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New Tools and New Content – ASP.NET, Visual Studio 11 Web and .NET 4.5 Developer Preview (with commentary)

Editor — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:22:59 +0000

While all of you Build attendees are making me feel bad because you have a fancy Tablet and I don't (sell me yours!) the folks over here in the "Angle Brackets Team" (I'm trying out some new names. One will stick.) have been busy. Here is a summary of all the items from our team that have been announced and shown at Build this week, all of this will be publicly available today (9/16) along with a some narrative and asides from yours truly. They are listening One of the things I am am personally enjoying in working daily with this build of Visual Studio is that there's dozens (hundreds) of little "mental speed bumps" that are smoothed over. A lot of thought was put into workflow and common scenarios in order to…(read more)

Bug and Fix: ASP.NET fails to detect IE10 causing _doPostBack is undefined JavaScript error or maintain FF5 scrollbar position

Editor — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:59:16 +0000

Browser version numbers continue to march on. IE9 is here, IE10 is coming , Firefox 5 and 6 are here with 7 and 8 in the wings , Opera's on 11, and Chrome is on, I dunno, somewhere between 14 and 50. Regardless, we'll all be on version 99 before The Singularity. There is a bug in the browser definition files that shipped with .NET 2.0 and .NET 4, namely that they contain definitions for a certain range of browser versions. But the versions for some browsers (like IE 10) aren't within those ranges any more. Therefore, ASP.NET sees them as unknown browsers and defaults to a down-level definition, which has certain inconveniences, like that it does not support features like JavaScript. If you want to see this for yourself, create a…(read more)

Ajax Control Toolkit July 2011 Release – Now on NuGet

Editor — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:31:13 +0000

Say what you will about the Ajax Control Toolkit. Some like it, some don't, but it got 1.15 MILLION downloads last year. Is the ACT dead? Not yet, and there's ongoing work around WebForms, jQuery and an ACT style of programming. More on this soon. There's like 40 different controls in the Ajax Control Toolkit. They continue to be updated and have cross-browser support. The first release this year added IE9 support. This new July 2011 release adds a a new HTML Editor and more complete browser support including (from Stephen Walther's blog): The HTML Editor Extender works on all modern browsers including the most recent versions of Mozilla Firefox (Firefox 5), Google Chrome (Chrome 12), and Apple Safari (Safari 5). Furthermore…(read more)

NuGet Package of the Week #9 – ASP.NET MiniProfiler from StackExchange rocks your world

Editor — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:36:32 +0000

I LOVE great debugging tools. Anything that makes it easier for me to make a site correct and fast is glorious. I've talked about Glimpse , an excellent firebug-like debugger for ASP.NET MVC, and I've talked about ELMAH , and amazing logger and error handler. Now the triad is complete with MiniProfiler , my Package of the Week #9. Yes, #9. I'm counting "System.Web.Providers" as #8, so phooey. Hey, have you implemented the NuGet Action Plan ? Get on it, it'll take only 5 minutes: NuGet Action Plan – Upgrade to 1.4, Setup Automatic Updates, Get NuGet Package Explorer . NuGet 1.4 is out, so make sure you're set to automatically update! The Backstory: I was thinking since the NuGet .NET package management site is…(read more)

Introducing NuPack Package Management for .NET – Another piece of the Web Stack

Editor — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:04:46 +0000

Microsoft's been filling out the Web Stack with more and more right-sized LEGO pieces lately, and today ScottGu announced the developer preview of NuPack . It's a piece of the stack that's been notably missing for years and after using it for a while now, I'm not sure how I lived without it. NuPack is a package management system for .NET. The goal of NuPack is to make the process of incorporating third party libraries into your solutions as simple as possible. Package Management itself is not a new concept. From Apt and "deity" before it at the system-level on *nix, to Ruby Gems, Maven, Synaptic, portage, dpkg, rpm and others, it's a well understood space. There are package managers for operating systems that install…(read more)

The Weekly Source Code 56 – Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit – Code Contracts, Parallel Framework and COM Interop

Editor — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:07:55 +0000

Do you like a big pile of source code? Well, there is an imperial buttload of source in the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit . It's actually a 178 meg download, which is insane. Perhaps start your download now and get it in the morning when you get up. It's extremely well put together and I say Kudos to the folks that did it. They are better people than I. I like to explore it while watching TV myself and found myself looking through tonight. I checked my blog and while I thought I'd shared this with you before, Dear Reader, I hadn't. My bad, because it's pure gold . With C# and VB, natch. Here's an outline of what's inside. I've heard of folks setting up lunch-time study groups and going through…(read more)

Spring Speaking Rollup 2010: Recent Talks and Upcoming Talks at Microsoft WebCamps

Editor — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:27:41 +0000

I've been travelling some, and I have a few more trips at Microsoft WebCamps before I take a much needed break and stop travelling until 2011. I went to Munich, Cairo, and Egypt a few weeks back and presented on ASP.NET MVC (both Beginner and Advanced), .NET 4 in general, Making Your Blog Suck Less , and Information Overload . I presented at Mix 10 on Web Development and Security with Phil Haack . Last week I was in Belgium and The Netherlands and gave some talks as well. I thought it would be nice to put all my recent talks in one place. So, here's some video recordings of some of my recent talks. I hope you enjoy watching them as much as I did giving them. ASP.NET MVC 2: Basics/Introduction Join Scott Hanselman as he explains ASP.NET…(read more)

Video Trip Report: If this is Tuesday, this must be Cairo

Editor — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:43:12 +0000

This last week over a 7 day period, I went to Munich, Cairo and Dubai. I presented in three keynotes and did a total of 10 sessions. I crossed 12 time zones and missed my kids. I talked to/with/at about 3000 people. I'm utterly shattered. I took some video while I was travelling with my Creative Vado HD and slapped it into Windows Live Movie Maker just now. Here's my trip montage. You could call this either "The Glamourous Life of a Technical Speaker" or "If this is Tuesday, this must be Cairo" or "Scott needs to learn to say No." It was great fun, I spoke at VSOne in Munich. I talked about .NET 4 and ASP.NET MVC. We also had a nice Nerd Dinnner . Then I headed over to Cairo Code Camp and the turnout was…(read more)

Put Missing Kids on your 404 Page – Entirely Client-Side Solution with YQL, jQuery, and MSAjax

Editor — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:09:13 +0000

I noticed a post over at a blog called " The other side of the moon " where the author suggests that we put pictures and details of missing children on on 404 pages. It's a simple and brilliant idea. Millions of 404s are delivered every day. We are reporting on missing pages, but not on missing children. He includes a simple PHP solution. I set out to create an ASP.NET solution, but then realized that a server-side solution wasn't really necessary. Could I do it all on the client side? This way anyone could add this feature to their site, regardless of their server-side choice. This could make the solution much more palatable to folks who may not be into .NET. Here's what I came up with. You can see it in action if you…(read more)

2010 Survey Results: What .NET Framework features do you use?

Editor — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:48:39 +0000

In October of 2008 I took an informal survey on Twitter . I wanted to get an idea of what features of the .NET Framework people were using. Also, here's the disclaimer. I did this on a whim, it's not scientific, so the margin of error is +/-101%. That said, the results feel intuitively right to me, personally. I put the poll out again last week, adding only Silverlight to the end as an option. I realize I could have added many other subsystems and choices, but I felt it would have made this new poll too different from the original. There's certainly many ways that it could be improved as a survey, but it's best to think of it more as a "which direction is the wind blowing" question, than a survey per se. I also didn't…(read more)