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November 2013 - Page 2 of 2 - .NET Blog

Azure Web Site now supports WebSockets

November 14, 2013 Nov 14, 2013 11/14/13
Gustavo Armenta Valdez
If you missed the announcement the other day, WebSockets are now supported in Windows Azure Web Sites. Let's try it with a sample SignalR application. Create an Azure Web Site (image) Create a Visual Studio Project associated to an Azure Web Site ...

PCL and .NET NuGet Libraries are now enabled for Xamarin

November 13, 2013 Nov 13, 2013 11/13/13
.NET Team
Earlier today, Soma announced a collaboration between Microsoft and Xamarin. As you probably know, Xamarin’s Visual Studio extension enables developers to use VS and .NET to extend the reach of their apps across multiple devices, including iOS and Android. As part of that collaboration, today, we are announcing two releases around the .NET ...

Office Web Apps are using ASP.NET SignalR to power real-time co-authoring

November 9, 2013 Nov 9, 2013 11/9/13
Xinyang Qiu
Office Web Apps are now using SignalR as the backend to synchronize changes when two or more people are editing files on SkyDrive or on SharePoint Online.  SignalR enables real time communication among different browsers and native mobile apps to communicate with each other through the backend server.  It is flexible, scalable and ...

OData Scaffolding

November 7, 2013 Nov 7, 2013 11/7/13
Kirthi [MSFT]
With the release of Visual Studio 2013 RTM, we added support for scaffolding OData controllers with Entity Framework. In this blog topic we will cover the following topics •    Scaffolding an OData controller with Entity Framework on a Web API 2 project. •    Extra configuration steps required to setup ...

A High-Value, Undocumented LESS Editor Feature in Visual Studio

November 6, 2013 Nov 6, 2013 11/6/13
VKichline
Recently a very valuable, undocumented feature in the Visual Studio LESS editor came to my attention. This applies equally to Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 and later, and to Visual Studio 2013. The installation of Web Essentials is not required to benefit from this feature.The Visual Studio LESS Editor respects @import statements, and can ...

Introducing batch support in Web API and Web API OData

November 1, 2013 Nov 1, 2013 11/1/13
Javier Calvarro Nelson
With the release of Microsoft ASP.NET Web API 2 OData, we have introduced support for batching requests. Batching is a web API feature that allows a customer to pack several API requests and send them to the web API service in one HTTP request and receive a single HTTP response with the response to all their requests. This way, the client can ...