Monthly Archives for July 2012
Don’t Forget the CDN
If you’re not already using Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), you should be. They’re a convenient resource that reduce the load on your web site and can improve your users’ browser experience. While working on a side project the other day, … Continue reading
Connecting to a SQL LocalDb instance
If you haven’t heard, one of the things that is new in Visual Studio 2012 is a new version of SQL Express for local development. So when you are editing a SQL script and you need to connect to a … Continue reading
Differences Between ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET MVC – Routing
I’ve done a fair amount of work with ASP.NET MVC over the years, and I understand how routing works in that world. Routing with ASP.NET Web API is bit different though and when I first started with it, some of … Continue reading
Using WebMatrix to Build a Node.js Application That Targets SQL Azure
Mixing and matching Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies has never been easier and in this post, we going to do just that. We’re going to build a Node.js application that serves up data from SQL Azure using a REST endpoint. We’ll … Continue reading
Upgrading an ASP.NET MVC 3 App to Work With Page Inspector
If you haven’t had a chance to play around with the new Page Inspector feature in Visual Studio 2012, drop everything and give it a try. It’s one of the major new features in the next version of Visual Studio … Continue reading