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"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."

"What Firebug is for the client, Glimpse does for the server... in other words, a client side Glimpse into whats going on in your server."

"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:"

"The Microsoft Web Farm Framework is a free, fully supported, Microsoft product that enables you to easily provision and mange a farm of web servers. It enables you to automate the installation and configuration of platform components across the server farm, and enables you to automatically synchronize and deploy ASP.NET applications across them."

"I'm excited to announce the release today of several products: * ASP.NET MVC 3 * NuGet * IIS Express 7.5 * SQL Server Compact Edition 4 * Web Deploy and Web Farm Framework 2.0 * Orchard 1.0 * WebMatrix 1.0 "

"The AsyncController class enables you to write asynchronous action methods. You can use asynchronous action methods for long-running, non-CPU bound requests. This avoids blocking the Web server from performing work while the request is being processed. A typical use for the AsyncController class is long-running Web service calls."

The dynamic stylesheet language. LESS extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and functions. LESS runs on both the client-side (IE 6+, Webkit, Firefox) and server-side, with Node.js.

"Optimizing application performance is a key element for business. There are several ways by which we can optimize the applications performance. It can be done either by server side code optimization, caching or some client side optimization. In this post I am going to discuss about one handy and smart way to optimize web applications performance using Bundling and Minification features which is introduced with ASP.NET 4.5 Developer Preview. ASP.NET 4.5 Developer Preview introduced bundling, which combines multiple JavaScript files for faster loading with less number of requests for download and minification, which reduces the size of JavaScript and CSS files by removing unneeded characters . Combination of these bundling and minification helps web pages to load very faster. Let's have a looks how it works."

Cool MVC debug tool