ASP.NET Identity is the new membership system for building ASP.NET applications. The new tutorial explains how to migrate an application that uses ASP.NET Membership to the new ASP.NET Identity system. The tutorial shows how to enable existing users to log in with the new Identity system by migrating the database tables that store u...
In Visual Studio 2013 we have added a couple of small features for web publishing that I’d like to share with you. Those updates are; how to take your app offline during publishing and how you can update the default file compare option. App offline support In Visual Studio when you publish your web application we do not force the remote app to be...
From the time we added CORS support for ASP.NET WEB API, we have seen many questions on its usage, including questions about sending cross-origin requests (CORS) from IE. IE 10 and higher fully support using XMLHttpRequest to send cross-origin requests. CORS for XHR in IE10 is a great blog post on this approach.CORS is also supporte...
Starting with NuGet 2.6, XML-Document-Transform (XDT) is supported to transform XML files inside a project. The XDT syntax can be utilized in the .install.xdt and .uninstall.xdt file(s) under the package’s Content folder, which will be applied during package installation and uninstallation time, respectively. One of XDT’s greatest stren...
Adding Core References Support in an ASP.NET Empty Project Brief In Visual Studio 2013 we introduced the core reference framework to ASP.NET project creation. You can choose what core references you want in your to-be-created project. How Let’s take the example of adding Web API core references in an Empty ASP.NET Project Summary As...
Hello everyone. I was prompted to write this post from a comment I received on http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2013/10/17/announcing-release-of-asp-net-and-web-tools-for-visual-studio-2013.aspx. I am pasting the comment verbatim from the post “I'm having a lot of difficulty integrating the IdentityDbContext with other DbContexts to create ...
I’m excited to show the new features of ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013. Visit Somasegar’s blog for details on Visual Studio 2013 RTW. Download Visual Studio 2013 to try out the new features in this release. Read the Visual Studio blog for information about general editor enhancements, including the preview time JavaScript ...
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. Today, we’re announcing the availability of the .NET Framework 4.5.1 and Visual Studio 2013 (Soma’s blog). You can download these ...
Routing is how ASP.NET MVC matches a URI to an action. MVC 5 supports a new type of routing, called attribute routing. As the name implies, attribute routing uses attributes to define routes. Attribute routing gives you more control over the URIs in your web application. The earlier style of routing, called convention-based routing, is still fully ...
This post describes how the .NET team uses NuGet and how discoverability and serviceability have improved in the .NET Framework 4.5.1. It was written by Alok Shriram, a Program Manager on the .NET Core Framework Team. Update: Read PCL and .NET NuGet Libraries are now enabled for Xamarin to learn more about how our NuGet packages can now...
