Visual Studio 2013 Preview shipped with support to create new ASP.NET projects that can be easily configured with organizational accounts. This support has been simplified and enhanced in this RC version. You can find a detailed step-by-step tutorial on creating an ASP.NET MVC project with single organizational identity at Developing ASP.NET Apps w...

The blog is based on Visual Studio 2013 RC release. We have completely rewritten the SPA template from the previous version( MVC 4). Here are some of the changes we made: Note that SPA VB template is still not available in this RC release. We will ship it with RTM release. In this blog, I will focus on the security ...

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 strengths is its...

Brief Entity Framework 6 introduces support for the .NET 4.5 asynchronous programming pattern using the async and await keywords. And in Visual Studio 2013 RC we’re making it easier for you to take advantage of this new capability by optionally generating asynchronous code when you scaffold MVC and Web API controllers. Why First thing...

Over the past several months, we’ve been working on a new set of collection types that offer an immutable design. Today we are happy to announce that we are one step closer to a stable version of this work: we’ve just shipped the release candidate (1.0.23 RC) of the Microsoft.Bcl.Immutable NuGet package. Because we could: an immutabl...

When running Web applications from within Visual Studio, there have generally been two primary hosts available while developing: a local “development” Web server, or a full version of Internet Information Services (IIS). There has also been a “custom server” option, where a path to a server executable could be entered; however, this was not a widel...

We are now making it easier to create a new Windows Azure Web Site from Visual Studio 2013 RC. This feature can be accessed from the Web Sites sub node under the Windows Azure node in Server Explorer. You would need to install Azure SDK 2.1 before you can use this feature. You can follow these steps to create a new Windows Azure Web Site. 1. Impor...

Over the last few months, the Browser Link team has worked on delivering these new features in the Visual Studio 2013 RC release: For those who are not familiar with Browser Link, please look at our introductory blog here. Browser Link Dashboard The Browser Link Dashboard is a tool window in VS that shows all active browser link connec...

Starting September 3rd, some users started having issues uploading packages that contain portable libraries; on September 10th, we deployed a fix to address those issues. Errors Experienced Depending on how you were publishing your package, you would have experienced the errors in a few different ways. Upload Package page on nuget.org If you we...

Announcing release of ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 RC I’m excited to show the new features of the ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 RC. Click here to download and install the Visual Studio 2013 RC today. Please check http://www.asp.net/vnext for release notes, documentation, and tutorials. This blog includes both t...