Since August 16th, and especially since August 21st, the NuGet Gallery has been exhbiting intermittent performance issues. Some users are reporting errors when attempting to browse or search for NuGet packages from Visual Studio or other clients. Many users are reporting that browsing and searching are slow. There have also been timeout errors...
Today I saw the following question on StackOverflow MSDeploy - Deploying Contents of a Folder to a Remote IIS Server and decided to write this post to answer the question.
Web Deploy (aka MSDeploy) uses a provider model and there are a good number of providers available out of the box. To give you an example of some of the providers; when ...
When you authenticate a user using the OAuth/OpenId providers, you can request for some extra information about the user if you have granted access for these providers to send this information. For eg if you login using Facebook, you can request information such as Gender, country etc. Each provider has different set of data that you can ...
SignalR 0.5.3 Release Notes
The SignalR team has been working long hours in their team room in Building 18 for the past few months adding features, resolving issues, and cranking out code. Today the team has released the 0.5.3 release of SignalR. This post will cover some of the key items in the release and explain how you can make use of ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
When we released VS2010 we add support for web.config (XDT) transforms during publish/package. Note: From now on I’ll only use the word publish from now on but the full content relates to packaging as well. In the original implementation when you published your web project the web.config file would be transformed by the file web.{...
Here are some blog posts about ASP.NET WebAPI that we just released.
Here are some ASP.NET Data access blog posts intended for newcomers to ASP.NET. The purpose is basic guidance for making data access choices for ASP.NET application development. The two SQL Server docs may also be useful to people who have been using ASP.NET but ...
As you know ASP.Net SqlMembershipProvider / SqlRoleProvider only support Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Server Express. There is no support for Microsoft SQL Azure and Microsoft SQL Server Compact. The ASP.NET Universal Providers have been created in order to add support for SQL Azure to be ready for cloud environments like Azure. ...