Ed Andersen

[...] views on living with the Surface RT for six months, and why I’ve picked up a Pro.   Surface Pro on the left, Surface RT on the right. Note the difference in kickstand angles.   The [...]

[...] on home and work machines and have been running the Preview versions on both my Surface RT and Surface Pro. Windows 8.1 has some glaring errors. SkyDrive integration now built in, removes features [...]

[...] # support to Sublime text, Emacs and Atom. Visual Studio is not required. From 2016 onwards, I expect ASP.NET vNext to start featuring in C# developer [...]

[...] of the above flow. First, we create a new “Basic” ASP.NET MVC 4 project in Visual Studio 2012: Which gives us an empty project layout: We need to add some files to this project. [...]

[...] Francisco, I wanted an excuse to use all the latest Microsoft web stack tools. Namely: Visual Studio 2013 Preview ASP.NET MVC5 Beta Entity Framework 6 Beta SignalR 2.0 Beta I also wanted to [...]

[...] lap on in bed. Performance is that of an average Core i5 laptop with an SSD installed. Visual Studio and SQL Server both installed in 15 minutes, whereas Office was pre-installed. All my [...]

[...] still refuses to backup files not on my system drive and deliberately ignores files in the SkyDrive folder, preventing you from having a local backup. I now use CrashPlan which behaves like Windows 7 [...]

[...] laptop you can buy even if you are primarily a Windows or .NET developer. I use a Retina Macbook Pro 13 inch at home and for side projects, plus a Retina Macbook Pro 15 inch at work. Reason 1: [...]

In Part 1, I walked through creating a simple form with a backing ViewModel and Validation. In Part 2, I’ll walk through creating a backing Mode [...]

I’m going to walk through the basics of Form submission with ASP.NET MVC, showing some best practices. This set of tutorials will be useful for [...]

[...] in, removes features compared to the old Desktop client You no longer have to install the SkyDrive app separately as it is now built into the OS. Windows 8.1 makes a concerted effort to force you [...]

[...] documents. On the left is Windows 8’s SkyDrive integration after installing the SkyDrive Desktop app. On the right is Windows 8.1’s built-in SkyDrive integration. This is now a system- [...]

[...] small in that at the time of writing this blog post I was at the top of Google for “ASP.NET MVC Tokyo”: If that isn’t a reason to move on, I don’t know what is. Before the move to the [...]