Archive for the ‘Community News’ Category

Great Free Course on Building ASP.NET MVC Apps With EF Code First, HTML5 and jQuery

Pluralsight has developed a great training course on Building ASP.NET MVC Apps with EF Code First, HTML5 and jQuery .  It is presented by the most excellent Dan Wahlin , and is really comprehensive.  Details of the course outline can be found…

ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Razor and Open Source

Microsoft has made the source code of ASP.NET MVC available under an open source license since the first V1 release. We’ve also integrated a number of great open source technologies into the product, and now ship jQuery, jQuery UI, jQuery Mobile, jQu…

ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta

A few days ago we released the ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta .  This is a significant release that brings with it a bunch of great new features and capabilities.  The ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta release works with VS 2010 and .NET 4.0, and is side-by-side compat…

Free “Guathon” all day event in London on June 6th

The (awesome) UK developer community is holding another all day event with Steve Sanderson and me in London on June 6th.  The event is free to attend, and the venue will be in Central London (at the ODEON Covent Garden).  The website for the …

Great Free Video Training on ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC

We’ve recently published some great end-to-end ASP.NET video training courses on the http://asp.net web-site.  Created by Pluralsight (a great .NET training company), these video courses are available free of charge and provide a great way to le…

ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update

Three weeks ago we held our MIX 2011 conference in Las Vegas.  MIX is one of my favorite events of the year, and the conference always has a ton of great content and announcements.  All of the keynotes and breakout sessions from the event can…

Free Video Training: ASP.NET MVC 3 Features

A few weeks ago I blogged about a great ASP.NET MVC 3 video training course from Pluralsight that was made available for free for 48 hours for people to watch.  The feedback from the people that had a chance to watch it was really fantastic. …

Announcing release of ASP.NET MVC 3, IIS Express, SQL CE 4, Web Farm Framework, Orchard, WebMatrix

I’m excited to announce the release today of several products: ASP.NET MVC 3 NuGet IIS Express 7.5 SQL Server Compact Edition 4 Web Deploy and Web Farm Framework 2.0 Orchard 1.0 WebMatrix 1.0 The above products are all free. They build upon the .NET …

Links to my “Best of 2010” Posts

I hope everyone is having a Happy New Years! 2010 has been a busy blogging year for me (this is the 100th blog post I’ve done in 2010).  Several people this week suggested I put together a summary post listing/organizing my favorite posts from t…

Update on ASP.NET MVC 3 RC2 (and a workaround for a bug in it)

Last week we published the RC2 build of ASP.NET MVC 3.  I blogged a bunch of details about it here . One of the reasons we publish release candidates is to help find those last “hard to find” bugs. So far we haven’t seen many issues reported…