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One ASP.NET - Making JSON Web APIs with ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta and ASP.NET Web API
ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta came out last week. It's got lots of new features as well as some surprises that move us closer to the "One ASP.NET" idea. I talked about this a little in this week's MSDN Flash...
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How to upgrade an HP TouchPad to Android Ice Cream Sandwich
A while back I picked up an HP TouchPad for $99 during the great "HP Tribulations of 2011." It was a fire sale and I was lucky enough to grab one on Amazon. I really like the HP WebOS and I enjoyed...
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"I can't even think about switching phones without these apps." Windows Phone...
I'm still using my iPhone 4s mostly but a Nokia Lumia 800 showed up in the mail last week. Turns out that Nokia was giving away new Lumias to folks that had written Windows Phone 7 applications in the...
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Visual Studio 11 Beta in Context
Today Visual Studio 11 Beta is released and available for download. Don't want to read a big blog post? Phooey on you then! ;) Visual Studio 11 Beta & .NET 4.5 Beta Announcement by Jason Zander +...
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How To Guide to Installing and Booting Windows 8 Consumer Preview off a VHD...
So Windows 8 Consumer Preview is out today. You probably read the Windows 8 Consumer Preview Announcement by Steven Sinofsky and then rushed off to Download it. Disclaimer: Hopefully you are a...
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On the nightmare that is JSON Dates. Plus, JSON.NET and ASP.NET Web API
Ints are easy. Strings are mostly easy. Dates? A nightmare. They always will be. There's different calendars, different formats. Did you know it's 2004 in the Ethiopian Calendar? Yakatit 26, 2004, in...
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Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99%
In astronomy and cosmology, dark matter is a currently-undetermined type of matter hypothesized to account for a large part of the mass of the universe, but which neither emits nor scatters light or...
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How to access NuGet when NuGet.org is down (or you're on a plane)
I was in Dallas today speaking at the Dallas Day of .NET. During my keynote presentation - it included lots of NuGet demos - and for some reason the NuGet.org site was down at that exact moment. I...
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On Pie Chart Diversity at Technical Conferences
This last week at the SXSW (South by Southwest) conference I appeared on a panel that discussed "What can technology conferences do about diversity?" (the audio is up at that link also) The picture at...
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iPhone tethering personal hotspot shows up a as a new network each time (plus...
I often use my iPhone as a Personal Hotspot. I'm not sure what's changed in iOS5 but one problem still exists and the other has gotten worse. First, the 802.11 wireless specification doesn't say...
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Getting a new iPhone or iPad? Don't forget to enter your password 7 times!
I like it when companies have a single login. I've got a single Windows Live ID, a single Apple ID and a single Google login. For the most part, that along with my hanselman.com OpenID unlocks 90% of...
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Features NO ONE NOTICED in Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web
There's a bunch of new stuff in Visual Studio 11 Express for Web that I suspect not everyone noticed. Remember that Express is our free version of Visual Studio. Sometimes I hear folks complain that...
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Extending the Visual Studio 11 Web Browser Chooser and Browse With Menu to...
I talked about some new features that have snuck made their way into the free version of Visual Studio for Web. One of the more useful ones is the Browser Chooser that allows you to quickly launch...
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Why You Should Never Argue in 140 Characters or Less - Geeklist
There is a fascinating "storify" (a list of tweets with commentary that make up a story of what happened on Twitter) by Charles Arthur about an uncomfortable back and forth on Twitter between Shanley...
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Technical Analysis: The Abercrombie and Fitch Brown Pants Fiasco, "Splogs,"...
WARNING - This post will ultimately lead you to sites using offensive racial terms. My Twitter friend Wesley pointed me this apparent Abercrombie and Fitch website advertising a pair of N***** Brown...
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The Privacy Chain - Your Site's Privacy Policy as the 3rd Party services pile up
There are so many really innovative products online right now. A good friend was showing me amazing product called Intercom that lets you see who of your users are online, their social profiles, even...
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Turning 105 gigs of Digital Video into a one hour Wedding DVD with Windows...
Here's the tale of how I took 7 hours of PAL DV tape and digital video, two CD's worth of music, 322 photos that totaled 105 gigs of digital assets and turned it into a DVD of my brother in law's...
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ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages v2 (Razor) now all open...
Happy Tuesday! It's indeed a happy day as I am (literally this moment) at a conference in Las Vegas and have just pressed Publish on this blog post to announce that we are open sourcing ASP.NET MVC 4,...
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.NET Versioning and Multi-Targeting - .NET 4.5 is an in-place upgrade to .NET...
Say what you will about the past ridiculousness of .NET Framework versioning, since the confusion of .NET 3.5SP1 they've been trying to get it right. It's not the magic of Java Version 6 Update 31...
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What geeks need to tell our parents about shopping online safely and securely
Mom and Dad, it's a dangerous Internet. You like it and you use it but you don't understand it. I totally get that. I don't understand plumbing. I know that the sink drain goes into the bendy thing and...
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