Announcements

Announcing ASP.NET features in Visual Studio 2015 Preview and VS2013 Update 4

Xinyang Qiu November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14

Today we released both Visual Studio 2015 Preview and VS2013 Update 4. The ASP.NET team provided many new features and updates to both the runtime and tooling in Visual Studio 2015 Preview, including: ASP.NET 5 Preview runtime This release of Visual Studio supports creating and developing ASP.NET 5 Preview applications. ASP.NET 5 ...

Where can you meet the team? November 2014 at AngleBrackets and Connect();

Xinyang Qiu November 7, 2014 Nov 7, 2014 11/7/14

We’ve got two big events coming up next week. AngleBracketsNov 10th-13th in Vegas is an exciting open-source web conference that’s collocated with DevIntersections. That means you can register for one and attend both! Come see Scotts Hanselman and Scott Guthrie, along with web tooling PM Mads Kristensen and Mohit Srivastava ,&...

Announcing new Web Features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 RC

Xinyang Qiu October 16, 2014 Oct 16, 2014 10/16/14

Today, the Visual Studio team announced the release of Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 RC. Our team added a few useful features and did some bug fixing in this update to improve the web development experience. Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.4 RC JSON Editor Improvement We made a few improvements in the JSON editor, including ...

Announcing Microsoft.ASPNET.Facebook 1.1 RTM

Kirthi [MSFT] October 10, 2014 Oct 10, 2014 10/10/14

The NuGet packages for Microsoft.ASPNET.Facebook 1.1 are now live on the NuGet gallery!Download this releaseYou can install or update the NuGet packages for Microsoft.ASPNET.Facebook 1.1 using the NuGet Package Manager Console, like this: What’s in this release?In this release, we enabled better support for the Safari browser and ...

Where can you meet the team? November 2014 at AngleBrackets and TechEd

Xinyang Qiu October 7, 2014 Oct 7, 2014 10/7/14

We on the Web Tools team love hanging out with the community. We thought it would be cool to start sharing exactly where we will be and what conferences or user groups you can join us at!The .NET Developer Blog has a great always updated list of .NET User Groups, so be sure to bookmark that also!We’ve got two big events coming up soon, ...

ASP.NET vNext in Visual Studio “14” CTP 4

Xinyang Qiu October 6, 2014 Oct 6, 2014 10/6/14

Today we released updates for ASP.NET vNext in Visual Studio “14” CTP 4. This release includes the ASP.NET vNext runtime and tooling improvements as outlined below. ASP.NET vNext Runtime This CTP includes our alpha4 runtime packages for ASP.NET vNext. You can find details on the specific enhancements added and issues fixed in the ...

The Ajax Control Toolkit are now maintained by DevExpress

Xinyang Qiu September 30, 2014 Sep 30, 2014 09/30/14

The open sourced Ajax Control Toolkit now has a new owner: DevExpress. This project was created on codeplex in 2007 and our team has been sponsoring its development ever since. It has been downloaded millions of times and played an important role in the field. The ASP.NET team knows that many people use the ASP.NET Ajax ...

Announcing the Release of Web API OData 5.3

Andrew Zhou from Microsoft September 11, 2014 Sep 11, 2014 09/11/14

The NuGet packages for ASP.NET Web API OData 5.3 are now live on the NuGet gallery!Download this releaseYou can install or update the NuGet packages for ASP.NET Web API OData 5.3 using the NuGet Package Manager Console, like this: What’s in this release?This release primarily includes great new features for Web API OData v4 as ...

Farewell, EnableViewStateMac!

levibroderick September 9, 2014 Sep 9, 2014 09/9/14

The ASP.NET team is making an important announcement regarding the September 2014 security updates. All versions of the ASP.NET runtime 1.1 - 4.5.2 now forbid setting <%@ Page EnableViewStateMac="false" %> and <pages enableViewStateMac="false" />. If you have set EnableViewStateMac="false" anywhere in your application, your ...

Command line scaffolding for ASP.NET vNext

Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi August 21, 2014 Aug 21, 2014 08/21/14

In previous releases we have added support for scaffolding controllers/views based on project artifacts in both MVC and Web Forms projects. The technology used for those previous releases was tied to Visual Studio. With ASP.NET vNext one of our high level goals is to enable Visual Studio customers to work with non-Visual Studio users. So the ...

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