30 Tools for Modern .NET Web Development in 60 Minutes (Jonathan Tower)
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Are you a .NET developer interested in crafting high-quality, modern web applications? I've got 30 tools I want to show you in just 60 short minutes. I'll introduce you to these 30 tools that I think will help make your software and life better. Buckle your seat belts and come prepared to jot down some notes on the items that will be the most helpful to you. You might want to reference them later, because we'll be moving fast!
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30 Tools for Modern .NET Web Development in 60 Minutes (Jonathan Tower)
- 1. 30 Tools for Modern .NET Web Development in 60 Minutes J. Tower, Falafel Software
- 2. Premium community conference on Microsoft technologies itcampro@ itcamp14# Huge thanks to our sponsors & partners!
- 3. Hi, I’m J. Tower I’m busy giving a presentation right now, but let’s connect later: [email protected] @jtowermi jtower.com blog.falafel.com/jtower
- 4. Really? 30 Tools in Just 60 Minutes?! Yup. 30 Tools in 7 Categories HTML CSS JavaScript Visual Studio Extensions Debugging Testing Tools Utilities
- 5. 0. ASP.NET MVC! WebForms is to VB.NET as MVC is to C#: MVC pattern better promotes separation of concerns MVC give more control over rendered HTML MVC embraces the stateless nature of HTTP (read: no viewstate) http://www.asp.net/mvc
- 6. HTML The greatest markup language, besides all the others
- 7. 1. HTML5 Boilerplate http://html5boilerplate.com/ It’s a template. You know, for websites.
- 8. 2. (Twitter) Bootstrap http://getbootstrap.com/ A sleek, intuitive, and powerful mobile-first front-end framework for faster and easier web development
- 9. 3. html5shim https://code.google.com/p/html5shim/ HTML5 IE enabling script
- 11. CSS Styling the web since 1996
- 12. 5. LESS and 6. SASS http://lesscss.org/ http://sass-lang.com/ CSS is dead; long live CSS
- 13. JavaScript My favorite language that’s preinstalled in every browser
- 14. 7. JSBin and 8. JSFiddle http://jsbin.com/ http://jsfiddle.net/
- 15. 9. MV* Frameworks AngularJS KnockoutJS Backbone.js Ember.js Kendo UI
- 16. 10. Modularized JavaScipt Self-executing functions RequireJS to the rescue
- 17. 11. JSLint and 12. JSHint http://www.jslint.com/ http://www.jshint.com/ A linter flags suspicious constructs likely to be bugs
- 18. 13. CoffeeScript and 14. TypeScript "CoffeeScript is to Ruby as TypeScript is to Java/C#/C++.“ - Luke Hoban
- 19. 15. Underscore.js (and now Lowdash) Like LINQ? Try Underscore (and Lowdash) var isFound = _(articles).any(function (article) { return article.isRead }; var isFound = articles.Any((article) => { return article.IsRead; });
- 20. 16. Moment.js http://momentjs.com/ Like class DateTime for JavaScript moment().format('MMMM Do YYYY, h:mm:ss a'); moment().format('L'); moment("Dec 25, 1995"); moment("2010 13", "YYYY MM").isValid(); moment.utc(); moment().add('days', 7);
- 21. Visual Studio Extensions Making the greatest IDE greatest-er
- 22. 17. Productivity Power Tools Peek Help Solution Explorer Errors Structure Visualizer Double click to maximize windows Timestamp margin Quick tasks – Edit Present On Ctrl + Click to Peek Definition HTML Copy improvements Recently Closed Documents Match Margin Power Commands context menu cleanup Quick Tasks Power Commands Color printing Middle-Click Scrolling Organize Imports for Visual Basic Custom Document Well Tools Options Support HTML Copy Fix Mixed Tabs Ctrl + Click Go To Definition Align Assignments Column Guides Colorized Parameter Help
- 23. 18. Web Essentials Stylesheets Alphabetize properties Vendor specific property generation Embed url() references as base64 strings Color and font preview on mouse hover Support for regions Brace matching Code collapsing Convert between hex, rgb and named colors JavaScript Support for regions Code collapsing Brace matching Same-word-highlighting Right-click folder to add Much more!
- 24. 19. NuGet http://www.nuget.org/ Package management
- 25. 20. EF Reverse POCO Generator http://efreversepoco.codeplex.com/ Generates POCOs for your context and entity classes from a SQL Server database
- 26. 21. Indent Guides http://indentguide.codeplex.com/
- 27. 22. GhostDoc http://submain.com/GhostDoc/ Automatically generates XML documentation comments for methods and properties
- 29. Debugging The opposite of what I usually do, en-buggening
- 31. 25. Fiddler and 26. Postman http://www.telerik.com/fiddler A free web debugging tool which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet https://github.com/a85/POSTMan-Chrome-Extension A Chrome extension that helps you be more efficient while working with APIs
- 32. Testing I think this trend might catch on
- 33. 27. Visual Studio’s Unit Test Projects You are just one checkbox away from being a better developer: add unit tests! It’s easy—it’s built-in to Visual Studio Start small, build
- 34. Utilities Utilities: always useful…by definition
- 35. 28. smtp4dev http://smtp4dev.codeplex.com/ Dummy SMTP server that sits in the system tray. Does not deliver the received messages, but allows received messages to be viewed, saved and the source/structure inspected
- 37. 30. LinqPad https://www.linqpad.net Well, you don't have to! LINQPad lets you interactively query databases in amodern query language: LINQ. Kiss goodbye to SQL Management Studio!
- 40. Premium community conference on Microsoft technologies itcampro@ itcamp14# Huge thanks to our sponsors & partners!
- 41. Thanks for coming. Any questions? I’m online at these places: [email protected] @jtowermi jtower.com blog.falafel.com/jtower