SPA templates that you can install as MVC templates. There are four improvements for the MVC SPA template RTM release over the RC release that worth a note...

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 ...

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 ...