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In this episode of 10-4, we discuss a new feature coming in the next release of ASP.NET MVC: model metadata and validation. This allows you to associate validation rules and metadata with your model and have the runtime perform validation automatically. In addition, you can also have JavaScript emitted...

What a day it’s been!  As well as releasing Web Platform Installer Version 2, we’ve also launched a bunch of Web App Toolkits that show you how to accomplish common web development tasks with small sample apps.  We provide all the source code so that you can go from 0 to F5 in...

This Web Application Toolkit is designed to demonstrate how to extend an existing ASP.NET MVC Web application to provide access from mobile devices. To enable mobile access, the Web application should have views targeting each of the mobile devices to be supported.

We use the MVC pattern to create several...

This Web Application Toolkit is designed to demonstrate how to generate and send dynamic, template-based emails from a web application. There are many common scenarios where notification emails need to be sent to end users. Examples of these common scenarios may involve notifying a user of their...

This Web Application Toolkit shows how to easily add REST service interfaces for an existing Web application. The Web Application Toolkit includes a sample of REST services based on a fictitious online auction site. It exposes an API using REST services built with the Windows Communication Foundation...

In this episode of 10-4, we discuss a new feature coming in the next release of ADO.NET Data Services: server-driven paging. This allows you to constrain the size of result sets that can be requested by clients, eliminating potentially problematic scenarios. In addition, clients can also now request...

In this episode of 10-4, we discuss how the development of data-driven web applications has evolved in ASP.NET and how in the .NET Framework 4 it becomes even easier. Whether you're working on a new or existing application, getting your UI to light up model-level metadata/validation becomes as simple...

In this episode of 10-4, we introduce a new tooling enhancement coming with Visual Studio 2010 and the Entity Framework 4.0: model-first development. This feature allows you to create your Entity Data Model from scratch and then generate a database from it, as opposed to reverse engineering...

In this episode of 10-4, we introduce a new feature coming along with Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0: sentient DSLs. If you've become intrigued with all the hype around leveraging domain-specific languages, but you're concerned about the added complexity that comes with having...

In this episode of 10-4, we introduce another new feature of ASP.NET WebForms 4.0: Routing. The ASP.NET Routing engine was added in the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 release and is heavily leveraged by both ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Dynamic Data to provide bi-directional routing functionality. With the release...