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Update (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is no longer supported. We continue to bring certain features through updates to .NET 4 without having to wait for the .NET 4.5 release. This post covers what the latest platform update has to offer. Vivek Mishra from the .NET Servicing team authored the followin...

Using Page Inspector In Visual Studio 11 Beta, you can see what elements in the source files (including server-side code) have produced the HTML markup that is rendered to the browser. Page Inspector also let you modify CSS properties and DOM element attributes and see the changes reflected immediately in the browser.  We have two tutorials li...

Jon Skeet recently asked me how I might go about implementing the following “asynchronous ForEach” behavior: Given what we now know about SemaphoreSlim from my previous post, here’s one way to achieve this: public static Task ForEachAsync<TSource, TResult>(     this IEnumerable<TSource> ...

The C# and Visual Basic compilers implement support for async/await by generating code that utilizes some specific types in the underlying framework.  These types include the “awaiters” used to await things (like Tasks) as well as the “builders” used in handling the lifetime of an async method’s invocation. With t...

Thanks to everyone who attended my "The Zen of Async" presentation on Thursday at the MVP Summit.  As I've had several requests, here are the slides and code for the talk. Toub_MVPSummit2012_ZenOfAsync.zip

In planning for the next release of Visual Studio, streamlining the development process was a high priority.  In this vein we are proud to announce two new features in Visual Studio 11 Beta that simplify and improve the development experience: setting the default browser from the toolbar, and quickly adding new items to your project from the c...

Visual Studio 11 Beta is now available to download.  Please visit Jason Zander's Blog for the download links and overview of the new features. We have many enhanced many features in the Beta. We'll discuss some of them in future blog posts.Here are a few web development tools features included in the Visual Studio 11 Beta compared to VS20...

At //BUILD/ in September, we blogged about the wealth of new support available for parallelism in the .NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview.  Since then, we’ve been hard at work on the .NET 4.5 Beta.  With the beta just released, here are a few interesting and related things that are new or have changed since the Developer Preview re...

Update (2017): See .NET Framework releases to learn about newer releases. This release is no longer supported. In September, we released the .NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview. The Developer Preview was essentially a “feature complete” release, enabling you to “kick the tires” and otherwise get a good sense of what we were in the process of buil...

We shipped MVC4 Beta recently, and found it may cause VS2010 sp1 cshtml/vbhtml editor to pause for a long time after typing snippet, JavaScript inside cshtml or vbhtml files, if the MVC4 application has just been created and has not been compiled.The workaround is to compile the project to get the assemblies in the bin folder.  Note, if you cl...