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ASP.NET Data Access FAQ

ASPNETUE — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:13:00 GMT

[Note: This blog post is a preliminary version of a document that has been published on MSDN. The published version with changes resulting from the comments received is now available here . Thanks to everyone who sent comments about this version...(read more)

SQL Server Connection Strings for ASP_NET Web Applications

ASPNETUE — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:08:00 GMT

[Note: This post is a preliminary version of a document that has been published on MSDN. The published version with changes resulting from the comments received is now available here . Thanks to everyone who sent comments about this version.] This...(read more)

Choosing a SQL Server Edition for ASP.NET Web Application Development

ASPNETUE — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:06:00 GMT

Choosing Data Access Options for ASP.NET Web Forms Applications

ASPNETUE — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:03:00 GMT

ASP.NET Data Access Content Map

ASPNETUE — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:48:00 GMT

[Note: This post is a preliminary version of a document that has been published on the ASP.NET site. The published version with changes resulting from the comments received is now available here . Thanks to everyone who sent comments about this...(read more)

Visual Studio 2012 RC Deployment Documentation Published

ASPNETUE — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 01:12:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2012 RC introduced a number of enhancements to deployment functionality: Visual Studio now stores publish profiles in XML files, making it easier to share and customize profiles. The publish profile specifies the build configuration...(read more)

Deployment in Visual Studio 2012 RC Using Entity Framework Code First Migrations

ASPNETUE — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:02:00 GMT

In the Entity Framework version 4.3, Microsoft introduced Code First Migrations . Code First Migrations automates the process of making incremental changes to a data model and propagating those changes to the database. In earlier versions of Code First...(read more)

Enterprise Deployment Tutorial Series Published

ASPNETUE — Sat, 19 May 2012 00:38:00 GMT

A new series of tutorials about how to configure deployment of ASP.NET web applications in a continuous integration (CI) environment has been published on the ASP.NET site. A sample Visual Studio solution that goes with the tutorials is available for...(read more)

ASP.NET Security Extensibility Whitepaper Published

ASPNETUE — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:50:00 GMT

This month we published a white paper written by Stefan Schakow that describes changes to the request validation process in ASP.NET 4 and provides detailed guidance on several related security topics: Encryption options and functionality in the...(read more)

Visual Studio Deployment Tutorial Series Published

ASPNETUE — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:34:33 GMT

A new series of tutorials about how to deploy an ASP.NET web application has been published on the ASP.NET site: Deployment to a Hosting Provider . The tutorials show you how to deploy a web application project to a third-party hosting provider using...(read more)

ASP.NET Web Pages - Quick Sheet Documentation Example (Feedback Needed)

ASPNETUE — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:23:29 GMT

This post provides a Quick Sheet documentation example that provides select example code, scenarios, tips and reference of an ASP.NET Web Pages helper. Our team is interested in your thoughts and feedback. Here is a Quick Sheet documentation example...(read more)

Entity Framework Code First Tutorial Supplement: What is Going on in a Fluent API Call

ASPNETUE — Thu, 05 May 2011 01:23:00 GMT

In the new Entity Framework Code First MVC tutorial series there are some examples of what has come to be called fluent API method calls. This term refers to code in which a series of method calls are chained together. The Creating a More Complex Data...(read more)

MVC Entity Framework Tutorials Published

ASPNETUE — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:17:00 GMT

The third series of Entity Framework tutorials, Getting Started with the Entity Framework Using ASP.NET MVC , has been published on the ASP.NET site. The tutorials create a sample application similar to the one that the two Web Forms series create ( Getting...(read more)

Entity Framework Tutorials for ASP.NET Developers

ASPNETUE — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:21:28 GMT

We have been working on new tutorials intended to introduce ASP.NET developers to the Entity Framework. The first series, Getting Started with the Entity Framework and ASP.NET , has been published on the ASP.NET site. The tutorials build a sample...(read more)

WebMatrix – Method Chaining

ASPNETUE — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 21:22:28 GMT

When you want to create a new chart, you can combine a set of method calls for the Chart helper that will include all the information needed to build the chart. When you combine method calls to create an object in this way, it is called method chaining...(read more)

WebMatrix - Positional and Named Parameters

ASPNETUE — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:31:00 GMT

This post provides details and code examples related to Microsoft WebMatrix (Beta). The code examples used in the WebMatrix Getting Started guide show you how to call methods using two different techniques. You can either call a method using positional...(read more)

Best Practices for ASP.NET MVC

ASPNETUE — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 23:14:15 GMT

[This post is based on a document authored by Ben Grover (a senior developer at Microsoft). It is our intention to integrate this information into the MVC 3 documentation on MSDN. We hope to hear from you and welcome any suggestions you might have.] This...(read more)

Translated Captions for Silverlight Videos – It is Dynamic!

ASPNETUE — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:19:00 GMT

This post provides details and code about how to create dynamically translating video captions based on the browser language. By implementing the details in this post you can create the following: A Web based solution that displays machine translated...(read more)

Overview of the ASP.NET API Class Library

ASPNETUE — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:42:00 GMT

When I was first getting started on the transition from Classic ASP to ASP.NET, one of the most daunting tasks was learning the .NET Framework. Learning C# was comparatively easy, because a series of courses introduced the language gradually. But for...(read more)

Response.End, Response.Close, and How Customer Feedback Helps Us Improve MSDN Documentation

ASPNETUE — Tue, 25 May 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Last December someone used the feedback link on the HttpResponse.Close method in MSDN to send the following comment: "Where is any context on use and what is actually occurring?" I maintain the HttpResponse class documentation, so this comment got...(read more)

Caching Application Data by Using Multiple Cache Objects in an ASP.NET Application

ASPNETUE — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:06:00 GMT

I am in the process of writing a Walkthrough document about How to use multiple cache objects to cache application data in ASP.Net 4. This blog post is intended to be a precursor for the Walkthrough. When the Walkthrough is completed I intend to submit...(read more)

Automated Deployment in ASP.NET 4 - Frequently Asked Questions

ASPNETUE — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:30:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4 work with IIS Web Deploy to automate many deployment tasks for Web application projects. We have created how-to, walkthrough, and overview documents to cover this feature, some of which are already available (see ASP.NET...(read more)

Attributes and ASP.NET MVC

ASPNETUE — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:36:00 GMT

Anyone who wants to learn about ASP.NET MVC will quickly discover that MVC makes extensive use of a relatively new feature of .NET called attributes. Many programmers who are new to ASP.NET MVC may also be new to the use of attributes. This article covers...(read more)

First Steps with ASP.NET MVC

ASPNETUE — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:25:00 GMT

ASP.NET MVC is a new web application framework based of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) development pattern. Its purpose is to make large-scale web applications easier to maintain by decreasing inter-dependencies among application layers. ASP.NET MVC...(read more)