June 2013

Make VS2012 MVC4 VSIX template to work for Visual Studio 2013 preview

Xinyang Qiu June 29, 2013 Jun 29, 2013 06/29/13

Visual Studio 2012.2 supports customized MVC4 template, you can get a walkthrough here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/yjhong/archive/2012/12/13/custom-mvc-4-template-walkthrough.aspx or http://www.asp.net/mvc/overview/getting-started/custom-mvc-templates. But the created template VSIX file cannot be uploaded to VS Gallery at the time. Starting ...

Browser Link feature in Visual Studio Preview 2013

Reshmi Mangalore June 28, 2013 Jun 28, 2013 06/28/13

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>...

Introducing ASP.NET Identity – A membership system for ASP.NET applications

pranav rastogi June 27, 2013 Jun 27, 2013 06/27/13

ASP.NET Identity is the new membership system for building ASP.NET web applications. ASP.NET Identity allows you to add login features to your application and makes it easy to customize data about the logged in user. [Update] Please visit ASP.NET Identity for getting the latest information about ASP.NET Identity project and learning...

Get the latest .NET Bits

.NET Team June 27, 2013 Jun 27, 2013 06/27/13

We maintain a set of pages that make it easier for you to find all the .NET Framework versions, SDKs, and targeting packs that you can take advantage of in your .NET apps, as we mentioned last year on the .NET blog. We recently redesigned the pages and added more SDKs for you to download. You may even find some SDKs to try that you didn’t ...

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

pranav rastogi June 27, 2013 Jun 27, 2013 06/27/13

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

VKichline June 27, 2013 Jun 27, 2013 06/27/13

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

Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi June 26, 2013 Jun 26, 2013 06/26/13

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 ...

Announcing release of ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Preview and the refresh update

Xinyang Qiu June 26, 2013 Jun 26, 2013 06/26/13

I’m excited to show the new features of the ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Preview. I’m also announcing the release of ASP.NET and Web Tools Refresh for Visual Studio 2013 Preview. This refresh update is a free download for Visual Studio 2013 Preview, and contains a few bug fixes, updated templates and Scaffolding for...

Announcing the .NET Framework 4.5.1 Preview

.NET Team June 26, 2013 Jun 26, 2013 06/26/13

Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is unsupported. Updated (July 2015): See Announcing .NET Framework 4.6 to read about the latest version of the NET Framework. Update: The .NET Framework 4.5.1 RTM has been released and is available for download. The content below is still a great ...

Knockout IntelliSense Highlighting Bug Fix

VKichline June 24, 2013 Jun 24, 2013 06/24/13

We introduced Knockout IntelliSense in Visual Studio 2012 for web projects with KnockoutJS included, and fixed a few bugs in VS Update 1 and 2. However, one bug was not fixed in VS Update 2 and is still frequently reported: the highlighting region can shift around as the page is edited: This bug was fixed and release in Web Tools ...

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