Matthew M. Osborn's Blog

ASP.NET 4.5 Loves HTML5, CSS3, & JavaScript

Matthew M. Osborn — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:22:40 GMT

Today I had the pleasure of giving a presentation at the //BUILD conference in Anaheim, CA. Given that this conference is all about Windows 8 I was one of the few non windows session at the conference. Bellow is the abstract from my talk entitled. For...(read more)

ASP.NET 404 Custom Errors & IIS

Matthew M. Osborn — Fri, 27 May 2011 18:12:43 GMT

Recently I have been spending a fair amount of time working on the NuGet Documentation site (read more about it here ). One of the improvements I wanted to make to it was to add useful error pages. You know more than the YSOD (yellow screen of death)...(read more)

Introducing NuGet Docs: Community Driven Documentation

Matthew M. Osborn — Wed, 11 May 2011 23:18:58 GMT

http://docs.nuget.org Introducing NuGet Docs: http://docs.nuget.org ! NuGet Docs is a community driven documentation site that provides guides, walkthroughs, and information about anything and everything NuGet related. NuGet Docs is your new resource...(read more)

Joining the Dark Side | SDET to SDE

Matthew M. Osborn — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:00:34 GMT

Today I am excited to announce that I have joined the Dark Side and by Dark Side I mean the developer team here at Microsoft. Many of you know that for the past two and half years I have worked on the ASP.NET team as a Software Development Engineer in...(read more)

New and Improved Templates in WebMatrix

Matthew M. Osborn — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:00:39 GMT

With the latest release of WebMatrix and ASP.NET WebPages I am proud to announce that we have been working to clean up the HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and general file and folder structures of the templates that we ship with the product. One of the major objectives...(read more)

Magic Page Names in ASP.NET WebPages

Matthew M. Osborn — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:59:26 GMT

One of the features in ASP.NET WebPages that is super powerful yet super simple is the “magic names” you can give to a page that make that page behave differently. Unfortunately the feature isn’t really called “magic names” (That would be way too cool...(read more)

Using SimpleMembership With ASP.NET WebPages

Matthew M. Osborn — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:42:23 GMT

With the introduction of ASP.NET WebPages and the WebMatrix stack our team has really be focusing on making things simpler for the developer. Based on a lot of customer feedback one of the areas that we wanted to improve was the built in security in ASP...(read more)

Coding QA Teams Up With TekPub

Matthew M. Osborn — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:40:33 GMT

Today is an exciting day for the Coding QA Podcast! I am proud to announce that Coding QA has teamed up with TekPub to give-a-way some licenses for TekPub to our listeners. This has been in the works for some time now and we wanted to find some creative...(read more)

Introduction to WebImage

Matthew M. Osborn — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:57:06 GMT

One common operation that pretty much every website in the world does is either accepting, creating, editing, or displaying images. This could be something as simple as a user’s profile picture or as complex a full blown image gallery. Either way if you...(read more)

Introducing WebMatrix Beta

Matthew M. Osborn — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:56:26 GMT

Over the last year or so I have had the opportunity to help develop and shape a brand new framework that is, as of today, in its first ever public beta. I’d like to introduce you all to WebMatrix! WebMatrix is actually a group of products and frameworks...(read more)

A Year of Coding QA

Matthew M. Osborn — Mon, 17 May 2010 04:15:46 GMT

This is one of those posts where I don’t talk about coding, sorry, but it’s still about technology so hopefully I don't scare you guys off. So what is this I want to talk about, well my podcast of course, Coding QA . Somewhere February last year ...(read more)

How and When to Encode for the Web

Matthew M. Osborn — Wed, 05 May 2010 23:17:13 GMT

One of the more tricky things to learn when you are developing for the web is to know when and how to encode the content your delivering. There are a couple high level reasons as to why you need to encode your content. First is that some characters just...(read more)

Update: How and When to Encode for the Web

Matthew M. Osborn — Wed, 05 May 2010 23:17:13 GMT

One of the more tricky things to learn when you are developing for the web is to know when and how to encode the content you’re delivering. There are a couple high level reasons as to why you need to encode your content. First is that some characters...(read more)

What’s in my laptop bag?

Matthew M. Osborn — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:18:07 GMT

I figured it was time do the obligatory “what’s in my laptop bag” post. If you have been following my twitter stream you might have seen that I just purchased a new MacBook Pro and I figured it was time to get a new laptop bag as well. Previously I had...(read more)

Introducing Browsers Providers in ASP.NET 4

Matthew M. Osborn — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:10:41 GMT

In ASP.NET there is a concept of Browser Capabilities, they define what the device that issued the request to the site is capable of doing. For instance things like “ Supports JavaScript ” and “ Supports Frames ”, they also provide other meta information...(read more)