Mads Kristensen

A blog about everything technology.
3 min read asp.net

Earlier this week I wrote about some experiments I was doing with Service Workers in ASP.NET Core. This is an update to that. So, what is a Progressive Web App (PWA)? A Progressive Web App uses modern web capabilities to...

2 min read asp.net

Update : The information in the blog post is outdated. Instead check out Progressive Web Apps made easy with ASP.NET Core . What if you could make your ASP.NET Core web app faster to load and work offline without...

5 min read asp.net

MiniBlog.Core is a new and powerful blog platform built on ASP.NET Core 2.0 and provides an excellent reading experience across devices. It achieves that through following the latest best practices for web development...

9 min read ASP.NET , Visual Studio

Last October I wrote about my road to Visual Studio 2013 which was one big diary entry for an entire year in my professional life. This is such an incredible time to be working on the Visual Studio Web Tools Team and I’m...

2 min read ASP.NET , Tips and tricks

HTML5 and CSS3 introduces some new file types that enables us to create even better websites. We are now able to embed video, audio and custom fonts natively to any web page. Some of these file types are relatively new...

4 min read ASP.NET , Visual Studio

This year at the //build/ conference I gave a session on Visual Studio Web Tools and Web Essentials. It’s now online on Channel 9 in case you want to watch it. I was using a few extensions that are great for any web...

3 min read ASP.NET , Tips and tricks

Optimizing for website performance includes setting long expiration dates on our static resources, such s images, stylesheets and JavaScript files. Doing that tells the browser to cache our files so it doesn’t have to...

2 min read ASP.NET , Server-side , Tips and tricks

What's the address of your website? www .domain.com or domain.com? There are two camps on the subject of the www subdomain. One believe it should be enforced ( www.yes-www.org ) and the other ( no-www.org ) that it...

2 min read ASP.NET , Tips and tricks

I recently upgraded MiniBlog from using WebPages/Razor 2 to version 3. The upgrade was completely painless. I just upgraded the NuGet package and it didn't even touch my web.config. Thumbs up to the Razor team for that!...

1 min read Web Essentials , ASP.NET

Today the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 update was released. Go download it right now ! It contains a lot of new and updated Visual Studio tooling features including: First class LESS editor Knockout.js Intellisense Paste...