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ASP.NET MVC 4 Overview
This document provides an overview of new features in ASP.NET MVC 4, including new project templates, support for DotNetOpenAuth for external authentication, bundling and minification for performance improvements, device-based filtering for responsive design, mobile enhancements, asynchronous controller support, and the new ASP.NET Web API framework. It also previews upcoming features planned for the fall 2012 update such as SignalR, Windows Azure Active Directory integration, and the Web Optimization framework.
ASP.NET MVC 4 Overview
- 1. ASP.NET MVC 4Overview 23.10.2012 Gunnar Peipman
- 2. About me • Name:Gunnar Peipman • From: Tallinn, Estonia • MVP: ASP.NET, 5 years • Job: developer, architect, consultant • Community: speaker, blogger • Hobbies: new tech, beers, heavy metal, national cuisines travelling
- 3. Agenda • New projecttemplates • Support for DotNetOpenAuth • Bundling and minification • Device based filtering • Mobile enhancements • Task support for async controllers • ASP.NET Web API • What is coming next?
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- 5. Available templates • Empty •Basic • Internet application • Intranet application • Mobile application • Web API • Single Page Application
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- 7. What is DotNetOpenAuth •Library that supports different external authentication systems • Supported: – Twitter – Live ID – Google Accounts – Facebook – All othet OAuth providers • Now ships with ASP.NET MVC
- 8. How it isused in MVC? • Coming with internet application template • Switched off by default • Easy to enable and use • Users can log in through external systems • Users can join their different accounts on your application level
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- 11. Why bundling andminification? • Bundling: files of same time are concatenated • More than one group of files is supported • Saves some requests to web server • Minificaton: making script and css files smaller • Whitespace is removed • For JS it is possible to use short names of vars • Saves some bandwidth • For user: page loads faster
- 12. Demo: Bundling andminification
- 13. Results Files Size No optimizations21 750KB Bundling and minification 10 337KB 52% 55%
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- 15. New mobile sites •Built on jQuery mobile • Support bundling and minification • Can use device based views • Can use CSS media queries • Support Viewport meta tag
- 16. Demo: Mobile sitein action
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- 18. Era of multipledevices
- 19. What are challences? •Different screen sizes • Support for touch/multi-touch • Different technical platforms
- 20. Device based filtering •ASP.NET MVC detects devices automatically • If there is view for device then it is used automatically • Device settings can be overridden in code
- 21. Demo: Device basedfiltering
- 22. Task support forasync controllers
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- 24. What is WebAPI? • Simple and lightweight framework extension to write Web 2.0 API-s • Uses ASP.NET MVC framework • Makes use of HTTP standard command • Supports content negotiation • Supports self-hosting
- 25. Web API andWCF • Web API: – is quick and simple service layer – is scaled with web application – perfect fit for modern public web apps and their API-s • WCF: – is powerful enterprise-class service framework – scales differently than web application – supports complex components like workflows
- 26. Demo: Web APIcontrollers
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- 28. Planned for Fall2012 Update • SignalR • Support for Windows Azure Active Directory • Web API – OData, tracing, help page generation • Single Page Application • Project template for Facebook applications • Web optimization framework update • NuGet update • Providers system update
- 29. Thank you foryour attention.
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