Scott Hanselman discusses NancyFx, an open source lightweight and flexible framework for web sites and services that uses the Ruby Framework "Sinatra" as its inspiration.

Scott Guthrie announces the release of WebMatrix 3. This release makes it really easy to move to the cloud, with deep Windows Azure integration, source control tooling for Git and TFS, and a new re...

Stephen Walther announces the April 2013 release of the Ajax Control Toolkit, which includes extensive improvements of the AjaxFileUpload and the MaskedEdit controls.

Try Windows Azure and learn how to build a distributed n-tier cloud-based data-driven web application hosted on multiple virtual machines through 5 programming challenges, while competing for prize...

Scott Guthrie announces the release of the v2.0 update of the Windows Azure SDK for .NET. This is a major refresh of the Windows Azure SDK with some really great new features and enhancements, incl...

All sessions from the free dotnetConf virtual conference are now available online, also for free. Learn how to leverage the .NET Framework to develop solutions for the web, mobile, desktop, and the...

Tom Dykstra presents a list of resources that explain how to deploy an ASP.NET web application to Windows Azure Web Sites, using Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Studio 2012 to publish online.

This new tutorial shows how to create a SignalR application that sends high-frequency messages between clients and servers.

The ASP.NET SignalR 1.1 Beta release includes performance improvements, plus a new scaleout provider infrastructure and providers for Redis, Sql Server, and Azure Service Bus.

This new article describes which clients and servers are supported by SignalR.

In this new tutorial, Tom Dykstra shows how to create a web application that uses ASP.NET SignalR to provide server broadcast functionality.

In this new ASP.NET tutorial, Tim Teebken shows how to use ASP.NET SignalR to create a real-time chat application. You will add SignalR to an MVC 4 application and create a chat view to send and di...

In this new tutorial, Mike Wasson explains the ASP.NET Web API library that allows you to auto-generate help pages at run time.

Soma Somasegar announces the release of Visual Studio 2012 Update 2.

Three of Microsoft's most seasoned ASP.NET speakers, Scott Hanselman, Jon Galloway, and Damian Edwards provide an accelerated introduction to building modern web applications with ASP.NET 4.5 and A...