This document provides an overview of ASP.NET 4.5 and ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2. ASP.NET 4.5 introduced improvements to MVC, Web Forms, Web API and performance. ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 added features like scaffolding, friendly URLs and syntax highlighting to Visual Studio. The future of ASP.NET is discussed including moving to a "One ASP.NET" model and potential new features for MVC, Web API and Visual Studio.

2. ASP.NET 4.5 in review
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3. what’s new?
General MVC
 Script/Libraries as NuGet pkgs  HTML 5
 Project Templates  Mobile
 Web Optimization
 Async Web API
 Request Validation
 Data Annotations  New framework for REST
 HTML 5 Web Sockets based HTTP Services
 30% Faster Start
 30% Smaller Memory

4. what else is new?
Web Forms
 HTML 5 Controls
 Model Binders
 Strongly Typed Data Controls
 Unobtrusive JavaScript
Validation

5. open source
aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com
entityframework.codeplex.com
github.com/SignalR/SignalR

6. ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2
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7. what’s new in 2012.2?
Web Forms Web API Visual Studio
 Scaffolding  OData  LESS
 Friendly URLs  Tracing  Syntax highlighting
 Help pages (CoffeeScript, Knockout, Musta
MVC che, Handlebars, JSRender)
 Mobile Emulator
 SPA template
 Selective Publishing
 Facebook template
 Website Publish
 Extensible templates

8. get ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2
www.asp.net/vnext

9. demos
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10. the future
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11. releases for ASP.NET and Web Tools
around every 6 months
ASP.NET
ASP.NET
Sept Feb and Web Sept Take a
4.5
2012 VS2012 2013 Tools 2013 Guess+1
2012.2

12. things we are thinking about
NuGet MVC and Web API
 Support for C++ Projects  Improved Scaffolding – pluggable
 Selective overwrite and with EF 6 support
 Updated membership system with
Visual Studio Windows Azure Active Directory
 OAuth2 and JWT
 More Web Essentials
 OData - $select, $expand, $batch
 Better HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Intellisense  Performance improvements and
more async
 Project template improvements
 Easier unit testing for
 Publishing enhancements
ApiController

13. things we are thinking about - One
ASP.NET
No more project type GUIDS!

14. One ASP.NET - brainstorming
Scenario 1 Scenario 2
 Create an empty ASP.NET  Create a custom template
Application and add capabilities  Snapshot of your application as a VSIX
as it grows
 File -> New Project Scenario 3
 Build up Web Forms UI
 Add Controllers, Views, Model  Auth configuration tooling
 Connect model to Azure Table Storage


Add a WebAPI
Add SignalR
Scenario 4
 Find appropriate NuGet pkgs

15. ASP.NET and Web Tools Themes

16. fun facts
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17. 1 billion PCs running
Windows
Source: International Telecom Union (http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/at_glance/KeyTelecom.html)

18. 1 billion mobile subscriptions
Source: International Telecom Union (http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/at_glance/KeyTelecom.html)

19. that‘s one for
every 7 people on earth

22. ASP.NET and Web Tools Themes

23. links
OData Security Guidance
http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/odata-support-in-aspnet-web-api/odata-security-guidance
Community Templates (MVC4)
http://www.asp.net/single-page-application/overview/templates
Mobile Emulators
http://www.asp.net/mobile/device-simulators

24. questions?
Jim Wang
@turanuk
jim.wang@microsoft.com