What's New in ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Web Developer 11 Developer Preview – somehow I only managed to stumble across this one recently. It was originally posted in September 2011 – wow, really?
My quick picks for things I’m personally looking forward to here;
Strongly Types Data Controls – one of my pet peeves around non-MVC ASP.NET databinding has been the “bind and hope” approach that Eval has. It always felt a little icky – hopefully this will change now (it looks good on paper, but I think it needs a proper test run before I’ll know for sure).
Inbuilt bundling and minification – simply handy. Looks useful and well thought out, plus if you don’t like it you can always use something else.
Click to create a new event - a nice fix to a small annoyance, no more typing protected void btnMyThingie_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) – it really is the small things sometimes that make the big differences to your day to day workflow.
..and a few smaller things – I think the Maps helper is interesting (kind of a weird thing to be building into a framework in my opinion, but useful none the less), and performance improvements are always welcomed.
This developer wants the shiny new toy, now!
Tags: .NET, ASP.NET, MVC
About me
My name is Ross Hawkins and I'm a developer, consultant, business owner and writer based in Auckland,
New Zealand (pictured below!). My current work revolves around ASP.NET, C#, jQuery, Ajax,
SQL Server, and a mix of other Microsoft development technologies.
I also have about 15 years of experience with IBM Lotus Notes/Domino and associated technologies. While Notes/Domino
is no longer my primary focus I still like to dabble and keep my skills up to date.
I own and run 2 businesses - Hawkins Consulting Services,
and Ignition Development.
Search
Popular Content
Troubleshooting WebResource.axd
The .NET 2.0 framework changed the way clientside JavaScript is
delivered to the browser. Previously, ASP.NET 1.1 used the
aspnet_client directory whereas now 2.0 uses WebResource.axd.
Published on October 8, 2006
jQuery Wildcard Selectors - some simple examples
I wrote about jQuery wildcard selector syntax briefly back in 2009, and since then that post has received a lot of views – way more than a post that brief should ever have seen..
Published on October 14, 2011
Microsoft AJAX Extensions: Sys.Debug is null or not an object
One of the breaking changes which was made with
the 1.0 release of the Microsoft Ajax Extensions was the renaming
of the 'Debug' class to 'Sys.Debug' for reasons of compatiability
with other frameworks. Breaking changes like this can often be a source of frustration..
Published on May 22, 2007
Simple ASP.NET Character Counter
A textbox character counter is a pretty simple piece of functionality, and there's a lot of different ways to apply one to your application. The following method is nice and simple, and can be done using only clientside JavaScript if required, or combined with server side code in order to create a more dynamic effect
Published on December 4, 2006
Adding Tooltips to Gridview Headers
As the title says, this is a very simple but dynamic way of achieving tooltip text on a header column. It's not overly flash, but it's lightweight and quick to implement.
Published on April 15, 2007
Archives
May, 2012 (1)
April, 2012 (4)
March, 2012 (2)
February, 2012 (4)
January, 2012 (3)
December, 2011 (3)
November, 2011 (8)
October, 2011 (9)
September, 2011 (8)
August, 2011 (5)
July, 2011 (4)
June, 2011 (7)
May, 2011 (5)
April, 2011 (3)
March, 2011 (8)
February, 2011 (4)
January, 2011 (3)
December, 2010 (8)
November, 2010 (5)
October, 2010 (6)
September, 2010 (7)
August, 2010 (11)
July, 2010 (12)
June, 2010 (8)
May, 2010 (8)
April, 2010 (4)
March, 2010 (8)
February, 2010 (6)
January, 2010 (12)
December, 2009 (13)
November, 2009 (11)
October, 2009 (12)
September, 2009 (12)
August, 2009 (2)
July, 2009 (7)
June, 2009 (12)
May, 2009 (9)
April, 2009 (9)
March, 2009 (9)
February, 2009 (8)
January, 2009 (7)
December, 2008 (6)
November, 2008 (7)
October, 2008 (9)
September, 2008 (12)
August, 2008 (9)
July, 2008 (6)
June, 2008 (24)
May, 2008 (13)
April, 2008 (16)
March, 2008 (8)
February, 2008 (10)
January, 2008 (1)
December, 2007 (14)
November, 2007 (11)
October, 2007 (11)
September, 2007 (13)
August, 2007 (11)
July, 2007 (5)
June, 2007 (15)
May, 2007 (11)
April, 2007 (9)
March, 2007 (9)
February, 2007 (10)
January, 2007 (8)
December, 2006 (18)
November, 2006 (11)
October, 2006 (14)
September, 2006 (9)
August, 2006 (10)
July, 2006 (4)
June, 2006 (4)
May, 2006 (6)
April, 2006 (3)
February, 2006 (6)
January, 2006 (10)
September, 2005 (2)
August, 2005 (4)
Post Categories
ASP.NET
AJAX
Amusing
NZ
NZ Trains
Notes/Domino
Visual Studio
Web Development
Miscellaneous
Me
Rugby
C#
SQL