Announcing preview of Dynamic Data provider and EntityDataSource control for Entity Framework 6

pranav rastogiJanuary 30, 2014Jan 30, 201401/30/14

Today, we are pleased to announce an update to ASP.NET DynamicData and EntityDataSource control, so that they work with Entity Framework 6.
What’s in this preview
– DynamicData provider for Entity Framework 6
– EntityDataSource control for Entity Framework 6
How to install this preview
You can download this preview for ASP.NET DynamicData.EFProvider (http://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.AspNet.DynamicData.EFProvider/) and EntityDataSource (http://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.AspNet.EntityDataSource/) as preview NuGet packages from the NuGet gallery.

Announcing the Release of ASP.NET MVC 5.1, ASP.NET Web API 2.1 and ASP.NET Web Pages 3.1

Daniel RothJanuary 20, 2014Jan 20, 201401/20/14

The NuGet packages for ASP.NET MVC 5.1, ASP.NET Web API 2.1 and ASP.NET Web Pages 3.1 are now live on the NuGet gallery!
Download this release
You can install or update to the released NuGet packages for ASP.NET MVC 5.1, ASP.NET Web API 2.1 and ASP.NET Web Pages 3.1 using the NuGet Package Manager Console,

Some notes on using Organizational Auth with ASP.NET

Sayed-Ibrahim-HashimiJanuary 15, 2014Jan 15, 201401/15/14

In Visual Studio 2013 we shipped support for creating new ASP.NET projects which use Windows Azure Active Directory for Organizational Authentication. Vittorio Bertocci has recently written a great blog post Setting Up an ASP.NET Project with Organizational Authentication Requires an Organizational Account.

Announcing E-book version of Scott Guthrie’s “Building Real-World Cloud Apps with Windows Azure”

Tom Dykstra - MSFTJanuary 13, 2014Jan 13, 201401/13/14

We have published online and downloadable e-book versions of Scott Guthrie’s presentation titled Building Real-World Cloud Apps with Windows Azure (original video version is available here: part 1, part 2).
Along with the e-book we published the code for the Fix It application that Scott developed to demonstrate many of the recommended cloud development patterns.