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Visual Studio Web Standards Update for HTML5 & CSS3
Yesterday Microsoft released an update to Visual Studio 2010 to implement a much improved HTML5 & CSS3 support. You can download the Web Standards update from the Visual Studio Gallery and enjoy the new features immediately. I downloaded it last night Read More...
Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 6: Making a WP7 Application Bar
Today I want to show you how to build a Windows Phone 7 Application Bar for your mobile web sites. If you have not done any native Windows Phone 7 developer one of the standard features is the ability to build a toolbar containing up to 4 icons and a Read More...
Google Page Speed Online Tool
Last week Google released a new web page speed analysis tool called Page Speed . Page speed is one of the primary factors that weighs into visitor satisfaction. If you were not aware Google and the other search engines actually measure this as part of Read More...
Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 4: Creating the Home Page
At this point in this series I have shown how to build the core site infrastructure for an ASP.NET MVC 3 mobile web site using the Razor View Engine. So far nothing real exciting has happened as far as true mobile web development. Today that starts changing. Read More...
Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 2: Creating The Core Mobile Layout
Yesterday I started a new series to build a mobile web version of the MVC Music Store reference application. In part 2 of my series of making a mobile version of the MVC Music store I am going to create the core mobile layout. This requires adding a new Read More...
Using an MVC PartialView With jQuery Templates Plugin
The other day I was talking some fellow developers about web architecture techniques. I brought up the use of jQuery templates instead of another proposed technique. A case was made the template plugin was not good for progressive enhancement. The objection Read More...
MVC ActionLink Setting Custom Attributes With Class
Lately I have finally been working on an ASP.NET MVC project using the Razor ViewEngine. I do like the MVC programming style, but just as I suspected when I first learned about MVC there is a learning curve. One of the things I am getting use to is using Read More...
Microsoft Guidance for Silky Smooth Web Sites
Recently a new Patterns and Practices group has formed called Project Silk . The goal of Project Silk is to provide guidance to web developers on architecting great standards compliant web sites. Today I am spending the day with the team and about 30 Read More...
Enable Extensionless Urls in IIS 7.0 & 7.5
The cool thing to do these days is extensionless Urls, meaning there is no .aspx, .html, etc. Instead you just reference the resource by the name, which makes things like Restful interfaces and SEO better. For security reasons IIS disables this feature Read More...
Intro To WebMatrix: Create a Contact Form Part 5 Adding Custom Classes
In the past week I have shared code using the new jQuery Templating plugin to build a nested tree view. The web site is a WebMatrix site and I use some server-side classes to supply the data that drives the page. Today I wanted to walk through this a Read More...
Intro To WebMatrix: Create a Contact Form Part 4 Adding A Master Page
In my three previous posts about using the Microsoft WebMatrix tool I showed how to create a form, add database interactivity and automated E-Mail functionality. Today I want to start making the site take a more usable form by adding a site layout. Create Read More...
Intro To WebMatrix: Create a Contact Form Part 3 Adding E-Mail Support
This is the third in a series of posts on using the new ASP.NET WebMatrix tool. Today we are going to add automated E-Mail functionality. Again the Html Helpers make this a very easy task. Creating the Contact Form Adding Database Storage Continuing where Read More...
Intro To WebMatrix: Create a Contact Form Part 2 Adding Database Support
Yesterday I posted the first in a series on using WebMatrix to build web sites . The first post created a basic contact form and collected the submitted values. Now I am going to add a database and a table to store the site’s contact form submissions. Read More...
Intro To WebMatrix: Create a Contact Form Part 1
Earlier this week Microsoft released a Beta version of WebMatrix , as web development tool aimed at new developers, hobbyist and those new to the Microsoft web stack. Today I am going to walk through building a standard contact form using WebMatrix . Read More...
Microsoft’s WebMatrix, The Simple ASP.NET Editor
Remember the days of Classic ASP? You know when you could build an entire application in notepad and some simple VBScript? Then Visual Interdev came along and well 12 years later we have a mountain range of classes and Visual Studio 2010 along with other Read More...
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