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Introducing “Web Live Preview”

Tim HeuerJune 11, 2020Jun 11, 202006/11/20

Try out our preview extension for Visual Studio 2019 to enable real-time preview of your web projects and synchronize code without needing to save! Introducing "Web Live Preview" mode in Visual Studio.

Configuring Azure Services and emulators using Visual Studio

Angelos PetropoulosMay 6, 2020May 6, 202005/6/20

Starting with Visual Studio 16.6 Preview 2 the Connected Services tab offers a new experience called Service Dependencies. You can use it to connect your app to Azure services such as Azure SQL, Storage, Key Vault and many others. Wherever possible local emulation options are also available and more are planned for the future. Add a new ...

Changes to the web and JSON editor APIs in Visual Studio 2019

Web Development Tools MicrosoftFebruary 6, 2019Feb 6, 201902/6/19

In Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2, The Web Tools team made some changes to improve extensibility features for extension developers. To standardize interfaces, the CSS, HTML, JSON and CSHTML editors renamed their assemblies - table details inside!

When should you right click publish

Angelos PetropoulosNovember 9, 2018Nov 9, 201811/9/18

Some people say ‘friends don’t let friends right click publish’ but is that true? If they mean that there are great benefits to setting up a CI/CD workflow, that’s true and we will talk more about these benefits in just a minute. First, let’s remind ourselves that the goal isn’t always coming up with the best long-term solution...

ASP.NET Core in Visual Studio for Mac – Help us build the best experience

Sayed-Ibrahim-HashimiSeptember 17, 2018Sep 17, 201809/17/18

We are working to improve the experience for ASP.NET Core developers in Visual Studio for Mac. If you are working on ASP.NET Core apps in Visual Studio for Mac, we would love to hear you feedback. Your feedback is important so that we can help shape the future of ASP.NET Core in Visual Studio for Mac. At the end of the survey, you can leave...

Library Manager Released in 15.8

Justin Clareburt (MSFT)August 31, 2018Aug 31, 201808/31/18

Microsoft Library Manager (LibMan) is now available in the general release of Visual Studio 2017 as of v15.8. LibMan first previewed earlier this year, and now, after a much-anticipated wait, LibMan is available in the stable release of Visual Studio 2017 bundled as a default component in the ASP.NET and web development workload. In the ...

Improvements in Visual Studio 2017 15.8 for web and Azure developers

Jeffrey FritzAugust 15, 2018Aug 15, 201808/15/18

With the release of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 brings improvements for web developers such as custom docker image tags during publish, zip push deployment for Azure functions, managing Azure functions application settings, and enabling Application Insights as part of publishing to Azure App Service. Also learn about managing user secrets in ASP.NET framework projects, optimizing build performance for solutions containing ASP.NET frame as well as author and source information for ASP.NET Core templates.

Razor Improvements – Feedback Wanted

Justin Clareburt (MSFT)July 11, 2018Jul 11, 201807/11/18

Recent releases of Visual Studio 2017 focus greatly on improving the experience of working with Razor. The improvements address the most pressing customer-facing issues like formatting changes and providing general performance and reliability for IntelliSense. Now that the fixes and enhancements are publicly available, we would like to learn more about your experience with the Razor editor.

Workaround for Bower Version Deprecation

Justin Clareburt (MSFT)July 5, 2018Jul 5, 201807/5/18

As of June 25, the version of Bower shipped with Visual Studio was deprecated, resulting in Bower operations failing when run in Visual Studio. If you use Bower, you will see an error something like: EINVRES Request to https://bower.herokuapp.com/packages/bootstrap failed with 502 This will be fixed in Visual Studio 15.8. In the meantime...

Announcing ASP.NET Providers Connected Service Visual Studio Extension

Matt FJHMay 22, 2018May 22, 201805/22/18

Provider pattern was introduced in ASP.NET 2.0 and it gives the developers the flexibility of where to store the state of ASP.NET features (e.g. Session State, Membership, Output Cache etc.). In ASP.NET 4.6.2, we added async support for Session State Provider and Output Cache Provider. These providers provide much better scalability, and ...

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