I had played with this stuff when it was still WCF Web API , but not too seriously. Then Microsoft shipped ASP.NET Web API with the beta of ASP.NET MVC 4 . I finally got around to taking a look. What I found blew me away and caused me to exclaim “ First ASP.NET implementation: WOW! That’s a lot easier...
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In my post on What is HTML5 Anyway , I talked about that HTML5 has become more than the spec. That’s because this is the first HTML spec to be developed in the era of Web applications and not just web sites. When most people think of HTML5, they think of Geolocation, Offline Web Apps, Local Storage,...
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I’m going to start with Scott Hanselman’s excellent and informative post Visual Studio 11 Beta in Context where he puts the release in context from the ASP.NET side of things. I like the idea of “One ASP.NET”, although I commented on the line “We are trying to give you great...
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The Windows 8 Consumer Beta was just announced in Barcelona. Read this extensive post for a preview and then the download is here ....
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It seems like the Microsoft folks are making good use of the extra day and releasing the Beta of VS 11 and .NET Framework 4.5 on Feb 29th. I just realized I had to start a new category in the blog system here. Here are some relevant links: Jason Zander provides a “sneak preview” into the upcoming beta...
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I just realized that I have been going for a while in this category without defining what HTML5 is? The answers are “it depends” and “depends on who you ask.” You may tempted to define it as the latest version of a mere markup language. However, more recently HTML5 has put on some major muscle with a...
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Since this category is HTML5/CSS3/jQuery, what’s the best way to develop for it? Ever try to edit just HTML/CSS/Javascript in Visual Studio? It sucks! Even in VS11. It wants to make a project for everything but there is no “plain web development” project. I have tried creating an empty...
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There are two books that continually inspire me, no matter how much I read them and they have ties to some of of my past history. There are actually three now, with the new book, Steve Jobs , but that’s a matter of another post. I have read both of these books over a dozen times. The first of these...
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Let’s face it. NetMsmq is the bastard child amongst the WCF bindings. Many WCF developers just resort to the default Request/Response paradigm and the BasicHttpBinding or WsHttpBinding. Of course, queuing and One-Way Asynchronous Messaging can be a powerful instrument in your service designs. But many...
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