Previously in part 1, I introduced JSON-based configuration files inside ASP.NET Core Web Applications. In this post, I will go over the role of global.json config file in determining which .NET SDK version to use when executing .NET Core applications.

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In this blog post, I will create a new ASP.NET Core web app using the Visual Studio 2015 (Update 3) Empty Project Template, and introduce basic workflow for ASP.NET developers to get it up and running.

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ASP.NET vNext Blog Post Series ASP.NET vNext was announced at TechEd 2014, and I have been playing around with it a bit. ASP.NET vNext is an exciting and revolutionary change for the Microsoft .NET development platform. ASP.NET vNext is now open-source, and available on Github at this location: https://github.com/aspnet/H... I want to start a blog ......

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My Color Theme for Notepad++ I really like the color theme from the Adobe Source Code Pro font announcement for HTML and XML as well as the beautiful Source Code Pro font for coding. Then, I read this Programming Fonts comparison and really like the color theme for C# in the screenshots.My favorite text editor is Notepad++ on Windows when I don't feel ......

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I like these jQuery methods a lot: addClass, removeClass, toggleClass.I wish ASP.NET Web Controls have similar functionality out of the box like jQuery for manipulating CSS class like below. // You MUST include your own namespace here // in order for the Extension Methods to be visible in your code. using YourProjectNamespace.Extens... textBoxControl.AddCssClass(... ......

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This blog post is based on the information I found from this blog post http://geekswithblogs.net/w... I find it very difficult and tedious to manually format the sample code snippets when writing blog posts on GWB.net since it doesn't have a good built-in syntax highlighting support. The built-in ......

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Thanks to everyone who attended my Intro to F# presentation at the Cap Area Cloud Computing User Group meeting on May 19th 2011. I apologize for the slight delay in getting the presentation materials uploaded. In the Demo project source code, I have included both Normal and Async source samples. It will make it easier to understand what code changes ......

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Thanks to everyone who attended my session at Philly Code Camp 2011.1. It was a very fun and interactive session for me, and I hope it was an informative and helpful session for you as well. I apologize for the delay in getting the presentation materials uploaded since I was busy catching up with work from last week this morning. The Database backup ......

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When we were working with ASP.NET MVC 2, we needed to write our own JavaScript to get Client-Side Validation Summary with jQuery Validation plugin. I am one of those unfortunate people still stuck with .NET Framework Runtime 2.0 and .NET Framework 3.5; meaning I am still on ASP.NET MVC 2. So I will still keep on supporting by answering any question ......

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Thank you to everyone who attended my Retrofit WebForms with ASP.NET MVC session at NoVa Code 2010.2. It was a fun event for me and I hope you had a great time and learned something from it. I wish I had more time to go over some more important topics in more detail. I *promise* I will be writing blog post series about it since I'll have some vacation ......

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