After releasing ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2, which is also included in Visual Studio 2012 update 2, we’ve received a few customer feedback about their VS shows an error dialog saying: An exception has been encountered. This may be caused by an extension...

The ASP.NET content maps are lists of resources that we have reviewed and recommend. The content maps have been popular in their present form, but we’re looking at ways to improve them, such as by publishing more lists but with a narrower focus to each...

In Visual Studio 2010 we introduced a simple and straight forward method of transforming web.config during publishing/packaging. This support is called XML Document Transform, aka XDT. It allows you to transform any XML file, not just web.config. To learn...

Tutorial and Tool written by Troy Dai (Twitter @troy_dai) with assistance from Rick Anderson (Twitter @RickAndMSFT ) Search for “asp.net web api routing” on stackoverflow , you’ll find many questions. How exactly does Web API routing work? Why doesn’t...

I have written a tutorial series that shows how to use model binding with ASP.NET Web Forms. You might be familiar with the model binding concept from ASP.NET MVC, but with ASP.NET 4.5, model binding is now available in Web Forms applications. Model binding...

Tom Dykstra and I have published a really cool tutorial on creating a MVC FB birthday app . You can test the app out by clicking on the FB link below: https://apps.facebook.com/birthdayapp-mvc/ The image below shows the birthday app. Yao Huang Lin  ...

I’ve published a tutorial shows you how to build a secure ASP.NET MVC 4 web application that enables users to log in with credentials from Facebook, Yahoo, and Google and deploy the application to Windows Azure. This tutorial assumes that you have no...

In this post, I’ll show how to extend the routing logic in ASP.NET Web API, by creating a custom controller selector. Suppose that you want to version your web API by defining URIs like the following: /api/v1/products/ /api/v2/products/ ...

This week we published an updated version of the popular 12-part tutorial series that shows how to deploy an ASP.NET web application with SQL Server databases. Here are links to the new tutorials, with notes about what’s in them and what’s new: Introduction...

Update 4/4/2013: This problem is fixed in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (VS2012.2). If the internal JavaScript engine could not figure out the IntelliSense in one second, VS will time out instead of keep evaluating (which in some cases can slow down VS...

AspNet Web API OData makes it really simple to expose your IQueryable backend to be queried using the OData query syntax. Check out some samples here . If you are building using Entity Framework as your ORM (object-relational mapping) to talk to your...

With the final release of ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2, we refreshed single page application page on asp.net .  It talks about KnockoutJS Template and introduced 4 community created SPA templates that you can install as MVC templates. There are four...

Today we are sharing a pre-release build of a new code generation framework known as ASP.NET Scaffolding, as well as a scaffold generator (code generator) for Web Forms. The Web Forms scaffold generator can automatically build Create-Read-Update-Delete...

One of the biggest benefits that you have with ASP.NET Web API is that it gives 100% transparency of the source code because it is open source. You can easily enlist in the code repository and add the symbol path based on instructions at the CodePlex...

If you've ever implemented a file upload or download scenario in ASP.NET, you've likely come across the situation of having to provide a MIME type based off of a file extension. IIS does this automatically when it serves files, but it seems like in ASP...

In the previous blog post , you can see how easy it is to enable OData query syntax for a particular action using Web API OData. Simply add a Queryable attribute to your action as follows, and you are done. 1: [Queryable] 2: public IQueryable<WorkItem>...

With the upcoming ASP.NET 2012.2 release, we’ll be adding support for OData to Web API. In this blog post, I’ll go over the three simple steps you’ll need to go through to get your first OData service up and running: Creating your EDM model Configuring...

We are pleased to announce the publication on the ASP.NET site of three guides to ASP.NET documentation resources: ASP.NET MVC 4 Content Map ASP.NET Data Access Content Map ASP.NET Deployment Content Map The content maps provide links to good quality...

Standardizing on ETW In 4.5 we introduced ETW tracing for WCF. In the past couple of months we have been trying to establish some common tools that can be used to debug and analyze ETW traces from WCF. We have a large number of tools that allow ETW analysis...

We have just released the XDT transform engine on NuGet , with a license which allows you to redistribute the assembly with your own product. . If you are not familiar with XDT it is a XML transformation engine which drives our web.config transforms in...

Hi everyone Sayed here. I recently had a customer, Johan, contact me to help with some challenges regarding deployment automation. He had some very specific requirements, but he was able to automate the entire process. He has been kind enough to agree...

The Problem: If you’ve worked with network programing in recent years you’ve probably had to grapple with the IPv4 vs. IPv6 issue at some point. In short, IPv6 is a great new technology for the future of networking, but most applications...

On December 19 we published a new tutorial series and accompanying sample application that shows how to work with Windows Azure Storage tables, queues, and blobs in a multi-tier application that uses ASP.NET MVC 4 and ASP.NET Web API. The sample application...

We added a C# MVC Single Page Application (SPA) template in ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update BUILD Preview. John Papa had written a detailed blog about the preview version . With help of John Papa’s detailed feedback and sample code, we’ve rewritten and reorganized...

‘Paste JSON As Classes’ is a cool feature in ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC. This feature will help you generate strongly typed classes in C# or VB.NET from valid JSON text. With ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC installed, you will see new menu option...