It is critical for the web developers to target their websites to render on different devices and form factors. ASP.NET templates now using a framework called Bootstrap. What is Bootstrap? Bootstrap is front-end framework for easy and faster web development. This post explains how to use Bootstrap in ASP.NET applications and outlines some of the features of this framework. Create a new ASP...
What is new in ASP.NET Signal R2
This post outlines the some of the improvements in new version of SignalR that included in Visual Studio 2013. In this version 2 issues related performance, stability and API usage are addressed. What is SignalR? SignalR enables you to do the real time browser-server communication that uses the best technology client and server support. SignalR API improvements One of the first features that you...
What is new in ASP.NET Web API 2
Visual Studio 2013 is shipped with ASP.NET Web API2. ASP.NET Web API 2 allows you to easily build secure http services that can be called from any client including browsers and mobile devices. This post outlines how to build a secure http service using OAuth 2 and Visual Studio 2013. 1. Open Visual Studio 2013 and create File –> New Project, select the Web API click on Change Authentication...
Code Analysis Improvements in Visual Studio 2013
This post outlines the improvements that are added to the Visual Studio 2013 IDE. Using the Code Analysis window you categorize the results and you can control the window by saying always appear or not.You can launch Code Analysis window by clicking RunCodeAnalysis on Solution option under Build menu The improvement is ability to sort the results, you can sort the results by rule id, rule name ...
New Features in Visual Studio IDE 2013
Visual Studio 2013 Integrated Development Environment is having great features like new roaming support, notifications and new Visual Studio update experience. This post outlines the many productivity improvements and IDE features. The Connected IDE features Most of the developers might use Visual Studio on two or more machines. It is a challenge to recreate your customisations when you use two...
Power Map Preview Features
What is Power Map? Power Map is a data visualization tool for Microsoft Excel 2013 which allows the users to view the information in new ways. The data visualization is on Three Dimensional(3-D) globe. The preview of the tool can be downloaded from here. Three main Power Map features are Map Data You can easily view more than million rows of data in 3-D and on Bing map from Excel sheet table or...
Data Manipulation using Power Query and Power Pivot
Power Query is an excel Add-in which allows you to connect wide variety of data sources. Power Query has an intelligence to find a data set on a webpage. Once you have the data set you may notice that is not in right shape. Using Power Query you can combine data sets using join, merge operations. Power Query generates the script when you are performing the steps in loading and cleansing the data...
.NET Framework 4.5.1 Features
A year ago .NET Framework 4.5 was released which allows the developers to use Windows 8 technologies and windows runtime directly from .NET 4.5. More on .NET FW 4.5 features can be read here.This post outlines the new .NET 4.5.1 features which mainly focusing on developer productivity, application performance and continuous innovation. Developer Productivity Features Edit and Continue is a...
What is new in Visual Studio 2013 preview for Web Developers
This post outlines the new updated features in Visual Studio 2013 preview for Web Developers.Some of the features described here requires the downloading of Web Essentials for Visual Studio 2103 from here. Some interesting features on JavaScript side are Documentoutline Support to JavaScript (JavaScript Editor Features) In the Editor you can provide meta data in comments to enhance the experience...
Visual Studio 2013 and ASP.NET Preview
Visual Studio 2013 preview was announced in TechEd 2013 by Brain Harry. This post outlines the new features in Visual Studio 2013 preview project templates, Scaffolding update and Web tooling features. When you create a new project in Visual Studio 2013 then you can see only one entry under web category in new project dialog box. You can still see a Portable Class Library entry but that will go...