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"So you're ready to start that new and ambitious ASP.NET MVC project. Maybe you're kicking off a new startup or just finally moving that old-and-crusty webforms project into modern development world. Either way, here are a few very simple things you can do immediately after creating that new MVC project that you will thank yourself for as your project grows in complexity."

One of the things my team has been working on has been a new view engine option for ASP.NET. ASP.NET MVC has always supported the concept of "view engines" - which are the pluggable modules that implement different template syntax options. The "default" view engine for ASP.NET MVC today uses the same .aspx/.ascx/.master file templates as ASP.NET Web Forms. Other popular ASP.NET MVC view engines used today include Spark and NHaml. The new view-engine option we've been working on is optimized around HTML generation using a code-focused templating approach. The codename for this new view engine is "Razor", and we'll be shipping the first public beta of it shortly.

"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). "

"Deferreds, new in jQuery 1.5, decouple logic dependent on the outcome of a task from the task itself. They're nothing new to the JavaScript scene; Mochikit and Dojo have implemented them for some time, but with Julian Aubourg's AJAX rewrite landing in 1.5, deferreds in jQuery was the logical next step. With deferreds, multiple callbacks can be bound to a task's outcome, and any of these callbacks can be bound even after the task is complete. The task in question may be asynchronous, but not necessarily. "

"jQuery throttle / debounce allows you to rate-limit your functions in multiple useful ways. Passing a delay and callback to $.throttle returns a new function that will execute no more than once every delay milliseconds. Passing a delay and callback to $.debounce returns a new function that will execute only once, coalescing multiple sequential calls into a single execution at either the very beginning or end."

News site of MVC articles

"SignalR offers a simple and clean API to write real time web applications where the server needs to continuously push data to clients. Common applications are chat, news feed, notifications, multiplayer games. In this sample, I demonstrate powerful features like: A server implementation hosted in IISExpress Client implementations running on IISExpress, a Console Application, and a Windows Store App Doing request/response operations sync and async Server pushing broadcast messages to ALL clients Server pushing group messages to specific devices like a web browser, a desktop, or a tablet."

"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."

Project of a site that makes use of the new ASP.NET Web API via the MVC 4 beta. It creates a single-page web application that looks and works great no matter what kind of device is accessing it. It is also going to form the basis for a number of different design demonstrations, from building cloud-based applications in Azure to creating a responsive, rich UI using the Knockout.js MVVM library.

"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."

"In case you did not see the latest news, what we used to know as WCF Web API was recently rebranded and included in ASP.NET MVC 4 as ASP.NET Web API. While both frameworks are similar in essence with focus on HTTP, the latter was primarily designed for building HTTP services that don't typically require an user intervention. For example, some AJAX endpoints or a Web API for a mobile application. While you could use ASP.NET MVC for implementing those kind of services, that would require some extra work for implementing things right like content-negotiation, documentation, versioning, etc. What really matter is that both framework share many of the extensibility points like model binders, filters or routing to name a few."

"Due to popular demand, here is a tutorial on how I created one of the more complicated pieces of machinery on my new site: the contact form. A lot of different techniques went into this"

I'm not the one that thinks so. Everyone else decided on that :D

EVERYONE!? That's a bit arrogant. Even for you. :P

"A little while ago I wrote a blog post describing granular request validation that shipped in MVC 3 Beta. However, since then we have changed the API for this feature and that post is no longer valid. In this post I will present the new API which is usable in the recently-shipped MVC 3 Release Candidate."

"A new ASP.NET MVC project includes preconfigured Membership, Profile and RoleManager providers right out of the box. Try it yourself - create a ASP.NET MVC application, crack open the web.config file and have a look. "

Async Controller in ASP.NET MVC 3 (and 4)

Use JQuery tablesorter and tablesorter.pager in Asp.Net MVC.