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  1. Make Membership framework more useable

    I've tried to use membership several times and its not flexible or usable. How about a simple model that calls evens (OnSignup , OnLogin, OnLoginfailed etc) so that it can pluf into existing applications easily

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    • DDD oriented

      Allow complex project to follow domain driven constraint entity, value object, aggregates....

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      • "Paste JSON as TypScript Class/Interface"

        Add significant TypeScript support if MS is serious about it. A nice start would be "Paste JSON as TypeScript Class/Interface"

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        • Enabling button for directly opening the search engine[Google/Bing] against each error encountered while debugging.

          Whenever we are getting some error[the error types can be classified ] while debugging,VS should provision with a single button named as "Google it" or "Bing it" against the error..so that user can directly click the button and see the results against that error in search engine instead of going to the search engine and type/paste the error and press enter.It will save developer time and improve productivity.

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          • Better error handling

            When trying to handle errors in ASP.NET, you have to jump through a series of unintuitive and often poorly documented hoops to catch an exception and handle it in a sensible way. The non-senisble and default way to handle exceptions would be to redirect to a static HTML file that responds with an HTTP 200 Status Code, which is so wrong it's crazy that it's even available as an option, nonetheless set as the default.

            It's also extremely confusing that IIS and ASP.NET each tries to handle errors on their own way, with their own corresponding, diverging and confusing configuration…

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            • Make everything unit testable / Unit testing Classes in Framework

              I like to unit test a lot of my code, but hate mocking HttpContextBase just do to the horror of using something like Moq. It would be great to have a part of ASP.Net that was dedicated to unit testing and had built it classes that made it super simple to create mocks without heavy setup in my tests.

              Also just make everything virtual in ASP.Net so we can override any public behavior (maybe not as possible).

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              • Russian Doll Caching

                The ability to do Russian Doll Caching like you can in Rails.

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                • Make WebDeploy transactional

                  When deploying a site, the previous version should continue to run. If the deployment fails, the site should continue to run on the previous version. If it succeeds, the switch should happen after publication is complete.

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                  • common and cool controls

                    common and cool controls where it's really easy to use such as http://awesome.codeplex.com and report viewer control for asp.net mvc

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                    • Add the ability to transform Web.Config without rebuilding

                      Allow Web.Config transforms to be applied to a deployment package without a rebuild under a different configuration.
                      QA packages can then be converted to production release packages without fear of introducing any subsequent changes.
                      Add ins exist but would prefer to have built in support

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                        3 comments  ·  General ASP.NET  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

                        Thanks for the suggestion. If I understand you correctly you want to be able to create a single Web Deploy package and then use that to publish to multiple destinations, including executing the web.config transform?

                        We are certainly looking at this scenario. I have created a prototype of what this support might look like. I’d love to get your thoughts on it. I’ve created a 5 minute video. You can take a look at http://sedodream.com/2012/03/14/PackageWebUpdatedAndVideoBelow.aspx.

                      • Possibility to hide XML comments and attributes for classes and methods

                        It's good to add XML comments to methods and classes. Especially for intellisence reasons but while reading a piece of code I think it's waste of screen space. Makes it harder to navigate the code. It would be great if I had the opportunity to have it always collapsed. Maybe with a symbol next to the method where I can hover the comment.

                        Same goes for attributes. I want to see that there are some, but not the details.

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                        • Improve performance on Entity Framework Code-First

                          Code-First can run into some serious performance issues with LazyLoading. I would like to see Code-First (and its lazy loading feature) as a viable option for developing high performance web applications.

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                          • When splitting a conditional statement put the imperative statement before the end condition

                            In VB, if you have the line IF A = B THEN C = D and the line is split after THEN the C=D statement should be contained between the IF and the END IF

                            Desired result:
                            IF A = B THEN
                            C = D
                            END IF

                            Current result VS2012:
                            IF A = B THEN
                            END IF
                            C = D

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                            • angularjs tooling

                              while knockoutjs is a nice databinding library, angularjs is a framework providing ioc and html extensibilty in a way the standart html dom will look alike in future standarts. intellisense support for directives and services would be cool.

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                              • Add a path or pattern to localize javascript; en-us, en-gb, etc...

                                Good or bad, there are times that I have JavaScript that does something to the effect: alert("Invalid Form Fields"). Bad example I know..but I have text scattered throughout my JavaScript files.

                                Where should these be abstracted to? Is there a reall cool pattern or method I don't know about? Resource files that gets rendered as some JavaScript object that contains all strings?

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                                    • Rich tools

                                      Need to have tools that gives interface like an app on tablet. Need something that connects asynchronous to server and give the users a rich experience like an win app or something like that. The 3rd party tools can be adopted to next framework as well.

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                                      • Exclusionary generic argument method modifiers

                                        For example, you could add modifiers specifying that a method only compiles if the generic arguments do not implement iEnumerable

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