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...
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...
What is Katana and OWIN for ASP.NET?
Katana is not a revolutionary new project in ASP.NET world. It is just a next step in ASP.NET, The points that drive to go for Katana and OWIN are, Basically ASP.NET was optimised for two types of customers one classing ASP developers and second one LOB(line of business app) developers. From the beginning it was expected to run these applications under IIS(internet information services)...
jQuery UI autocomplete in ASP.NET MVC
jQuery UI is a jQuery plug-in which contains widgets and it is tightly integrate with jQuery API. To include jQuery UI across your MVC application refer the below scripts in layout view. <script src="~/Scripts/jquery-1.8.2.min.js"></script> <script src="~/Scripts/jquery.unobtrusive-ajax.min.js"></script> <script src="~/Scripts/jquery-ui-1.10.2.min.js"></script>...
Using ListView Control in ASP.NET 4.5
ASP.NET ListView Control has a great features that GridView and Repeater controls had control over the markup. The ListView Control allows you to display the data in various formats including grid format, bulleted list format and in flow format. You will be having the better control on HTML and CSS to format the data. This post explains the ListView templates, properties and Inserting and...
Validation Components in ASP.NET MVC
Validating the user input and showing a user-friendly error message is an important step in Web Application development. ASP.NET MVC framework provides validation features which helps developer to validate model values. The validation features in MVC allows you to write the validation using attributes which is called data annotations. This post outlines the data annotation features that you can...
Using Caching in ASP.NET Web Applications
Caching is a way which you can use to improve the performance of an ASP.NET Web applications. Caching is a location where you can store the data and access quickly. You have to use caching carefully and this post explains different caching mechanisms that available in ASP.NET web applications.The three ways that you can use to store the Cache data in ASP.NET applications are Output Caching...