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Getting started with ASP.NET Web API OData in 3 simple steps

January 29, 2013 Jan 29, 2013 01/29/13

Youssef Moussaoui - MSFT

With the upcoming ASP.NET 2012.2 release, we’ll be adding support for OData to Web API. In this blog post, I’ll go over the three simple steps you’ll need to go through to get your first OData service up and running: Before we dive in, the code snippets in this post won’t work if you’re using the RC build. You can ...

ASP.NET MVC, Data Access, and Deployment Content Maps Published

January 25, 2013 Jan 25, 2013 01/25/13

Tom Dykstra - MSFT

We are pleased to announce the publication on the ASP.NET site of three guides to ASP.NET documentation resources: The content maps provide links to good quality up-to-date tutorials, articles, blogs, videos, and forum and StackOverflow threads. The guides exist on MSDN, but we’re publishing updated versions on the ASP.NET ...

XDT (web.config) transform engine released on NuGet

January 10, 2013 Jan 10, 2013 01/10/13

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi

We have just released the XDT transform engine on NuGet, with a license which allows you to redistribute the assembly with your own product. . If you are not familiar with XDT it is a XML transformation engine which drives our web.config transforms in Visual Studio. You can read more about XDT at here. You can now take a dependency on XDT and ...

Dual Mode Sockets – Never create an IPv4 Socket again

January 8, 2013 Jan 8, 2013 01/8/13

Chris R

The Problem:If you’ve worked with network programing in recent years you’ve probably had to grapple with the IPv4 vs. IPv6 issue at some point.  In short, IPv6 is a great new technology for the future of networking, but most applications will still have to support IPv4 for several years during the transition. Working at ...