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Visual Studio project compatibility and VisualStudioVersion

August 21, 2012 Aug 21, 2012 08/21/12
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
One of the most requested features of Visual Studio 2012 was the ability to open projects in both VS 2012 as well as VS 2010 (requires VS 2010 SP1). In case you haven’t heard we did implement that feature. You may be wondering how we were able to do this and how this may impact you. If you open the .csproj/.vbproj for a Web Project created ...

Getting Started with ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms

August 20, 2012 Aug 20, 2012 08/20/12
Kthnwmn
The best way to learn what’s new in ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms, is to work through the latest tutorial series by Erik Reitan: Getting Started with ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms. The 10 tutorials in the series progressively guide you through building a Web Forms application, which is a simplified example of a store front web site that sells items online...

Releasing Microsoft ASP.NET Universal Providers Core 1.2

August 20, 2012 Aug 20, 2012 08/20/12
pranav rastogi
I hope everyone has been busy downloading Visual Studio 2012 and have started building awesome web applications. We have been busy too during this time.We have just released an update to the version of Universal Providers that shipped with VS2012. Following are the key changes with this release  What should you doThis version of ...

More info on publish links in Visual Studio 2012

August 15, 2012 Aug 15, 2012 08/15/12
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
Within the web publishing tools in Visual Studio there are a few places where we point to more resources. For example if you open a VS publish profile (.pubxml) file you will see a link in the comments pointing to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=208121. Note: you can find the VS publish profiles in your web project under Properties\...

Visual Studio 2012 RTW

August 15, 2012 Aug 15, 2012 08/15/12
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Visual Studio 2012 is now released to the web. Please visit Jason Zander’s Blog for detailed announcement. This page lists what’s new in ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio for Web.We are updating the Visual Studio 2010 publish experience as well to align with the features available in Visual Studio 2012 RTW. The bits are inside Windows ...

Announcing the release of .NET Framework 4.5 RTM – Product and Source Code

August 15, 2012 Aug 15, 2012 08/15/12
Brandon Bray
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is unsupported. Updated – 8/16/2012: Added license information about the source code release. Today, we are happy to announce the availability of Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012. You can develop apps that will take advantage of all ...

OAuth/OpenID Support for WebForms, MVC and WebPages

August 15, 2012 Aug 15, 2012 08/15/12
pranav rastogi
[Update] Adding relevant links at the bottom of the post One of the coolest features in Visual Studio 2012 is the ability to login using your Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter or Google account. The project templates showcase a social way of logging in along with the usual way of logging in by creating a local account This post highlights how you ...