HTTP can be used for building the ASP.NET Web APIs that exposes your data and business services. HTTP is simple platform that can reach broad range of clients varying from desktop applications to mobile devices. What is ASP.NET Web API? ASP.NET API is a framework for building the RESTful services on top of the .NET Framework. This post outlines the steps to create a web API project in visual...
ASP.NET 5 and .NET Core Framework overview
What is ASP.NET 5? ASP.NET 5 is entirely new open source web application stack for .NET from Microsoft. It designed to meet the need for modern server web applications and it is optimized for modern development workflow. ASP.NET 5 continuous to run on .NET Framework but also run on new framework called .NET Core. ASP.NET 5 on .NET Framework You can continue to run all your applications on .NET...
Publishing a website to cloud using Visual Studio
This post outlines the steps involved in publishing a asp.net websites to Windows Azure sites (Microsoft cloud).Create a new website in visual studio 2013 and right click on the website and say publish web site You will get different options in publishing web window; one of them is Microsoft Azure Websites When you click the Microsoft Azure Websites option then you will be prompted to enter login...
Entity framework 7 features overview
What is Entity Framework 7? Entity framework 7 is a lightweight and extensible version of Entity Framework. This post outlines some basic concepts in EntityFramework 7 and then what is new in EF7? New platforms targeted with EF7 like windows Phone and Windows Store. Off course ASP.NET 5 is supported. The core of entity framework is now supported in mac and Linux. Historically EF 7 is supporting...
ASP.NET 5 main goals overview
The main goals of developing ASP.NET 5 are as follows .NET 4.6 which is a big framework also called desktop CLR. The Core 5 CLR is a subset of desktop CLR. It does not contain Win forms, WCF, workflow or WPF. Development is made much faster by killing the compilation step, when you save the changes in VS editor it then automatically compiles the file you just need to refresh your browser to see...
ASP.NET MVC 6 overview
ASP.NET MVC 6 is a single aligned web stack on top of ASP.NET for doing web UI and web API. The current web stack contains Web Pages, MVC and Web API as shown in the following picture, they do not share much, Web pages and MVC share razor view engine but beyond that they do not share much example html helpers. Both MVC and Web API have their own Controllers, Actions, Filters and Model bindings...
ASP.NET MVC 6 overview
ASP.NET MVC 6 is a single aligned web stack on top of ASP.NET for doing web UI and web API. The current web stack contains Web Pages, MVC and Web API as shown in the following picture, they do not share much, Web pages and MVC share razor view engine but beyond that they do not share much example html helpers. Both MVC and Web API have their own Controllers, Actions, Filters and Model bindings...
ASP.NET 5 internals overview
ASP.NET 5 comes with the default runtime environment called KRE. KRE is K runtime environment which contains compilation, SDK and native CLR host. K runtime bootstraps the environment and runs on different operating systems. KVM is K version manager for installing different versions of KRE.Different commands related to KVM- single command line that downloads and runs the KVM KVM install 1.0.0 –...
Tooling support for ASP.NET 5 in Visual Studio 2015
The main goal of Visual Studio 2015 development is to give wonderful developer experience for visual studio users. VS 2015 provides command to tools to support mixed environment. For example, if you have 10 team members and 8 of those using visual studio and the other two are using different tool set on mac. In new project dialogue in VS 2015, you can see new 4 options Select the ASP.NETvNext Web...
Security and Configuration Enhancements for ASP.NET Projects in VS 2013
Number of enhancements made for ASP.NET Projects in Visual Studio 2013 release. For example, Now you can easily create a Web Forms project which has MVC as a part of it or you could create MVC project which has Web Forms. This release also enabled switching authentication types per project, For example you can create a MVC project that uses Windows Azure Active Directory or you can select...