Areas - ASP.NET MVC Demystified

Let's use Areas to create semi-independent sections of our ASP.NET MVC applications!

Debugger Windows in Visual Studio 2015 Quick Guide

Debugging is a critical skill that every programmer needs to become better at their jobs. Visual Studio provides several windows that help make debugging easier, but until now I hadn't really used them all that often. Well, in the spirit of not caring that I suck as long as I'm

Using the _ViewImports.cshtml File to Set Up View Namespaces in MVC 6

As of Beta 5 of ASP.NET 5, there is a new file in the Views folder of an MVC project called _ViewImports.cshtml (here's the GitHub item [https://github.com/aspnet/Announcements/issues/27]). In previous Beta versions, this file was called _GlobalImport.cshtml; even though it has been

Finding and Using ASP.NET Session in Core 1.0

I'm building a tutorial (hopefully soon to be a post) and in that tutorial I needed to use Session for some quick-and-dirty data storage. Unfortunately when I tried to use Session in my default project, it was nowhere to be found, and I was sent down a small rabbit hole

The Startup.cs File in ASP.NET Core 1.0 - What Does It Do?

I'm working on a presentation for my day job on ASP.NET 5 ASP.NET Core 1.0 [http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ASPNET5IsDeadIntroducingASPNETCore10AndNETCore10.aspx] and its new features, as most of my coworkers haven't been exposed to it yet. Part of this process is to demo the new features