to start with Visual Studio 2013

i strongly recommend to watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa9Tvr9yiQs prior to development with Visual Studio 2013.

a good eclipse - visual studio comparison article

Here is an article which compares Eclipse and Visual Studio: http://jmonkeycoder.wordpress.com/2013/08/28/eclipse-vs-visual-studio/
totally agree :)

windows authentication in IISExpress

When i migrated from Visual Studio 2012 to 2013, HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name started to return an empty string . To overcome this, i had to turn on Windows authentication and turn off anonymous authentication in applicationhost.config file and restart Visual Studio 2013. (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4762538/iis-express-windows-authentication)
By the way, the project properties are as follows:

for tomorrow s mvc training..

Here is an article for tomorrow s mvc training: http://umbraco.com/follow-us/blog-archive/2013/7/14/moving-from-webforms-to-mvc.aspx

and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj991978.aspx

an interesting article

here is an interesting article: http://tech.pro/blog/1498/why-the-n-layer-approach-is-bad-for-us-all