Windows Server 8

Windows Server 8 brings the experience from building and operating public clouds to delivering the most dynamic, available, and cost-effective server platform for the private cloud. It offers businesses and hosting providers a scalable, dynamic, and multitenant-aware cloud infrastructure that securely connects across premises and allows IT to respond to business needs faster and more efficiently.

Server and Tools Business President Satya Nadella introduced Windows Server 8, the new management features, development tools, and new capabilities on the Windows Azure platform that enable a cloud-optimized infrastructure.

• Windows Server 8: An Introduction

• Overview and benefits of Windows Server 8

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LINQ for JavaScript

Well, I believe either you love LINQ or JavaScript; or you are here to learn LINQ and JavaScript. Be happy to know that Linq.js is complete implementation (almost) of LINQ for JavaScript.

See the cool features below:

Features

• implement all .NET 4.0 methods and many extra methods (inspiration from Rx, Achiral, Haskell, Ruby, etc...)
• complete lazy evaluation
• full IntelliSense support for VisualStudio
• two versions - linq.js and jquery.linq.js (jQuery plugin)
• support Windows Script Host
• binding for Reactive Extensions for JavaScript(RxJS) and IntelliSense Generator -> see documentation
• NuGet install support(linq.js, linq.js-jQuery, linq.js-Bindings)

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Get the Most out of WebGrid in ASP.NET MVC

In this article on MSDN Magazine, Stuart Leeks introduces WebGrid and shows how it can be used in ASP.NET MVC 3, then takes a look at how to really get the most out of it in an ASP.NET MVC solution.
This article looks at how to fit the WebGrid component into an ASP.NET MVC environment to enable developers to be more productive while rendering tabular data. Focus is on WebGrid from an ASP.NET MVC aspect:

• creating a strongly typed version of WebGrid with full IntelliSense
• hooking into the WebGrid support for server-side paging
• adding AJAX functionality that degrades gracefully when scripting is disabled

The working samples build on top of a service that provides access to the AdventureWorksLT database via the Entity Framework. If you’re interested in the data-access code, it’s available in the code download, and you might also want to check out Julie Lerman’s article, “Server-Side Paging with the Entity Framework and ASP.NET MVC 3,” in the March 2011 issue(msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/gg650669).

Read the entire article on MSDN

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