An open source web framework for building modern web apps and services with .NET.
August 30, 2012Aug 30, 201208/30/12
You can now get full symbols and source along with the nightly NuGet packages making it possible to debug the latest MVC, Web API, and Web Pages bits by tracing directly through the source. This is enabled by SymbolSource, which hosts the symbols and source for the nightly NuGet packages,
August 26, 2012Aug 26, 201208/26/12
Here is a list of the Web API and HttpClient samples you can find in our samples repository on aspnet.codeplex.com. They illustrate various features of Web API and HttpClient targeting either Visual Studio 2010 using .NET 4 or Visual Studio 2012 using .NET 4.5 with async/await language support.
August 26, 2012Aug 26, 201208/26/12
Here is a list of the Web API and HttpClient samples you can find in our samples repository on aspnet.codeplex.com. They illustrate various features of Web API and HttpClient targeting either Visual Studio 2010 using .NET 4 or Visual Studio 2012 using .NET 4.5 with async/await language support.
August 24, 2012Aug 24, 201208/24/12
In the last post I showed how you can plug in your own OAuth/OpenID provider. This post shows you how you can pass in extra data about the provider such as display name, image etc and use this information when building up the UI for login screen
August 24, 2012Aug 24, 201208/24/12
As you might know, NuGet has been having some performance (and timeout) related issues recently. Earlier this week, we completed a deployment that helped, but it didn’t address everything.
Many users are still seeing slow responses or even timeouts when trying to use the ‘Manage NuGet Packages’
August 23, 2012Aug 23, 201208/23/12
In the previous post, I wrote about how you can use the existing providers for Google, Facebook etc. and retrieve extra metadata about the authenticated users. Let’s assume you wanted to change the way the providers request for information. Some examples of this could be
You want to request more data about the user
You want to apply different scope levels when requesting the data
This post covers how you can write your own provider and plug it into your ASP.NET web application
Write your own provider
Each Provider implements from OpenIdClient.
August 23, 2012Aug 23, 201208/23/12
In the previous post, I wrote about how you can use the existing providers for Google, Facebook etc. and retrieve extra metadata about the authenticated users. Let’s assume you wanted to change the way the providers request for information. Some examples of this could be
You want to request more data about the user
You want to apply different scope levels when requesting the data
This post covers how you can write your own provider and plug it into your ASP.NET web application
Write your own provider
Each Provider implements from OpenIdClient.
August 22, 2012Aug 22, 201208/22/12
Since August 16th, and especially since August 21st, the NuGet Gallery has been exhbiting intermittent performance issues. Some users are reporting errors when attempting to browse or search for NuGet packages from Visual Studio or other clients. Many users are reporting that browsing and searching are slow.
August 22, 2012Aug 22, 201208/22/12
Today I saw the following question on StackOverflow MSDeploy – Deploying Contents of a Folder to a Remote IIS Server and decided to write this post to answer the question.
Web Deploy (aka MSDeploy) uses a provider model and there are a good number of providers available out of the box.
August 22, 2012Aug 22, 201208/22/12
When you authenticate a user using the OAuth/OpenId providers, you can request for some extra information about the user if you have granted access for these providers to send this information.
For eg if you login using Facebook, you can request information such as Gender,
