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Profile and Time your ASP.NET MVC app all the way to Azure

July 29, 2014 Jul 29, 2014 07/29/14
Rick_Anderson
Successful web app dev teams generally consider performance a requirement from the beginning,  not an afterthought. Performance should be considered in all phases of a project, from design and into production, including updates to the app. That's not to say you should try to optimize code before you've measured it, you really don't know...

Writing Web API Client Code for Multiple Platforms Using Portable Libraries

July 19, 2013 Jul 19, 2013 07/19/13
Ian_Hong
The Microsoft ASP.NET Web API Client Libraries make it easy to write .NET clients that interact with RESTful HTTP services. Unfortunately, until recently the Web API client libraries did not support all platforms. Because of this limitation, developers had to maintain different code, depending on the target platform. The new release of ...

‘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 ...

Single Project Add View in ASP.Net MVC 2 Preview 2

October 15, 2009 Oct 15, 2009 10/15/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Last week we released ASP.Net MVC 2 Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2008 Sp1. In the box support for single project areas is now included and the Add View tool has been modified to streamline this scenario. A walkthrough that creates two simple single project areas can be found here. If you follow the steps in the walkthrough you will notice that ...

Downloadable Hotfix: False C# compilation errors for ASP.NET code-behind files in SP1

October 31, 2008 Oct 31, 2008 10/31/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
In SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008, C# introduced a new feature to provide 'live' reporting of compilation errors. Unfortunately, the introduction of this functionality also introduced a bug where in certain cases, false C# compilation errors appear in the Error List for ASP.NET Website projects.  Specifically the...