Thursday, March 08, 2012

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Scott Guthrie's Blog on Microsoft ASP.NET technologies including the new MVC4 update is excellent.  You may want to take a look at this blog because it offers so much information on Microsoft Development technologies.  Scott lives in Seattle and builds products for Microsoft.  See Scott take you through the ASP.NET MVC4 Beta.  Just click here to view the video. It contains a lot of excellent information.

In summary the presentation covers the new features in MVC4 that provide a rich set of enhancements to this tool set that is accessible from within Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.  MVC4 comes built-into VS2011 as well.  It does install side by side with MVC2 and MVC3 in the same Visual Studio installation on your development workstation.
  • Bundling/Minification Support - Improves performance on your website. 100% Automatic
  • Database Migrations - Allows production database schema to be automatically updated.
  • Web APIs - Great support in VS for creating Web APIs. Easily create HTTP Services.
  • Mobile Web -  Improved developer support for developing Mobile applications for the phone and tablet.
  • Real Time Communications - Allows for Client to Server Persistent connections over HTTP using SignalR.
  • Asynchronous Support - Reduces the number of threads and server resources; Increases scaleability.
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