Introducing NuGet Docs: http://docs.nuget.org! NuGet Docs is a community driven documentation site that provides guides, walkthroughs, and information about anything and everything NuGet related. NuGet Docs is your new resource for learning and understanding how to use NuGet to the fullest. There is information about how to use NuGet to consume packages, information about how to create your own packages, and even information about how to contribute to NuGet along with much more. This is... more
Today I am excited to announce that I have joined the Dark Side and by Dark Side I mean the developer team here at Microsoft. Many of you know that for the past two and half years I have worked on the ASP.NET team as a Software Development Engineer in Test or SDET. It has been an awesome experience and I enjoyed every minute of it, however my true passion is writing production code and... more
With the latest release of WebMatrix and ASP.NET WebPages I am proud to announce that we have been working to clean up the HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and general file and folder structures of the templates that we ship with the product. One of the major objectives was to provide general guidance on how a developer might actually set up a production website. This means we wanted to get ride of the “this is just a... more
One of the features in ASP.NET WebPages that is super powerful yet super simple is the “magic names” you can give to a page that make that page behave differently. Unfortunately the feature isn’t really called “magic names” (That would be way too cool!). Instead they are broken down into the two variations, Start pages and Init Pages. You may have seen these pages used before in other posts (I used one in my SimpleMembership... more
With the introduction of ASP.NET WebPages and the WebMatrix stack our team has really be focusing on making things simpler for the developer. Based on a lot of customer feedback one of the areas that we wanted to improve was the built in security in ASP.NET. So with this release we took that time to create a new built in (and default for ASP.NET WebPages) security provider. I say provider because the new stuff is... more