ASP.NET 5
View Components in ASP.NET Core MVC
calendar_today 12 February 2016 08:45
The ASP.NET Core MVC framework (previously known as MVC 6) includes a new feature called View Components. Here, I take a look at them, the kind of problems they are designed to solve and how to use them.
Configuring SQL Server For Session State In ASP.NET Core 1.0 MVC
calendar_today 11 January 2016 13:14
This article looks at the steps required to enable SQL Server as a backing store for Session State in an ASP.NET Core 1.0 MVC application. It builds on my previous article which introduces how to configure and use session state in ASP.NET 5.
SEO For ASP.NET Web Sites: Getting content indexed
calendar_today 16 December 2015 07:37
This is the last in a series of articles that explore how to optimise ASP.NET web sites for search engines. Each article in the series concentrates on a specific topic and looks at the features and tools available to ASP.NET developers to help make sites search engine friendly and thereby improve rankings and click throughs from search results. This article explores how to ensure that search engines are aware of all of the content you want them to crawl and how to inform them when the location of that content is no longer valid.
SEO For ASP.NET Web Sites: URLs
calendar_today 07 December 2015 08:57
This is the second in a series of articles that explore how to optimise ASP.NET web sites for search engines. Each article in the series concentrates on a specific topic and looks at the features and tools available to ASP.NET developers to help make sites search engine friendly and thereby improve rankings and click throughs from search results. This article will looks at some best practices concerning your site's URLs and how to make them more user friendly for search engines and humans alike.
SEO For ASP.NET Web Sites: Content
calendar_today 01 December 2015 07:53
This is the first in a series of articles that explore how to optimise ASP.NET web sites for search engines. Each article in the series concentrates on a specific topic and looks at the features and tools available to ASP.NET developers to help make sites search engine friendly and thereby improve rankings and click-throughs from search results. This first article will look at how to present your site content to search engines in the most optimal way.
Uploading files with ASP.NET Core 1.0 MVC
calendar_today 27 October 2015 13:58
Handling file uploads has changed quite a bit in ASP.NET Core. This article looks at the new objects that have been introduced to replace the old System.Web based approach from previous versions of ASP.NET. **Updated to RTM**
ASP.NET Core: Dependency Injection and Services in MVC
calendar_today 24 September 2015 08:05
This is the fourth in a series of articles that explores ASP.NET Core by reconstructing the Visual Studio 2015 Web Application template from an Empty template. This article looks at the role of services and the new ASP.NET Core dependency injection system. The series of articles has been developed using Visual Studio RTM and ASP.NET Core Beta 6. It will be kept updated along with newer releases.
ASP.NET 5: Configuration
calendar_today 04 September 2015 09:32
This is the third in a series of articles that explores ASP.NET 5 by reconstructing the Visual Studio 2015 Web Application template from an Empty template. This article looks at the new configuration system added to ASP.NET 5 and will also cover how services like Entity Framework and MVC itself are added to the project. The series of articles has been developed using Visual Studio RTM and ASP.NET 5 Beta 6. It will be kept updated along with newer releases.
ASP.NET 5: Managing Client-side Dependencies with NPM, Bower and Gulp
calendar_today 13 August 2015 21:05
This is the second in a series of articles that explores what's new in ASP.NET 5 by starting with the Visual Studio 2015 Empty site template and progressively adding files to emulate the Web Application template contents and structure. While not actually part of the ASP.NET 5 framework, this article explores the recommended tools for managing client-side dependencies: NPM, Bower and Gulp. These tools are very popular among front-end developers working with other frameworks and now that they have been integrated as first class citizens in Visual Studio 2015, their use is encouraged among .NET developers. The series of articles has been developed using Visual Studio 2015 and ASP.NET 5 Beta 6. It will be kept updated along with newer releases.
ASP.NET 5 Project Basics
calendar_today 04 August 2015 13:20
When you create a new ASP.NET web application using the Web Application template, you are presented with a raft of new folders and files in a completely new structure. This article is the first in a series that attempts to demystify the new structure and the role that some of these files play. The article series starts with the Empty template and adds the various files that you might see in the web application template progressively to illustrate their purpose. This article uses Visual Studio 2105 RTM and ASP.NET 5 Beta 6. It will be updated in line with future releases.
Custom TagHelpers in ASP.NET MVC 6
calendar_today 18 May 2015 13:45
TagHelpers is one of the new features introduced in MVC 6, part of ASP.NET 5. They are used for generating reusable pieces of UI that require some kind of server-side processing. I took a closer look at the built-in collection of TagHelpers in my last article, Introducing TagHelpers in ASP.NET MVC 6. This article shows how to create your own custom TagHelpers. It will illustrate two ways of doing so: through parsing custom attributes; and by binding properties on the TagHelper.
Introducing TagHelpers in ASP.NET MVC 6
calendar_today 11 May 2015 13:17
TagHelpers is one of the new features introduced in MVC 6. The TagHelper's role is similar to the one played in previous versions of ASP.NET MVC by HtmlHelpers: they are designed to simplify the work required to author views that need to respond dynamically to the data provided to them. However, the way in which they work and their impact on view design is very different to HtmlHelpers.
7 C# 6.0 Features That Every ASP.NET Developer Should Know About
calendar_today 14 April 2015 13:25
Visual Studio 2015 introduces a completely new version of ASP.NET, but it also includes version 6 of the C# language. Previous new versions of C# have heralded substantial changes like the introduction of async and await in version 5, dynamic in version 4, LINQ in version 3 and so on. There are no major feature changes or introductions in version 6, but there are a number of syntactical improvements that you are likely to use on a daily basis. Here's a rundown of them.
Sessions in ASP.NET Core
calendar_today 07 April 2015 13:39
ASP.NET Core is being designed so that your application is only dependent on features that it actually needs. This is achieved in large part by creating a composable framework, where the developer opts in to non-essential features - a number of which are baked in to traditional versions of ASP.NET. One of the features that this applies to is Session State. This article looks at how to obtain and use session state in ASP.NET Core applications.
ASP.NET 5 Middleware, Or Where Has My HttpModule Gone?
calendar_today 31 March 2015 13:22
ASP.NET 5 has been largely rewritten from the ground up, and incorporates some radical changes when compared with previous versions of ASP.NET. One of the biggest changes is in the HTTP Pipeline. This article looks at how those changes impact the design and registration of plug and play components that used to be represented by HttpModules.
ASP.NET 5 By Numbers
calendar_today 16 March 2015 13:20
There's a lot of confusion surrounding the numbers relating to the impending release of the next version of ASP.NET. This post takes a look at the main ones and seeks to explain their significance.
