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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...

Announcing ASP.NET Session State Provider for Redis Preview Release

May 12, 2014 May 12, 2014 05/12/14
Guang Yang - MSFT
Today, we are pleased to announce a preview release of ASP.NET Session State Provider for Redis. You can use it with your own Redis server or the newly announce Microsoft Azure Redis Cache (Preview). What is Redis Redis is an open source, BSD licensed, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys ...

Deploying your first Facebook App on Azure using ASP.NET MVC Facebook Template

October 31, 2012 Oct 31, 2012 10/31/12
Yao - MSFT
Today we announced the preview for ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update and one of the cool features we added to the update is the Facebook Application Template. This template includes a new library that makes it easier to develop Facebook applications using ASP.NET MVC. Here is the tutorial to learn more about this template. In this post, I won’t be ...

BlogEngine.NET and Windows Azure Web Sites

October 11, 2012 Oct 11, 2012 10/11/12
Brady Gaster
The Windows Azure Web Sites team has been hard at work looking at various applications and working with vendors and community contributors to add some great applications to the web sites gallery. If you’re a blogger and you’d like to get started for free with a simple, yet extensible blogging tool, you might want to check this out. ...