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Katana License Lifts Windows-only Restriction

July 24, 2013 Jul 24, 2013 07/24/13
howard dierking - MSFT
(cross-posted from http://codebetter.com/howarddierking/2013/07/23/katana-license-lifts-windows-only-restriction/) Over the past few months, a great deal of attention has been paid to the following clause used in most of the licenses associated with the NuGet packages that we and other teams at Microsoft ship.   “ a. Distribution ...

Publish HTML/JS website to Linux/Apache using Visual Studio

July 23, 2013 Jul 23, 2013 07/23/13
Xinyang Qiu
We received a question about how to use Visual Studio to deploy HTML/JS website to Linux / Apache.  To do it, you need to create an empty ASP.NET website project in Visual Studio (File->New Web Site…) and then include all the HTML/JS files. 1. Right click on the website Project, select “Publish Web Site”. 2. Drop ...

Writing Web API Client Code for Multiple Platforms Using Portable Libraries

July 19, 2013 Jul 19, 2013 07/19/13
Ian_Hong
The Microsoft ASP.NET Web API Client Libraries make it easy to write .NET clients that interact with RESTful HTTP services. Unfortunately, until recently the Web API client libraries did not support all platforms. Because of this limitation, developers had to maintain different code, depending on the target platform. The new release of ...

HttpClient 2.2 is now stable

July 17, 2013 Jul 17, 2013 07/17/13
Immo Landwerth
As promised, we’ve just pushed the RTM version of HttpClient 2.2 to NuGet. This version adds support for automatic decompression. As announced here, this doesn’t require a dependency on Microsoft.Bcl.Compression. This allowed us to support automatic decompression on more platforms and without forcing your projects to change the CPU...

Tracing in ASP.NET MVC Razor Views

July 16, 2013 Jul 16, 2013 07/16/13
Tom Dykstra - MSFT
System.Diagnostics.Trace can be a useful tool for logging and debugging, and sometimes it would be handy to be able to call one of the tracing methods from a Razor view. For example, when an MVC application runs in production, by default MVC catches most application exceptions for you and routes them to Views/Shared/Error.cshtml. That view ...

“Enable Edit and Continue” debugging option is now on by default for new web applications in VS2013 preview

July 11, 2013 Jul 11, 2013 07/11/13
Xinyang Qiu
In VS2010 and VS2012, the edit and continue option is disabled by default when creating a new web application project. In VS2013 preview, we turned it on by default. You can find this option on the Web tab in the web project’s properties window.   (image) With “Enable Edit and Continue” on, the VS debugger starts your...

HttpClient 2.2 is now RC

July 10, 2013 Jul 10, 2013 07/10/13
Immo Landwerth
Today we are happy to announce the next step in providing a portable HttpClient with automatic decompression: we just pushed the RC version to NuGet. From Beta to RTM We haven’t changed much since the beta we shipped three weeks ago – simply because we didn’t have to. In general we follow these steps when shipping ...

Introducing $select and $expand support in Web API OData

July 5, 2013 Jul 5, 2013 07/5/13
Javier Calvarro Nelson
Last week Microsoft released the preview of Visual Studio 2013, and along with it came the ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Preview. In this new release, we are expanding the OData support in Web API to include support for $select and $expand, two of the most popular OData query operators. In this blog post...