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Browser Link feature in Visual Studio Preview 2013

Browser Link is just a channel between your Visual Studio IDE and any open browser. This will allow dynamic data exchange between your web application and Visual Studio. This feature is enabled by default in Visual Studio 2013 Preview. When Browser Link is enabled we register an HTTPModule with ASP.NET, which will then inject a <script>...

Adding External Logins to your ASP.NET application in Visual Studio 2013

The project templates showcase a way of logging in with external login providers, along with the normal way of logging in by creating a local account This post highlights how you can turn on support for logging through these services in the ASP.NET project templates that shipped with Visual Studio 2013 Preview. To learn more about how ...

HTML Editing Features in Visual Studio 2013 Preview

The Preview Release of Visual Studio 2013 contains a surprising addition: a brand new HTML editor! In fact, VS 2013 contains two HTML editors. The story’s a little complicated, so this article will do its best to simplify the matter. Visual Studio 2012 included a brand new CSS editor, implemented entirely in managed code and highly ...

ASP.NET updates to support Windows Azure Active Directory

Today we released an update to the Visual Studio **2013 Preview **which enables you to create ASP.NET applications which use Windows Azure Active Directory for authentication. In this post I will describe; how you can get the additional support, where to find more info and a list of known issues. How to get the latest support In order to ...