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by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 8/19/2010 4:48:46 AM
This is the twenty-sixth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s blog post covers some useful debugging tips that you can use with Visual Studio. My friend Scott Cate (who has blogged dozens of great VS tips and tricks here) recently highlighted these to me as good tips that most developers using Visual Studio don’t seem to know about (even though most have been in the product for awhile). Hopefully this post will help you discover them if ...
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by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 8/5/2010 5:53:39 AM
I’ve blogged in the past about the VS 2010 Productivity Power Tool Extensions – a free set of Visual Studio 2010 extensions that provide some nice additional functionality. You can read my previous blog posts about it here and here. In today’s post I’m going to briefly highlight a few small, but nice, code editor capabilities that are enabled when you install the free extensions (and which I didn’t highlight in my previous blog posts). Ctrl+Click “Go to Definition” One of the ...
by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 8/4/2010 5:09:12 AM
Last month I blogged about the new Entity Framework 4 “code first” development option. EF “code-first” enables a pretty sweet code-centric development workflow for working with data. It enables you to: Work with data without ever having to open a designer or define an XML mapping file Define model objects by simply writing “plain old classes” with no base classes required Use a “convention over configuration” approach that enables database persistence without e ...
by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 8/2/2010 5:33:13 PM
The (awesome) UK developer community is holding an all day event with me in London on August 13th. The event is free to attend, and the venue will be in Central London (at the ODEON Covent Garden). The website for the event is here. Content The event will be a packed day of presentations covering VS 2010, ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC, and Silverlight for Windows Phone 7. Below is the list of talks: VS 2010 and ASP.NET 4 (90 minutes) A demo heavy talk that covers some o ...
by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 7/27/2010 4:06:23 PM
This morning we posted the “Preview 1” release of ASP.NET MVC 3. You can download it here. We’ve used an iterative development approach from the very beginning of the ASP.NET MVC project, and deliver regular preview drops throughout the development cycle. Our goal with early preview releases like the one today is to get feedback – both on what you like/dislike, and what you find missing/incomplete. This feedback is super valuable – and ultimately makes the final product m ...
by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 7/23/2010 8:09:00 AM
Last week I blogged about the new Entity Framework 4 “code first” development option. The EF “code-first” option enables a pretty sweet code-centric development workflow for working with data. It enables you to: Develop without ever having to open a designer or define an XML mapping file Define model objects by simply writing “plain old classes” with no base classes required Use a “convention over configuration” approach that enables database persistence withou ...
by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 7/16/2010 11:35:12 AM
.NET 4 ships with a much improved version of Entity Framework (EF) – a data access library that lives in the System.Data.Entity namespace. When Entity Framework was first introduced with .NET 3.5 SP1, developers provided a lot of feedback on things they thought were incomplete with that first release. The SQL team did a good job of listening to this feedback, and really focused the EF that ships with .NET 4 on addressing it. Some of the big improvements in EF4 include: ...
by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 7/3/2010 6:01:57 AM
One of the things my team has been working on has been a new view engine option for ASP.NET. ASP.NET MVC has always supported the concept of “view engines” – which are the pluggable modules that implement different template syntax options. The “default” view engine for ASP.NET MVC today uses the same .aspx/.ascx/.master file templates as ASP.NET Web Forms. Other popular ASP.NET MVC view engines used today include Spark and NHaml. The new view-engine option we’ve been working ...
by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 6/11/2010 5:34:24 AM
Last month I blogged about how Microsoft is starting to make code contributions to jQuery, and about some of the first code contributions we were working on: jQuery Templates and Data Linking support. Today, we released a prototype of a new jQuery Globalization Plugin that enables you to add globalization support to your JavaScript applications. This plugin includes globalization information for over 350 cultures ranging from Scottish Gaelic, Frisian, Hungarian, Japanese, to Canadian Engli ...
by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 4/27/2010 12:53:21 AM
This is the twenty-second in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. I’ve already covered some of the code editor improvements in the VS 2010 release. In particular, I’ve blogged about the Code Intellisense Improvements, new Code Searching and Navigating Features, HTML, ASP.NET and JavaScript Snippet Support, and improved JavaScript Intellisense. Today’s blog post covers a small, but nice, editor improvement with VS 2010 – the ability to use “Box Sel ...
by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 4/2/2010 8:28:42 AM
[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] This is the seventeenth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s post covers two new language feature being added to C# 4.0 – optional parameters and named arguments – as well as a cool way you can take advantage of optional parameters (both in VB and C#) with ASP.NET MVC 2. Optional Parameters in C# 4.0 C# 4. ...
by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 3/12/2010 5:24:16 AM
I’m happy to announce that the final release of ASP.NET MVC 2 is now available for VS 2008/Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with ASP.NET 3.5. You can download and install it from the following locations: Download ASP.NET MVC 2 using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer Download ASP.NET MVC 2 from the Download Center The final release of VS 2010 and Visual Web Developer 2010 will have ASP.NET MVC 2 built-in – so you won’t need an additional install in order to use ...
by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 1/28/2010 7:27:22 AM
[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] This is the fourteenth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s post covers some of the output caching extensibility improvements being made to ASP.NET 4. These can be used by all ASP.NET 4 applications – including those built using both ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC. Output Caching Today ASP.NET ...
by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 12/18/2009 12:21:19 AM
In October we shipped the public Beta 2 release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4. The feedback on the new features in VS 2010 and .NET 4 has been really great. I’ve been working on a blog series about some of them (lots more posts to go!) and have also had a chance to present them to a broad range of audiences – and it has been great hearing the excitement people have about them. At the same time, though, we’ve also received feedback that the performance and virtual memory usag ...
by via ScottGu's Blog on 10/21/2009 7:50:57 AM
This is the ninth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. In today’s blog post I’m going to cover some of the new code searching and navigation features that are now built-into VS 2010. Searching and Navigating code Developers need to be able to easily navigate, search and understand the code-base they are working on. In usability studies we’ve done, we typically find that developers spend more time reading, reviewing and searching exi ...
by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 10/13/2009 7:13:25 AM
[In addition to blogging, I have recently been using Twitter to-do quick posts and share links. You can follow me on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/scottgu (@scottgu is my twitter name)] This is the eighth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s post covers a cool new runtime feature in ASP.NET 4 – which is the ability to use URL routing with Web Forms based pages. What is URL Routing? URL routing was a capability we first introduced ...
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