Tag Helpers were introduced in ASP.NET MVC 6, and one the tag helper is Select tag helper. Select tag helper is used to generate dropdown list and it’s an alternative for Html.DropDownList. In this post, we will see how to use select tag helper and how to bind select tag helper to model data or enum values. Also read How to use image tag helper in ASP.NET Core MVC 1.0
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ASP.NET 5 is now ASP.NET Core 1.0
Last week Microsoft announced that ASP.NET 5.0 has been renamed to ASP.NET Core 1.0. And it’s a welcome change and quite needed to address the confusion. As ASP.NET 5 is completely a new platform to build cross platform applications and it was written from scrath. The latest version of ASP.NET is 4.6 and It is possible to run ASP.NET 5 on top of the full .NET 4.6 Framework/platform or to run ASP.NET 5 on .NET Core.
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How to fix “dnx project start up error in VS 2015”
While working with ASP.NET 5 application using Visual Studio 2015, you may encounter an dnx project start up error in VS 2015 when you try to open a project. The error message says “The following error occurred attempting to run the DNX design time process (dnx-clr-win-x86.1.0.0-rc1-update1). No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it [::ffff:127.0.0.1]:63106”.
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What’s coming in ASP.NET 5 RC 2
ASP.NET 5 RC 2 is scheduled for release in Feb 2016, after ASP.NET RC 1 released in Nov 2015. And this will be the last release before the final release. Go ahead and read Quick summary of what’s changed in ASP.NET 5 before you go further. In this quick post, let’s find out what’s coming in ASP.NET 5 RC 2 release.
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TypeScript Interview Questions for beginners
Previously I posted about Grunt and Gulp interview questions and in this post, find list of latest and updated TypeScript interview questions and their answers for freshers as well as experienced users. These interview questions will help you to prepare for the interviews, for quick revision and provide strength to your technical skills.
Without JavaScript, web development can’t be imagined. Though JavaScript has issues but it is universally supported by all browsers. And present time is an era of new client side frameworks or technologies (AngularJs, Gulp, Grunt, Yeoman etc.) for better user experience and web development. TypeScript is another player and is becoming popular as it lets you write JavaScript the way you really want to and addresses JavaScript issues.
Quick summary of what’s changed in ASP.NET Core
It’s been quite a while since ASP.NET Core is released. And ASP.NET Core is completely different from its previous version. In fact, it completely re-written to make it fast, better, modular, cross-platform support. So here is quick and short summary of what’s changed in ASP.NET Core compared to all its previous versions.
What is launchsetting.json in ASP.NET Core
I already posted about various json files with ASP.NET Core and a detailed article about project.json file. I briefly also mentioned about launchsetting.json in asp.net 5 ASP.NET Core in my post, but in this post let’s deep dive into it’s each section and understand it. BTW ASP.NET 5 is now ASP.NET Core 1.0.
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