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Free e-book: Blazor for ASP.NET Web Forms Developers

Announcing the release of our new e-book: Blazor for ASP.NET Web Forms developers. This book caters specifically to ASP.NET Web Forms developers looking for guidelines and strategies for migrating their existing apps to a modern, open-source, and cross-platform web framework.

Modern ASP.NET Web Forms Development – Dependency Injection

(image) We’ve all read various ‘best practices’ posts about this framework and that framework from expert developers in the community.  They’ll cover topics regarding how to make your application more maintainable and how to drive down the risk of maintenance in your applications.  A common design recommendation is to structure your ...

Introducing the ASP.Net Async SessionState Module

SessionStateModule is ASP.NET's default session-state handler which retrieves session data and writes it to the session-state store. It already operates asynchronously when acquiring the request state, but it doesn’t support async read/write to the session-state store. In the .NET Framework 4.6.2 release, we introduced a new interface named ...

Announcing the DotNetCompilerPlatform 1.0.2 release

Update Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform is now open sourced on GitHub. If you have any suggestion or issue, please go to this link and post your thought there.   Today I'm pleased to announce that the Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform 1.0.2 package is released on NuGet. It enables ASP.NET to support...

WebForms can Gulp too – Using Node Tools with ASP.NET WebForms

Visual Studio 2015 brought a set of tools into the IDE from the Node environment that are great for web developers to use.  Many folks who build JavaScript applications or single-page-applications were eager to see the introduction of these tools to Visual Studio.  Can the tried and true ASP.NET Web Forms framework use Gulp, npm, bower, and ...

Announcing v16.1 of the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

We are very happy to announce along with our partners at DevExpress, a new version of the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit is now available.  This version, labeled 16.1 delivers some documentation improvements, tutorials, and some long requested updates for existing controls. This is the one year anniversary of the stewardship of the AJAX ...

Improvements to ASP.NET Web Forms

The Visual Studio team released Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RTM. As part of this update we have added new features for ASP.NET Web Forms. This post will highlight some of the improvements done in ASP.NET Web Forms which are part of this release and some changes that we are working on. ASP.NET Identity 2.0 Support ASP.NET Identity is the new ...

Enabling ASP.NET Web API Help Pages for ASP.NET Web Forms Applications

ASP.NET Web API Help Pages is a new preview feature that automatically generates help page style content for your Web API endpoints. You can read more about it at Introducing the ASP.NET Web API Help Page and in further posts on Yao's blog. I won't revisit the basics of the feature here. Instead, what I want to focus on is bringing this new ...