Learning ASP.NET

ASP.NET is a free web framework for building web sites,
apps and services with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

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Web Sites

ASP.NET is great for building standards-based websites with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.

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ASP.NET powered Web APIs

You can write ASP.NET Web APIs and Services that produce JSON or XML to talk to connected devices!

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Real-time ASP.NET

With ASP.NET SignalR you can enable real-time bi-directional communication between client and server with web sockets.

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Mobile Apps & Sites with ASP.NET

ASP.NET can power your mobile apps with responsive design or mobile frameworks like jQuery Mobile and more.

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Microsoft Virtual Academy event: What's New with ASP.NET 5 (Dec 15)

Join Scott Hanselman, Sayed Hashimi, Daniel Roth, Scott Hunter and Rowan Miller for a full day introduction to ASP.NET 5! Fun, free, and live!

Create your own Domain Specific Language in ASP.NET with TagHelpers

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

[Video] Taylor Mullen explains how TagHelpers work in ASP.NET MVC 6 and demonstrates how to write a variety of custom TagHelpers.

SignalR + RX Streaming Data Demo App

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Nice demo application from Sacha Barber showing how to build a resilient client application with realtime data feeds powers by SignalR and Reactive Extensions.

Constructing URLs the easy way

Monday, December 8, 2014

Darrel Miller posts about his extremely useful UriTemplates NuGet package that makes it really simple to construct URIs with specific values for path segments or querystring parameters.

ASP.NET 5 (vNext) Work in Progress - Exploring TagHelpers

Friday, December 5, 2014

Scott Hanselman posts a helpful introduction to TagHelpers in ASP.NET 5.

Some Thoughts on the new .NET

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Jeremy Miller shares some interesting thoughts on the new .NET and ASP.NET 5 based on his experiences with FubuMVC, his experiences in the .NET open source community, and his team's experiences with Node.js.

Creating multi-target NuGet Packages with vNext

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

In-depth post from Rick Strahl showing how to take advantage of NuGet package output from ASP.NET vNext package creation for multi-targeting.

Installing ASP.NET and Web Tools

Friday, December 5, 2014

Scott Hanselman walks through the process of installing ASP.NET, Visual Studio, and the tools you need to start developing your own website today.

ASP.NET 5 Overview

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

ASP.NET 5 is a significant redesign of ASP.NET. This topic introduces the new concepts in ASP.NET 5 and explains how they help you develop modern web apps.

Manage Client-Side Web Development in Visual Studio 2015, Using Grunt and Bower

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

ASP.NET 5.0 brings some big changes to the project system and build process for ASP.NET apps. In modern web app development, there are lots of moving parts: Server-side code (such as ASP.NET), clie...