Feb 2nd Links: Visual Studio, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, JQuery, Windows Phone

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my Best of 2010 Summary for links to 100+ other posts I’ve done in the last year.

[I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu]

Community News

MVCConf Conference Next Tuesday: Attend the free, online ASP.NET MVC Conference being organized by the community next Tuesday. Here is a list of some of the talks you can watch live.

Visual Studio

HTML5 and CSS3 in VS 2010 SP1: Good post from the Visual Studio web tools team that talks about the new support coming in VS 2010 SP1 for HTML5 and CSS3.

Database Deployment with the VS 2010 Package/Publish Database Tool: Rachel Appel has a nice post that covers how to enable database deployment using the built-in VS 2010 web deployment support. Also check out her ASP.NET web deployment post from last month.

VsVim Update Released: Jared posts about the latest update of his VsVim extension for Visual Studio 2010. This free extension enables VIM based key-bindings within VS.

ASP.NET

How to Add Mobile Pages to your ASP.NET Web Forms / MVC Apps: Great whitepaper by Steve Sanderson that covers how to mobile-enable your ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC based applications.

New Entity Framework Tutorials for ASP.NET Developers: The ASP.NET and EF teams have put together a bunch of nice tutorials on using the Entity Framework data library with ASP.NET Web Forms.

Using ASP.NET Dynamic Data with EF Code First (via NuGet): Nice post from David Ebbo that talks about how to use the new EF Code First Library with ASP.NET Dynamic Data.

Common Performance Issues with ASP.NET Web Sites: Good post with lots of performance tuning suggestions (mostly deployment settings) for ASP.NET apps.

ASP.NET MVC

Razor View Converter: Free, automated tool from Telerik that can convert existing .aspx view templates to Razor view templates.

ASP.NET MVC 3 Internationalization: Nadeem has a great post that talks about a variety of techniques you can use to enable Globalization and Localization within your ASP.NET MVC 3 applications.

ASP.NET MVC 3 Tutorials by David Hayden: Great set of tutorials and posts by David Hayden on some of the new ASP.NET MVC 3 features.

EF Fixed Concurrency Mode and MVC: Chris Sells has a nice post that talks about how to handle concurrency with updates done with EF using ASP.NET MVC.

ASP.NET and jQuery

jQuery Performance Tips and Tricks: A free 30 minute video that covers some great tips and tricks to keep in mind when using jQuery.

jQuery 1.5’s AJAX rewrite and ASP.NET services - All is well: Nice post by Dave Ward that talks about using the new jQuery 1.5 to call ASP.NET ASMX Services. Good news according to Dave is that all is well :-)

jQuery UI Modal Dialogs for ASP.NET MVC: Nice post by Rob Regan that talks about a few approaches you can use to implement dialogs with jQuery UI and ASP.NET MVC.

Windows Phone 7

Free PDF eBook on Building Windows Phone 7 Applications with Silverlight: Free book that walksthrough how to use Silverlight and Visual Studio to build Windows Phone 7 applications.

Hope this helps,

Scott

14 Comments

Thanks Scott, very helpful

Eldho - Thursday, February 3, 2011 7:23:05 AM

Scott, Its common to observe listview developments for webforms but not common in mvc. For mvc I´m only finding grid views displaying tabular data.

Do you know if its planned to create a webhelper for listview as exist for grid in asp.net mvc?. Thank you so much!

sebastianh - Thursday, February 3, 2011 7:39:59 AM

Sébastian, embrace the extensibility of MVC and feel free to build your own helper.

@scottgu, I've started a modest blog on mainly ASP.NET MVC on www.dev-one.com/Blog, have a look at it ;-)

Fabian Vilers - Thursday, February 3, 2011 8:01:05 AM

Thanks I found something new, but almost I have already read)

BatsIhor - Thursday, February 3, 2011 8:44:26 AM

Thanks 'The Gu'...Am very excited we have a dude like you at Redmond.These look good.

folorunso - Thursday, February 3, 2011 8:47:43 AM

Great articles.

Thanks

FernandoJS - Thursday, February 3, 2011 10:59:20 AM

@fabian thank you, i requested the info just to know if it will be supported officially in mvc. i was surprised that it was hard to find a listview helper approach for mvc, being grid approach very extensive on the other hand. I posted on stackoverflow same question but with little success.. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4875594/best-list-view-solution-for-asp-net-mvc

sebastianh - Thursday, February 3, 2011 3:54:49 PM

Thank I catch something new…but I want to know more about the ASP.Net and JQuery

benivolent - Friday, February 4, 2011 4:40:42 AM

Good one... Thanks...

Aamir Maniar - Friday, February 4, 2011 1:31:08 PM

Will VS 2010 SP1 include a fix for the keyboard stop responding using a MacBook (both using Fusion and Boot Camp)?

The issue is that at some points, VS 2010 stops accepting inputs from the keyboard. Mouse input still works. The only way to fix this is to shutdown VS and then start it back up again. This happens in both using Fusion and Boot Camp. It occurs on a 13" black MacBook (late 2007, black, Boot Camp), 15" Unibody MacBook Pro (late 2008, Boot Camp) and another 15" Unibody MacBook Pro (mid 2010, Fusion).

Might be minor, but extremely annoying.

mc - Sunday, February 6, 2011 1:18:05 AM

I was looking over the jQuery 1.5 release and was expecting the 3 plug-ins that Microsoft donated to jQuery in the jQuery core. I did not see them in there. Am I missing something?

Ed-Asp - Monday, February 7, 2011 10:22:54 PM

Thanks for useful links scott.

RaviShankarKota - Wednesday, February 9, 2011 12:10:06 PM

Thanks for posting the useful links here,..

ecommerce developers - Thursday, February 10, 2011 11:10:00 AM

Hi Scott, would you please provide some information regarding Asp.net webforms next release? It really concerns my future in .Net development.If I could get some clue it would be a great help!

Alex - Wednesday, February 16, 2011 10:33:10 PM

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