As some of you know, I also run the Microsoft Web Development blog on MSDN. Last week, I had the pleasure of announcing an update to ASP.NET for Visual Basic developers. In addition to being my first post on the topic of Visual Basic, it was a post that really brought my programming career full-circle. I’ll explain Continue reading
Anyone who has worked in an office with me knows that I crave screen real estate. Really… there is no more valuable commodity for a developer. We need to see code, debuggers, client applications or browsers, database connections, communication applications, source control screens, and that’s just getting started. Its a lot to have to juggle in your head, and with your alt-tab keystrokes to be able to toggle back and forth between these essential applications that you need in order to get your job done. This weekend, I started reconfiguring my office to support my additional monitors in a more sensible way. Continue reading
I’ve been at the AngleBrackets conference this week giving several talks and hanging out with the ASP.NET team members at the event. We’ve had several great conversations about the new ASP.NET Tag Helpers functionality in the just announced ASP.NET 5 release. That version is just in beta at this point, but we’re already contributing and getting great feedback on the direction for the framework. Continue reading
A few days ago I wrote a blog post about how I got started writing my first ASP.NET Tag Helper that delivered a Kendo UI DatePicker widget. I realize that I rambled through the features of the tag helper, and in this article I want to cover in detail each of the features currently available in ASP.NET vNext Tag Helpers. Continue reading
I have already heard a bit of feedback about my previous post about ASP.NET Tag Helpers. I want to make sure that I address several of your questions about this new feature in MVC 6, and I’m going to start with this backhanded question from a number of my friends:
“Isn’t this just Web Controls v2.0?”
<sigh> Continue reading