Microsoft announced ASP.NET MVC,web API and Razor as Open Source

I have read today scottgu's blog entry about announcement of release the source code of ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and Razor under an open source license (Apache 2.0).
Now you can download source code from codeplex and if you want contribute in that then you can do it there.
Hope that making it open source will improve ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and Razor to better level because now it is open to every people. (Power of Open Source!)

Read more about this

• ScottHanselman : ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages v2 (Razor) now all open source with contributions 
• http://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com
• http://asp.net/open-source
  

Have you checked Meta Tags of your website or blog?

If you are running your blog or website then it is important to know about Meta Tags.

Meta Tags provide information of your website/blog to search engine like google, bing, yahoo for how to display your website or blog to their search engine.

look at this link what is Meta tags? by W3schools.

Let's take case study of my blog, before putting meta data my blog display in google search result as per below.



then i came across google webmaster link about meta data they are using for crawling and add some of Meta tags for my blog and after one day google has change descrption as per my meta data as per below. (you can type my name "arun rana" to google to see in live)



You can also control of your web pages from displaying in google search by below meta tag.
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex,nofollow">

After putting Meta data if you want to test your site/blog for meta data then there is very good tool available online  called Meta Tag Analyzer which will give you very deep research and review of meta data.

Useful Reading about Meta Tags

• Wikipedia - Meta tag
• How To Use HTML Meta Tags

Google can tell you that what the world want? Really!

I was so boring in night yesterday and playing with Google and found some interesting queries you want to google it! it can really tell you what is people requirement all over the world (you can make profit if you are businessman!)

Just open Google try to type following queries

Microsoft has released Visual-Studio 2011 beta and Window 8 Consumer preview

Microsoft has released 2 great new version of it's products which includes visual stuido 2011 beta which is development environment (IDE) for .net programmer and new version of OS Window8-consumer preview.

Visual Studio 2011 Beta

Jason Zander has first announced regarding release of Visual Studio 11 Beta & .NET 4.5 Beta on his blog post.
Download it from here + Download Visual Studio 2011 Beta 

This time Visual Studio lunched with totally new look combine with many new feathers as below.

•     Project Compatibility
•     IDE Productivity Improvements
•     Search Everywhere
•     Toolbar Improvements
•     Additional Tooling
•     Multiple-Monitor Support
•     Performance Enhancements
•     New Project Types
•     Extensibility    

You can read each & every fether on Visual studio magazine's post about "Inside Visual Studio 11: A Guided Tour".

Scott Hanselman has also written about overview of features available with Visual Studio 2011 beta in his blog post.

Window-8 Consumer Preview

Steven Sinofsky has first made announcement on his blog post of  "Windows 8 – The Consumer Preview" availability for download.if you are in hurry to look inside it then visit this and starting now at http://preview.windows.com.

Read this guidelines before installation

• How To Guide to Installing and Booting Windows 8 Consumer Preview off a VHD by Scott Hanselman
• Windows 8 Installation Guides by Amit Agrawal.

There are lots of post (i think many people rushed out to write about that to be a first blogger to write on this topic!) available on internet about Window 8 features so i don't want to talk about it here.
just google it - Window 8 features :)

ASP.NET Web API - Great collection of learning resources

ASP.NET team launched MVC4 Beta with new asp.net web API template and all .net peoples looking for good resources to learn more about that and build application on that.

I was also searching for that and found good links here with all tutorials, videos and samples.

Tugberk Ugurlu lists a bunch of great resources for getting started with ASP.NET Web API in his blog post, follow below link.

• Getting Started With ASP.NET Web API - Tutorials, Videos, Samples