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Don Kiely

Don Kiely, MVP, MSCD, is a senior technology consultant specializing in developing secure desktop and Web applications that integrate databases and related technologies. When he isn’t writing software, he’s writing and speaking about it.

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ASP.NET WebHooks Reaches Release Candidate Stage
ASP.NET WebHooks Reaches Release Candidate Stage
Mar 10, 2016
While one part of Microsoft is taken over by the re-reboot of ASP.NET Core 1.0--formerly known as ASP.NET 5--there is a lot of activity in the rest of the development tools division of the company. One benefit of...
Reigning in Microsoft's Windows 10 Fetish
Reigning in Microsoft's Windows 10 Fetish
Feb 10, 2016
In the latter part of 2015, here on DevProConnections I wrote a mildly tongue-in-cheek open letter to Microsoft about their over-the-top efforts to move the world to Windows 10: Broken Trust with Windows Update. I had...
Introducing ASP.NET WebHooks
Oct 05, 2015
The ASP.NET Web API has proven to be a vital part of Web applications since Microsoft introduced it in ASP.NET 4.0 back in 2012. It will receive a major overhaul in ASP.NET 5, when it will merge wtih ASP.NET MVC to...
Tag Helpers in ASP.NET 5
Aug 31, 2015
If you’re an ASP.NET developer, you’re probably looking forward to the release of ASP.NET 5 early next year with a mix of unbridled excitement and dread: Excitement because Microsoft is finally...
Microsoft is Rebooting the Web Development World?
Microsoft is Rebooting the Web Development World?
Aug 02, 2015
As expected, last week’s release of Visual Studio 2015 was full of big news and releases for developers in the Microsoft world. It’s always exciting to get shiny new things to play with, particularly when they promise...
ASP.NET Everywhere?
Jun 30, 2015
As I write this in late June 2015, we are approaching some exciting times in the long history of Microsoft. Windows 10 will appear globally on desktops and devices at the end of July, and Microsoft just announced that...
Entity Framework Poised to Come of Age
Entity Framework Poised to Come of Age
Jun 04, 2015
If you’re a .NET developer of any type and have been reading DevProConnections for a while--or just paying attention--you know that the next version of .NET and Visual Studio will bring some dramatic...
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