In the previous post , I wrote about how you can use the existing providers for Google, Facebook etc. and retrieve extra metadata about the authenticated users. Let’s assume you wanted to change the way the providers request for information. Some examples...

Update 1/11/2013: Fixing the code for webforms In the last post I showed how you can plug in your own OAuth/OpenID provider. This post shows you how you can pass in extra data about the provider such as display name, image etc and use this information...

The ScriptManger control has undergone some key targeted changes in ASP.NET 4.5 which makes it easier to register, manage and combine scripts using the ASP.NET weboptimization feature. This post will highlight the changes that have happened to this control...

Last week .NET RIA services was released. In the release the Asp.NET team has released the Domain Data source control and Dynamic Data support for RIA services.Both the control and Dynamic Data support are the part of the toolkit release of RIA services...

If you have seen this error you must have broken your head on figuring out what happened. Which sql product version does 655 maps to.? How do I know what sql version am I running The database 'C:\USERS\Foo\APP_DATA\ASPNETDB.MDF' cannot be opened...

Over the past couple of weeks I have come across lots of questions/discussions on while OAuth/OpenId is cool as a feature in the ASP.NET templates in Visual Studio 2012, but how do I easily integrate this into my application outside of the templates....

When you authenticate a user using the OAuth/OpenId providers, you can request for some extra information about the user if you have granted access for these providers to send this information. For eg if you login using Facebook, you can request information...

Dynamic Data provides a good architecture for adding custom filters to your application. To read more about understanding filtering read the following post In this post I am going to take you through a walkthrough of how you can write your own search...

VS2012 is out and with it brings a host of developer improvements when dealing with data. This post aims at highlighting a few key improvements which will affect you the most and hopefully you will find this information useful in getting started with...

The Asp.Net team shipped a preview release of Domain Data Source control with .NET RIA Services toolkit. In this post I am going to cover some of the mainline features of the control. The post assumes that you know how to create a Domain Service and hook...

For quite a while I have been going back and forth reading msdn documentations to figure out how does an assembly gets loaded at runtime. When an assembly is in the bin of your application and also in the GAC, what gets loaded at runtime, GAC or bin?...

This is a part of the series where we take a deep dive into the inner workings and extensibility of the Razor parser. In this post we are going to take a detailed look at the parse tree that is generated To learn more about the workings of parser please...

Over the last few days,  I have been working on a sample which shows how you can build your custom library of helpers using the Razor syntax and use NuGet to distribute this library as a package so that MVC or WebMatrix application developers can...

I was recently working on Windows ServerCore and had to dig around for setting up the server for running ASP.NET and also do mundane tasks around adding applications to IIS and configuring the app pools. Following is a list of commands for anyone...

I recently went to a talk about how to improve performance of your website. In this post I am going to share out the lessons I learnt while applying some of the best practices to my personal photo view application. The high level points I will be mentioning...

The release of Visual Studio 2012 included updated templates for ASP.NET WebForms, MVC and WebPages. The templates showcased the use of modern standards in HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. Apart from these, they also showcased social login via Twitter, Facebook...

Over the past few days I have working with investigating IDN and punycode  and have come across some common questions around the scenario that we are trying to enable. So in this post I am trying to explain these terms and what do application developers...

This post is a part of the series about how to enable and use OpenID/OAuth support that was added to the ASP.NET templates in Visual Studio 2012. In this post I am going to detail the instructions on configuring your application to use Microsoft account...

I hope everyone has been busy downloading Visual Studio 2012 and have started building awesome web applications. We have been busy too during this time. We have just released an update to the version of Universal Providers that shipped with VS2012. Following...

I gave talk around some of the work the ASP.NET team is doing around standards support and improving performance in IIS8. The demo site/slides can be downloaded here . The slide deck is embedded below Webstandards_TechEdIndia View more PowerPoint...

I gave talk around the new features comin\g up in ASP.NET v4.5/VS11 at Teched. The demo site/slides can be downloaded here . The slide deck is embedded below Webforms_TechEd View more presentations from rustd . Update Videos are now...

Thank you all who came for my talk on ASP.NET WebForms 4.5 at DevIntersection( http://devintersection.com/ ) Please find the slides and the samples as follows Slides Web forms- DevIntersection from rustd Samples I have also...

I gave a talk today about the new features coming in ASP.NET and Visual Studio11. Please find the sample project that I used in my application. This application will only work on .NET Fx v4.5

Every handy man has their own set of recommended tools which makes them extremely productive. Other these years I have developed a liking for a few of them which I would like to share with you. I hope you will like them as well and some of them do increase...

Thank you all for coming for my talk on Building Modern WebForms application.   You can download the samples from   The slide deck is as follows Web forms from rustd