This post discuss ASP.NET Web Forms 4.5 features, Web Forms in 4.5 allows you to build dynamic web sites quickly and easily. Web Forms generates much cleaner code on client-side with Unobtrusive Validation in this version. You can also build data-centric applications easily with data-binding features. Typical Web Form which contains more fields and validation controls can generate more code on...
Single Page Applications using ASP.NET
What is Single Page Application? Single Page Application is an architecture for web applications. It combines the best of web and desktop, built with HTML5 and JavaScript.Single Page Applications are rich and responsive. You do not need any browser plug-ins needs to install for this architecture, it is a standard web technology that is going to work on any device, operating system and browser...
What’s new in Visual Studio 2011 and ASP.NET 4.5
This post discuss about features in upcoming version of ASP.NET and Visual Studio. Most of the features are around HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. It also discuss about tools and abilities that required to built the modern websites. I am summarizing the MadsKristensen presentation on What’s new in Visual Studio 2011 and ASP.NET 4.5. HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript Adding audio and video tags is...
ASP.NET Web API
ASP.NET Web API is Framework for building for building HTTP services on top of the .NET Framework. It ships with ASP.NET MVC 4. You can install the ASP.NET MVC 4 from here. ASP.NET Web API is a integrated Framework resulted in joint effort from WCF and ASP.NET teams. WCF REST is now replaced by ASP.NET Web API. You can read the post to migrate your existing WCF Web API to ASP.NET...
Calling ASP.NET AJAX Modal Window from JavaScript
This post discusses about calling AJAX model window from JavaScript. The scenario is checking the UI controls in page and alerting the user if he is leaving the page without saving the data. This shows confirmation window with yes and no buttons. The Form body code looks as below 1: <body id="Body"> 2: <form name="Form" method="post"...
Optimizing the website Performance using ASP.NET 4.5
There are so many different ways you can optimize your website performance. You may think why we need to worry about website performance when internet connection speed is growing faster and faster. Just few examples: Google did a test, if their search page is 500ms slower then they are going to lose 20% their traffic. If Amazon runs 100ms slower then there is 1% drop in their sales which is...
Creating Data-driven web apps using ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms
Data binding is simpler and more powerful in ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms.This post discuss about creating Data-driven application using ASP.NET 4.5 preview. It also discuss about different Data access methods, particularly about model access binding features in Web Forms. You need to install Visual Studio 11 Developer preview to use this feature. You can read this post for links to download etc...
Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 Editor
Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 SP1, which provides HTML5 and CSS3 support. Microsoft team said Visual Studio next version have better support for HTML5. This update gives you HTML5 Intellisense and fixes some bugs in SP1 support for HTML5. CSS3 intellisense on latest specification from W3C. Download Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 Editor Please note this is not an...
Deploying Database with ASP.NET Web application
Web applications can be deployed in two different ways one by using one-click publish or by using a Web deployment package. Usually we may want to deploy our database scripts that we used along with the application deployment. This post discusses the procedures to deploy the database along with web application in Visual Studio 2010. Assume there is no database exist in destination and...
Web.Config Transforms in Visual Studio 2010
This post discuss about using Web.Config Transformations in Visual Studio 2010. It is a new feature in Visual Studio 2010.
You have a very simple web.config file as shown below. In this Config file we have a very simple connection string for NorthwindDatabase. It is pointing to the local SQL Server Express instance.