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The future of ASP.NET SignalR

September 17, 2018 Sep 17, 2018 09/17/18
Andrew Stanton-Nurse
In ASP.NET Core 2.1, we brought SignalR into the ASP.NET Core family. Many of our users have asked what this means for the previous version of SignalR: ASP.NET SignalR. As a reminder, ASP.NET SignalR is represented by the NuGet package Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR and runs on applications using .NET Framework and System.Web. ASP.NET Core SignalR ...

ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview2 now available

September 12, 2018 Sep 12, 2018 09/12/18
Sourabh Shirhatti [MSFT]
Today we’re very happy to announce that the second preview of the next minor release of ASP.NET Core and .NET Core is now available for you to try out. We’ve been working hard on this release over the past months, along with many folks from the community, and it’s now ready for a wider audience to try it out and provide the feedback that...

Building a basic Web Forms application using Visual Studio 2013

December 19, 2013 Dec 19, 2013 12/19/13
balach
In a previous blog post, we have described the different options you have when creating a new web application with Visual Studio 2013 (VS 2013) and provided an overview of the various ASP.NET features and NuGet packages present in the templates. In this post, I am going to take a specific template in VS 2013, namely the Web Forms template ...

‘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 ...

CSS Auto-Sync and JavaScript Selection Mapping in Page Inspector

December 13, 2012 Dec 13, 2012 12/13/12
balach
With the release of ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC (details here), we have added a couple of new features to Page Inspector in Visual Studio 2012, namely CSS Auto-Sync and JavaScript Selection Mapping. I explain these features in the context of a MVC 4 Single Page Application (SPA app) below, which is a new template available in this ...

Knockout Intellisense in ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC

December 13, 2012 Dec 13, 2012 12/13/12
VKichline
WTE (Web Tools Extension) 1.2 RC is part of the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC and it’s available for download from http://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=36053. Knockout Intellisense is an exciting new feature in WTE 1.2 RC.  Knockout is a declarative JavaScript MVVM system for client-side data binding. ...

How to compress CSS/JavaScript before publish/package

February 24, 2011 Feb 24, 2011 02/24/11
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Today I saw a post on stackoverflow.com asking Using Microsoft AJAX Minifier with Visual Studio 2010 1-click publish. This is a response to that question. The Web Publishing Pipeline is pretty extensive so it is easy for us to hook in to it in order to perform operation such as these. One of those extension points, as we’ve blogged about...

Working with different versions of AjaxControlToolkit in Visual Studio 2010

October 7, 2010 Oct 7, 2010 10/7/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
  When working with different versions of AjaxControlToolkit, Visual Studio 2010 contains some interesting improvements compared to previous versions of Visual Studio. When adding a particular version of AjaxControlToolkit controls (or other similar third-party controls) to the toolbox using the Choose Toolbox Items dialog, we now show...

General Performance Improvements in VS2010 since Beta2

April 30, 2010 Apr 30, 2010 04/30/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
When we released Beta2 in Oct 2009, there was a lot of customer excitement about the super cool features in VS 2010. However, one recurring complaint from customers was that the performance of VS 2010 was not on par with Orcas. Customers were experiencing general slowness in a lot of features that was hindering them with daily operations. We ...

Design View Performance Improvements

April 28, 2010 Apr 28, 2010 04/28/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Hi, I’m Dan Chartier, I work on the Web Tools designer and helped improve its performance in Visual Studio 2010. For some background, Visual Studio 2008 completely replaced the original trident (Internet Explorer) designer with the FrontPage designer (which is also used by Expression Web). While we gained many improvements with this change, ...