This post discuss about features in upcoming version of ASP.NET and Visual Studio. Most of the features are around HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. It also discuss about tools and abilities that required to built the modern websites. I am summarizing the MadsKristensen presentation on What’s new in Visual Studio 2011 and ASP.NET 4.5. HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript Adding audio and video tags is...
ASP.NET Web API
ASP.NET Web API is Framework for building for building HTTP services on top of the .NET Framework. It ships with ASP.NET MVC 4. You can install the ASP.NET MVC 4 from here. ASP.NET Web API is a integrated Framework resulted in joint effort from WCF and ASP.NET teams. WCF REST is now replaced by ASP.NET Web API. You can read the post to migrate your existing WCF Web API to ASP.NET...
Visual Studio 2011 Beta Developer Experience
This post briefly discusses about developer scenarios and improved developer experience in Visual Studio 2011 IDE. The modern IDE inside Visual Studio 2011 looks promising and contain simplified developer workflows. The first change in IDE is toolbar- it is reduced by 35%. Tightened up around UI lots of lined work. The color schema for content has been changes so you can see the code much...
Web Essentials and CSSCop for Visual Studio 2010
This post discuss about new features in Web Essentials extension and Image optimizer which helps developers to write web applications faster. A new extension CSSCop which is a FXCop for style sheets. You can download the Web Essentials for Visual Studio 2010 here. The CSSCop can be download from here. Download link for Image Optimizer is here. You can read my previous post on Web Standards...
Visual Studio Achievements
What is Visual Studio Achievements? Gamification is an idea behind Visual Studio Achievements. Visual Studio is a powerful tool and it contains many features which you may not know about it. Visual Studio Achievement is something you earn when you unlock the Visual Studio feature. It is an add-in to Visual Studio and works with Visual Studio 2010 professional and above. If you are having a...