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"Zen Coding is a faster way to write HTML using a CSS style selector syntax, and you can now use Zen Coding in Visual Studio via the Web Essentials 2012 plug in (v1.7). Zen Coding was introduced by Sergey Chikuyonok in 2009 (according to Smashing Magazine) and has been updated over time to become a great way to write monotonous HTML much more efficiently."

" Great code has many attributes. It's effective, efficient, maintainable, elegant. When working on code with many developers and teams and maybe even companies, great code needs to also be consistent and easy to understand. For that purpose there are style guides. We use style guides for a lot of languages, and our newest public style guide is the Google HTML and CSS Style Guide."

"One of the major constraints of web applications has always been connectivity. We imagined leveraging the browser to bring fully competent web applications to the desktop, but failed due to the lack of decent browser support. Although there were some caching techniques available before, they were never really designed with the intention of making web applications run completely offline, making them fragile and complex to set up. HTML5 tries to make up for this missing browser capability by introducing the offline application cache; a more reliable way to make web applications truly available even offline."

"ASP.NET MVC 3 introduced global filters, which allows you to add the AuthorizeAttribute filter to the global.asax file to protect every action method of every controller. (In MVC versions prior to MVC 3, it was difficult to enforce the AuthorizeAttribute attribute be applied to all methods except login/register. See my previous blog on security for details.) The code below shows how to add the AuthorizeAttribute filter globally."

"Crazy random logo of evocative clipart combining the .NET Logo and some universal powerplugs into an unofficial logoI always like to remind folks of the equation ASP.NET > (ASP.NET MVC + ASP.NET WebForms). The whole "base of the pyramid" of ASP.NET has lots of things you can use in you applications. Some of these useful bits are Session State, Membership (Users), Roles, Profile data and the provider model that underlies it. Using these isn't for everyone but they are very useful for most applications, even ones as large as the ASP.NET site itself."

"Let's face it - there are a lot of sites out there now running MVC3, probably mostly using the same patterns. This is a taster of some of the creative ways that this versatile platform is being used."

"This document describes new features and enhancements that are being introduced in ASP.NET 4.5. It also describes improvements being made for web development in Visual Studio (Visual Web Developer). "

"ASP.NET Web API has a pipeline for processing HTTP messages on both the client and server. The client and server sides are designed to be symmetrical but independent; you can use each half by itself. Both sides are built on some common objects:"

"Recently, I've been exploring the new ASP.NET Web API. So far, I've been impressed with how easy it is to build RESTful web interfaces. In the examples I've published, none have been secure. In the real world - the world that exists beyond the world of samples and demos - security is a matter than cannot be brushed aside. In this post, I squarely tackle that issue by showing you an approach that locks down and secures your ASP.NET Web API."

"Two years ago I was very sceptical about automated UI testing. I had some painful experience with it because while writing the tests seemed relatively easy, maintaining them would become harder and harder over time to the point where it was impractical to maintain."

"Super Simple Auto Spriting, Minification and Bundling solution No need to tell RequestReduce where your resources are Your CSS and Javascript can be anywhere - even on an external host RequestReduce finds them at runtime automatically"

"One thing that always annoys me when working on a web app is having to write those inevitable pages full of admin functions some of which are just a single button. When hacking up one such page I had a thought - a plug in library providing a command line for your web app might save me a lot of time. NetBash is what I came up with."

"FubuMVC is a "Front Controller" pattern-style MVC framework designed for use in web applications built on ASP.NET."

"In general, you should avoid building strings of HTML in your applications. There are plenty of template/view engines that are much more suitable for generating dynamic markup. However, there are some situations that require you to build snippets of HTML from code (e.g., view extensions in FubuMVC or HtmlHelper extensions in ASP.NET MVC). HtmlTags is the best way to build those snippets."

"The primary issue with running an ASP.NET site in IIS7 Integrated Pipeline mode is if you have any HTTP modules configured. See, the "problem" is that with ASP.NET under IIS6, there were essentially two pipelines: one for ASP.NET and one for IIS. A request would come into IIS and if the file extension was mapped to the ASP.NET ISAPI extension, the request would be passed off to aspnet_isapi.dll and was then processed by the ASP.NET pipeline, which is where the HTTP modules come into play with regards to events that occur in the pipeline. However, in IIS7 there is only one pipeline for those events, and its used for both IIS7 native modules and ASP.NET modules (once the pipeline events have been taken care of, the file is taken care of by the appropriate ISAPI extension)."

"HTML 5 experimentation and demos I've hacked together. Click on the browser support icon or the technology tag to filter the demos (the filter is an OR filter)."

"The .NET CLR can give your web application a significant performance boost compared to other platforms such as PHP due to it's compiled nature. Not only does your .NET code perform better because it's more low-level, it also comes with good support for parallel programming. This guide will not explain the basics of a responsive and fast web application by talking about CSS minifying, sprites, content delivery networks, etc. Instead this guide will be an essential guide for making sure you don't miss any features that can enhance the performance of your ASP.NET MVC3 application. "

"I love ELMAH - this is one those libraries which is both beautiful in its simplicity yet powerful in what it allows you to do. Combine the power of ELMAH with the convenience of NuGet and you can be up and running with absolutely invaluable error logging and handling in literally a couple of minutes."

"Spark is a view engine for Asp.Net Mvc and Castle Project MonoRail frameworks. The idea is to allow the html to dominate the flow and the code to fit seamlessly."

Looked at Spark about a yaer ago and it seemed ok - better than the webforms one. Started using Razor very recently and it is just amazing.

Yup, been using Razor in MM for the last 9 months or more, and it is awesome! But I read this, yesterday, that's why I tagged it: http://geek.ianbattersby.com/2012/01/07/battle-of-heart-vs-mind-you-win-again-razor-over-spark