DevCon Digest # 2. Immerse in ASP.NET

Greetings We continue the series of thematic collections of materials on the topics of the DevCon conference . If last time we plunged into materials related in general to .NET , today we look deeper into the server technologies, or rather, the new ASP.NET .

Open source code

ASP.NET on GitHub

ASP.NET source codes in open form. From relatively fresh, I recommend to pay attention to the ASP.NET 5 Docker image and .NET XRE (Cross-Platform Runtime SDK). And, of course, the documentation for the new ASP.NET is also on GitHub.
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News and Articles

Having fun with ASP.NET 5, Linux and Docker ( part 1 , part 2 and part 3 ) [En]

An article by Mark Rendel (Mark Rendel) about how he, using the virtual machines, started ASP.NET under ElementaryOS. In the first part, Mark begins with installing ASP.NET on top of Mono, the second part is devoted to setting up code editors, and the third - preparing a project for launching in a Docker container.

ASP.NET 5 and AngulaJS Article Series [En]

Stephen Walther (Stephen Walther) wrote a large series of articles on developing applications for ASP.NET 5 using AngularJS:

1. Grunt, Uglify, and AngularJS [En]
2. Using the MVC 6 Web API [En]
3. Adding client paths [En]
4. Using Entity Framework 7 [En]
5. Form validation [En]
6. Security [En]
7. Run on Mac [En]

ASP.NET. Dive into Owin / Katana ( Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 and Part 4 ) [En]

A series of articles by John Atter (John Atter) on the creation of ASP.NET applications that work on top of the OWIN specification and, accordingly, Katana - a set of open components that implement it.

The first article provides basic definitions and shows how to create a simple project. The second tells how to create from scratch a project with a Web API working in the OWIN / Katana environment. The third article is devoted to the implementation of authentication and authorization, and the fourth adds to them the user data model.

Migrating from ASP.NET Web API to MVC 6 — look at Web API Compatibility Shim [En]

Filip Wojcyshin (Filip Wojcieszyn) understands how to migrate an ASP.NET project from Web API 2 to MVC 6 using the additional “Web API” layer of Compatiblity Shim from the ASP.NET team.

Writing from scratch a quest for ASP.NET 5 (vNext) and Angular.js

Article by Viktor Kotsyuban on Habré about the experience of writing a quest on a bunch of new ASP.NET and Angular.JS.

SignalR in a multi-server configuration or clever - Scaleout

Igor Sychev tells how to make SignalR distributed across multiple servers through the use of backplane functionality.

activity

Conference Go # Moscow. ASP.NET Day

February 28 in Moscow will host a conference for developers on ASP.NET. The program includes reports on the future of ASP.NET, cross-platform development on ASP.NET, practical experience in developing complex client-server solutions and other interesting topics.

Microsoft Virtual Academy courses

What's new in ASP.NET 5 [En]

Scott Hanselman, Syed Hashimi, Scott Hunter, Louis DeJardin and Daniel Roth talk about how ASP.NET has changed in the new version. The course includes an overview of the Wep API, development tools (VS), as well as immersion into the interior of ASP.NET and EF7.

Introduction to ASP.NET MVC

Jon Galloway and Christopher Harrison explain how to create and configure the MVC application. The course is designed for developers who are just beginning to use ASP.NET MVC to develop web applications.

Configuring Authentication with ASP.NET Identity [En]

Adam Tuliper and Jeremy Foster tell us how to use ASP.NET Identity to configure access to web applications and services.

How to connect real-time web communications with SignalR [En]

Jon Galloway and Brady Gaster tell you how, step by step, add real-time communication capabilities to your web application.

Video

Russian App Day: ASP.NET 5

Report by Vladimir Yunev at the Russian App Day conference about the new ASP.NET 5.

TechEd Europe'14 Reports

TechEd Europe'14. The future of Microsoft .NET on the server [En]

Scott Hunter talks about transformations in ASP.NET and the .NET Framework, aimed at making the platform open, and application code faster and easier to write, as well as optimized for work in the cloud environment.

Other reports about ASP.NET:

• Latest Innovations for ASP.NET MVC Development [En]
  The story of the new features of ASP.NET MVC and changes at a fundamental level (layer OWIN / Katana).
• ASP.NET Identity [En]
  ASP.NET Identity is a completely rewritten framework that takes the rights system in ASP.NET to the modern level, implying in particular easy integration of third-party authentication systems (including social networks) and two-factor authentication.
• Building Real-Time Applications with ASP.NET SignalR [En]
  A story about using SignalR to create real-time web applications that involve constant communication between a server and connected clients.
• ASP.NET Web API: Beyond the Basics [En]
  The session deals with the subtleties of the ASP.NET Web API: internal architecture, extensibility, asynchronous actions, security, and the implementation of caching and streaming.