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Introducing “Web Live Preview”

Tim Heuer June 11, 2020 Jun 11, 2020 06/11/20

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.

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

Web Development Tools Microsoft February 6, 2019 Feb 6, 2019 02/6/19

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 Petropoulos November 9, 2018 Nov 9, 2018 11/9/18

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...

The future of ASP.NET SignalR

Andrew Stanton-Nurse September 17, 2018 Sep 17, 2018 09/17/18

In ASP.NET Core 2.1, we brought SignalR into the ASP.NET Core family. Many of our users have asked what this means for the previous version of SignalR: ASP.NET SignalR. As a reminder, ASP.NET SignalR is represented by the NuGet package Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR and runs on applications using .NET Framework and System.Web. ASP.NET Core SignalR ...

ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview2 now available

Sourabh Shirhatti [MSFT] September 12, 2018 Sep 12, 2018 09/12/18

Today we’re very happy to announce that the second preview of the next minor release of ASP.NET Core and .NET Core is now available for you to try out. We’ve been working hard on this release over the past months, along with many folks from the community, and it’s now ready for a wider audience to try it out and provide the feedback that...

ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview1: SignalR Java Client

Sourabh Shirhatti [MSFT] August 23, 2018 Aug 23, 2018 08/23/18

This post was authored by Mikael Mengistu. In ASP.NET Core 2.2 we are introducing a Java Client for SignalR. The first preview of this new client is available now. This client supports connecting to an ASP.NET Core SignalR Server from Java code, including Android apps. The API for the Java client is very similar to that of the already ...

Workaround for Bower Version Deprecation

Justin Clareburt (MSFT) July 5, 2018 Jul 5, 2018 07/5/18

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...

Building accessible websites just got a lot easier

Mads Kristensen May 2, 2016 May 2, 2016 05/2/16

When building websites it is important that it is accessible for everyone that needs to use it. Implementing web accessibility features greatly helps to achieve that. Here’s what the W3C has to say about that: Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can use the Web. More specifically, Web accessibility means that people with ...

Azure App Service Tools Updates in the Azure SDK for .NET 2.9

Brady Gaster March 31, 2016 Mar 31, 2016 03/31/16

In the Azure SDK 2.9 we’ve made it significantly more convenient for developers who use Azure App Service to host their Web, Mobile, API, and background-processing WebJob apps. We’ve heard from customers who use Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates to create their Azure topologies that they’re rarely creating one web app or one API ...

Web Extension Pack for Visual Studio 2015

Mads Kristensen March 9, 2016 Mar 9, 2016 03/9/16

The Visual Studio extensibility ecosystem has been steadily growing in the past years and the community has built some really great extensions. Some of these extensions are specific to web development scenarios and are useful to almost all web developers using Visual Studio. The only problem is to find all these relevant extensions. That’...

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