This post gives you an introduction to MVC model and outlines the steps in creating a new site and adding a model, controller and view using entity framework code first. It also gives you the steps to deploy this site to Windows Azure Web Sites. How MVC Works? User sends a request to your web site and that request through a feature called routing goes to controller, In MVC URL does not maps to a...
ASP.NET 4.5 New Features Overview
ASP.NET Web developers needs to understand Visual Studio , NuGet , ASP.NET and Windows Azure for developing cloud services. Visual Studio 2012 made some cool improvements for web development.This post outlines HTML5 , CSS3 improvements in Visual Studio editor, Page Inspector and new features in ASP.NET 4.5. Using Visual Studio 2012 now you can write HTML, JavaScript, CSS and Razor, C#, VB...
Semantic Structures in HTML5
What is HTML5 Semantic Structures? Semantics are meaning of subject, like a word or sentence. This post shows the HTML5 tags that you can use for developing Windows Store Applications. How do you or machine interpret these semantics are matter? Example Semantics via attribution when you look at the divs with the ids and classes, so much repetition going on with people creating header...
Top Features in ASP.NET Web Tools 2012.2
ASP.NET Web Tools 2012.2 is an ASP.NET release with features including entire ASP.NET family (Web Forms, MVC, Web API). This release also includes new tooling for Visual Studio 2012 that improve the web development experience.This post overviews the features in this incremental release. You can download the tools from here.The installation is pretty quick and it would not ask you to reboot...
ASP.NET Web API OData
What is Web API? It is a Framework for building HTTP services on top of the .NET Framework. To get familiarise yourself with ASP.NET Web API then you can read this post here. What is OData? Open Data Protocol is a web protocol for accessing information via services. It is built upon technologies such as XML and JSON. More on this topic can be read here. What is ASP.NET Web API OData? It is a...
OData Querying Options in ASP.NET Web API
What is OData? Open Data Protocol is a web protocol for accessing information via services. It is built upon technologies such as XML and JSON. OData allows you to exposing the data and metadata in a standard way. OData Querying is a query language which allows the clients to send the OData defined parameters in the query string of the request URI. This post discusses the various OData query...
Facebook Canvas Application in ASP.NET
A number of enhancements made in ASP.NET web tools 2012.12 for web developers which can be found here. In this update you have a new ASP.NET Facebook template which actually uses the open source Facebook C# SDK, which helps the developers to build the Facebook Canvas applications. This post outlines creating simple Facebook Canvas Application using ASP.NET and deploying that to Windows Azure...
Web Publishing Features in Visual Studio 2012
There is no formal build and publishing process for Websites in Visual Studio 2010, it is really a set of files and folders. If you use the web site templates while creating a project in Visual Studio 2010 then publishing experience is vastly different from what available on web application projects. New updates have been released for improving publishing experience in Visual Studio 2010 and...
ASP.NET and Visual Studio loves HTML5
ASP.NET and HTML5 works together and in fact ASP.NET & Visual Studio loves HTML5. You can do everything in HTML5 using ASP.NET server language. This post explains some examples how asp.net works with HTML5.
Example:
Using new HTML5 capabilities in ASP.NET File upload control, First thing remove the text after html in DOCTYPE tag in your aspx page then your document is HTML5.
Understanding the ASP.NET Programming Models
This post helps you to decide what programming model is right for you to start writing applications in ASP.NET. Using ASP.NET you can build great web applications. ASP.NET offers three models to build the web applications. The models are ASP.NET Web Forms ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET Web Pages The three models built on top of ASP.NET core web platform. Each model is ASP.NET. Each model creates and...