September, 2011

This is the first in a series of blog posts I’m doing on ASP.NET vNext.  The next release of Visual Studio includes a bunch of great code editing features (which I’ll blog about more in the future).  Today’s post covers some small, but nice, productivity improvements coming to the HTML Editor which will make it easy to quickly accomplish common tasks.  In particular, Visual Studio will now support the ability to activate the “smart tasks” features of ASP.NET Server Controls, as well...

Over the next few months I’m going to be doing a series of posts that talk about some of the cool new features coming with the next releases of ASP.NET and Visual Studio (which we will start talking about more in the months ahead).  They contain a ton of new functionality and improvements – for both Web Forms and MVC - that I think you’ll really like, and which make building applications easier, faster and better.  I will update this page with links to the individual posts I do as I publish...

A few people have sent me email over the summer about my blog: “hey – does your blog still work?”, “did it move somewhere else?”, “did you die?”.  To provide a few quick answers: my blog does still work, it didn’t move anywhere, and I am not dead.  :-) I fell behind on blogging mostly because I’ve been working pretty hard the last few months on a few new products that I haven’t previously been involved in.  In particular, I’ve been focusing a lot of time on Windows Azure – which is...