Modern Web Development Resources.

Last week I was on an Asp.Net MVC and HTML 5 training course.

Sometimes I find it really useful to take a step back (out of the debugger) and look at how people are developing modern Web applications on the Microsoft Web Platform today.

I’ve compiled this short list of resources that I am finding useful.


Shawn Wildermuth is writing a very interesting series on how he has developed his new site http://firstinked.com/
http://wildermuth.com/2012/1/20/Modern_Web_Development_-_Part_2

MSDN Magazine are launching a new monthly Colum called the Web Development Report written by Rachel Appel who is a Web Developer in DPE in the US.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/hh771055.aspx

http://caniuse.com/ is a great resource to determine the HTML 5, CSS or SVG support in browsers.

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/bb424812-f742-41ef-974a-cdac607df921 is a Browser Switcher for Visual Studio to allow you to debug your application in a variety of browsers.

http://getglimpse.com/ is a useful MVC\Asp.Net 4.0 debugger engine.

The Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Web Standards update will get you HTML 5 and CSS 3 support in VS2010.
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a15c3ce9-f58f-42b7-8668-53f6cdc2cd83

The Visual Studio Web Essentials package is also very useful.
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/6ed4c78f-a23e-49ad-b5fd-369af0c2107f

I’m on a journey this year to understand as much about this as I can and these resources are a great place to start.