This document discusses the history and features of Visual Studio and ASP.NET. It outlines the cadence of Visual Studio releases from 2008 to 2013. Key features discussed include backwards compatibility, support for multiple .NET frameworks, and the removal of the "ASP.NET Configuration" dialog. The document promotes the unification of ASP.NET under "One ASP.NET" and highlights features in Visual Studio 2013 like Browser Link and no separation between Web Forms and MVC.

1. ASP.NET

2. Hi
Robert MacLean
Geek
@rmaclean
www.sadev.co.za

3. What are we going to see today
ASP.NET is massive so focusing on
General themes
Things to make your current sites better
Reasons to laugh at other IDEs

4. Cadence
VS 2008
VS 2008 SP 1
VS 2010
VS 2010 SP 1
November 2007
August 2008 (9 months)
April 2010 (20 months)
March 2011 (11 months)
VS 2012
August 2012 (17 months)
VS 2012 Update 1
November 2012 (3 months)
VS 2012 Update 2
April 2013 (5 months)
VS 2012 Update 3
June 2013 (2 months)
VS 2013
October 2013 (4 months)

5. Other sources of cadence
10+ updates from other teams (ASP.NET, SQL)
Over 20 extensions from Microsoft
IMHO Important
ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2
Git Provider
SSDT
SSDT BI
Web Essentials

6. Compatibility
Backwards & Forwards Project Compatibility
VS 2010 SP 1
VS 2012
VS 2013
Visual Studio supports multiple frameworks
.NET Framework 2.0
.NET Framework 3.0
.NET Framework 3.5
.NET Framework 4
.NET Framework 4.5
.NET Framework 4.5.1

7. RIP
Front Page Extensions
Cassini Web Server

8. Didn’t make the cut
Edit & Continue for x64
Cloud Based Load Testing
Performance Improvements – Average of 35% improvement
New identity model
OWIN/Katana

9. One ASP.NET
Get rid of the always wrong dialog
Allow you to chose based on architecture – not forcing you to chose
features
Web Forms Web Pages
SPA
MVC
Sites
ASP.NET
Web API
SignalR
Services

10. The wrong dialog

11. WebSockets
Long Polling
SignalR
Forever Frame
Examples:
jabbr.net
shooter.signalr.net
Server Sent
Events

12. WHOA!
Visual Studio 2013
No more wrong dialog
Bootstrap theme
SignalR
Browser Link

14. What difference does it make?
Browser Limits**
Firefox 2: 2
Firefox 3+: 6
Safari 3: 4
Safari 5: 6
Received Size -14.3%
IE heads 2 700 to
Sent Size is -37,8%800 bytes*
Average HTTP7:
IE 8:
6 of data!
That’s an Requests 6.3k-40,9%
additional
IE 10:
8
Chrome: 6

15. No more feature fight
Everyone has everything
Bundles & Minification
LocalDB makes me happy!
Scaffolding
Model Binding in Web Forms
Web API

17. Visual Studio – the best web IDE
CSS & LESS are awesome
ZenCoding is fast & fun
The BEST JavaScript IDE.
Web Deploy makes shipping easy

18. What did we see today?
Overview
One ASP.NET
The best web development tool

19. Thanks!
@rmaclean
www.sadev.co.za

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