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aspConf – The Free, Online ASP.NET Conference – July 17-18

Posted by Wrangler on August 2, 2012
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Reminder: If you haven’t already registered for aspConf next week (July 17-18), do it now!

aspConf is a free, virtual conference dedicated to ASP.NET. It’s the sequel to mvcConf and mvcConf 2, expanded to two full days of great content on the entire ASP.NET platform. We’ve got an amazing lineup of over 60 presentations from amazing speakers, including a who’s who of ASP.NET community speakers, lots of ASP.NET product team members, and keynotes from Scott Guthrie and Scott Hanselman.

The first day includes several sessions streamed live from Channel 9 Studios, and both days feature multiple tracks via Live Meeting. Switch between them, watch a few at once, and discuss it all on the back channel chat run via JabbR.

Go, register now!

All sessions will be recorded and available on Channel 9. if you want to warm up for aspConf this weekend, take a look at the sessions from last year’s mvcConf on Channel 9. We’ve had over 750,000 views from last year’s mvcConf event!

aspConf – The Free, Online ASP.NET Conference – July 17-18





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Visual Studio 2012 and the Windows Azure SDK for .NET

Posted by Wrangler on June 8, 2012
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One of our primary goals with developer tools is to ensure we enable developers to be very productive while targeting Microsoft platforms.  this includes delivering the relevant tools on the same cadence as the platforms, meaning that the tools should ship along with or in the same general timeframe as platform advances, so that developers can be productive immediately.  this effort should be evident from all of the work we’ve been doing for building Windows 8 Metro style apps with Visual Studio 2012, releasing the Developer Preview, Beta, and Release Candidate builds of Visual Studio 2012 in sync with the corresponding Windows 8 releases.

Today, Windows Azure unveiled its June 2012 updates.  this is a significant release for Windows Azure, delivering new services that simplify building applications that span cloud and on-premises servers.  this includes adding support for a continuum of compute containers, ranging from Windows Azure Virtual Machines (IaaS) to Windows Azure Web Sites, and support for new developer services, like Windows Azure Caching.  For a more detailed exploration of what’s new this spring in Windows Azure, see Scott Guthrie’s blog.

In conjunction with today’s release, and in line with the aforementioned goal, I’m excited to announce that the June 2012 release of the Windows Azure SDK for .NET is now available.  this SDK includes tooling support for Visual Studio 2012, such that you can use Visual Studio 2012 RC released last week to build your applications and services on Azure.  and with the solution round-tripping support in Visual Studio 2012, you and your teams can work on the same Azure projects in both Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Visual Studio RC.  Additional productivity enhancements are also included in this SDK release, such as an improved publishing experience for Web Sites and Cloud Services.  For a more in-depth tour through the new Azure tools for Visual Studio, see Jason Zander’s blog.

Another area we’ve been focusing on heavily across developer tooling is the application lifecycle.  You can see this in the work we’ve done in Visual Studio 2012 around advancing Team Foundation Server and ALM tooling, as well as with the Azure-based Team Foundation Service.  Today, I’m excited to share that Team Foundation Service now integrates with Windows Azure to support continuous integration and deployment of both Windows Azure Web Sites and Windows Azure Cloud Services.  with this, you can streamline your development and operations processes by configuring to deploy automatically after you check-in.  For more information on what’s new in Team Foundation Service and on its integration with Windows Azure, see Brian Harry’s blog.

All in all, this is very exciting set of releases for cloud-based development.  take it all for a spin and let us know what you think.

Visual Studio 2012 and the Windows Azure SDK for .NET

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Get the scoop on the ASP.NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web Pages 2, and Visual Studio 11 Developer Previews

Posted by Wrangler on November 5, 2011
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We just announced a lot of great new information about ASP.NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, and Visual Web Developer 11. Here’s an overview of what’s available, how to get it, and some of the top features.

Note: these are all developer previews. that means they’re not officially released, supported, shipping products; they’re previews to let you get an early look. Read the release notes and play safe!

ASP.NET 4.5 Developer Preview

ASP.NET 4.5 is part of the newly announced .NET 4.5 Developer Preview. It’s available for MSDN subscribers today (9/14) with general availability on 9/16. This release includes a lot of great core features in the ASP.NET runtime as well as ASP.NET Web Pages enhancements.

Top Links for the ASP.NET 4.5 Developer Preview:

  • http://asp.net/vnext is our hub for new information about what’s coming in the next version ASP.NET. Watch it for regular updates… I have production access!
  • Scott Guthrie’s vNext blog post series – Scott’s begun a series highlighting some of the top features in ASP.NET vNext.
  • ASP.NET vNext video series – these are some great ~1 minute screencasts from the ASP.NET PM’s who own the features, and Scott’s been featuring them in his aforementioned blog post series. Stand by for a lot more – I’ve seen the list, and they’re really well done.
  • What’s new in ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Web Developer 11 Developer Preview has a ton of information on what’s on that way. By "ton" I mean almost 10K words, but broken up by so many beautiful screenshots that it you’ll be wishing for more.

Here are some jump links to specific features in ASP.NET 4.5 and ASP.NET from the What’s new page to give you an idea of the features:

ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview

The ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview is available now, and you can install it via the Web Platform Installer.

Top Links for the ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview:

  • http://asp.net/mvc/mvc4 – This is our "official" summary page for information ASP.NET MVC 4, and we’ll keep this updated with the latest information about ASP.NET MVC 4 through the release cycle.
  • Release Notes – the Release Notes are the best way to find out what’s new and changed.
  • ASP.NET MVC Forum – If you run into any questions or issues, posting on the ASP.NET forums is the best way to get feedback from the product team and the broader ASP.NET MVC community.
  • ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile Features tutorial – ASP.NET MVC 4 has a significant focus on developing for mobile platforms, and Rick Anderson’s excellent tutorial is a great way to get up to speed.
  • Phil Haack’s blog post (ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview Released) – Phil announces the release as well as his ASP.NET MVC 4 and NuGet related talks at BUILD.
  • ASP.NET MVC 4 Roadmap – the ASP.NET team doesn’t keep many secrets, and they publicly announced the complete roadmap for ASP.NET MVC 4 months ago. the Developer Preview hints at where things could go, but if you want to see the complete vision for the released product, the Roadmap is the best way to find out.

Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview

Visual Studio Developer Preview is of course a lot bigger than "just" an update for the web development features, but it’s definitely got plenty of them. the new Visual Studio features are also listed in that big What’s new page:

Visual Web Developer 11 Developer Preview

Visual Studio 11 is available for MSDN subscribers today (9/14) with general availability on 9/16. you can find more information about Visual Studio 11 Platform Preview on MSDN.

ASP.NET Web Pages 2 Developer Preview

ASP.NET Web Pages 2 has been announced, with more information to follow really soon. Watch the http://asp.net/vnext page for more information. Here’s the feature summary:

ASP.NET Web Pages 2

Get the scoop on the ASP.NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web Pages 2, and Visual Studio 11 Developer Previews

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Silverlight: Lighting up the client

Posted by Wrangler on August 31, 2011
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At PDC last week, Scott Guthrie showed some of the great apps developers have already built for Windows Phone 7 using Silverlight, as well as the rich set of development tools we have just delivered for building applications with it.  if you missed PDC, you can view the keynote and other sessions at microsoftpdc.com (in Silverlight of course!).

Following PDC there have been questions surrounding Silverlight’s future, and I wanted to apologize for our role in causing some confusion around that. Earlier today, Bob Muglia posted some clarifications about this topic and the very important strategic role Silverlight has going forward.

Silverlight enables developers to build fantastic media experiences and business applications for the client, and applications for phone and embedded devices.  Organizations are already using Silverlight 4 as an incredibly powerful enterprise business application platform (complete with powerful data-binding support, networking, WCF, printing, MVVM pattern separation, and more), which together with the tooling improvements we’ve made in Visual Studio and Expression Blend, enables developers to build great enterprise applications with high productivity and results.

I’m very proud of the work we’ve done in four versions of Silverlight and am very excited about the work we’re doing for the next version and we have plenty more to do.

Silverlight: Lighting up the client

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