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ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 Now Available

The world of Web development is changing rapidly. To take care of, Microsoft was making incremental changes to ASP.NET. The most recent update to the framework brings changes and additions to each member of the ASP.NET family.

Micrososft recently released ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 to the overall coding public. The discharge contains new templates and tooling ASP.NET Web Forms, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API and the remainder of the ASP.NET family. Microsoft prepare a bit video to head over what’s within the latest release:

If you don’t like watching informative videos, here’s a fast rundown of the recent features on this latest release. First, Web Forms got a a brand new FriendlyURL package that adds the next benefits:

  • It automatically maps URLs to ASPX pages
  • It automatically passes route values to controls with a pleasing bindable syntax

    • The ASP.NET Web API gets the ensuing three new features:

  • Automatic Help Page generation.
  • Tracing Everything within the pipeline is output to the System.Diagnostics.Trace, so that you can read it within the Visual Studio output window in addition any registered Trace Listener.
  • OData A whole lot new stuff here, including routing and query validation

    • ASP.NET MVC gets about a new templates and here three features:

  • The Facebook template makes it easy to create full Facebook apps. Your users log in on Facebook, approve your requests to access their Facebook content, after which your app can interact with their social graph.
  • There’s a light-weight Single Page Application template in line with Knockout.js and ASP.NET Web API.
  • We’ve made it possible to create new ASP.NET MVC templates using a visible Studio extension (VSIX). Expect to determine so much more templates from us and others locally!

    • As for Web Tools, here’s one of the highlights that you simply’ll see in practice within the above video:

  • Page Inspector now has live sync, so once you update CSS you’ll see it update immediately.
  • There’s IntelliSense support for Knockout bindings, CoffeeScript, and more.
  • The integrated publishing includes single file publish and compare. Which means that you could edit a single file and push it out, or maybe compare your local changes against the live production version.

    • You can grab this latest release of ASP.NET and any future release over on the official Web page.