Announcing ASP.NET features in Visual Studio 2015 Preview and VS2013 Update 4

By Anze Vodovnik in Development on

Today's Visual Studio Connect() event brought a huge amount of announcements. From open sourcing .NET, delivering an officially supported runtime to Linux & Mac OS X [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2014/11/12/opening-up-visual-studio-and-net-to-every-developer-any-application-net-server-core-open-source-and-cross-platform-visual-studio-community-2013-and-preview-of-visual-studio-2015-and-net-2015.aspx] , [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2014/11/12/opening-up-visual-studio-an…

Running Asp.NET vNext on a Mac

By Anze Vodovnik in Development on

I am preparing for a talk I am about to give very soon (more to follow), and I wanted to demo some of the new features of ASP.NET MVC 6 on a Mac. It took reading instructions on multiple sites to get this to work, so I wanted to…

The Model-View-Controller Pattern

By Anze Vodovnik in Development on

A lot of developers use ASP.NET MVC [http://www.asp.net/mvc/]. But interestingly enough, the pattern behind it, is often a mystery. Why is it called MVC? What does it actually solve? And how does it relate to patterns like MVVM, etc. Let's explore. A pattern is a…

What's in a good team?

By Anze Vodovnik in Business impact on

About a month ago, I left my position as a Senior Software Engineer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering] / Architect. I held that position for about three years. I think these three years were some of the most productive years, in terms of learning, productivity itself, communication skills... While…

Sessionless notification in ASP.NET MVC

By Anze Vodovnik in Development on

When running web applications [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application], you typically want to inform the user of results - success or failure of their actions. This involves failures to login, error messages [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_message], completion results and many other stuff the application needs…