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Announcing release of ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 RC

September 9, 2013 Sep 9, 2013 09/9/13
Xinyang Qiu
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 ...

Announcing the .NET Framework 4.5.1 RC

September 9, 2013 Sep 9, 2013 09/9/13
.NET Team
Update (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is unsupported. Update: The .NET Framework 4.5.1 RTM has been released and is available for download. The .NET Framework 4.5.1 RC is now available. It comes with a go-live license, enabling you to deploy 4.5.1 apps in production. Here are the RC bits. ...

Updated NuGet Support in Visual Studio 2012.4

September 3, 2013 Sep 3, 2013 09/3/13
Immo Landwerth
As Brian Harry recently announced, there will be a Visual Studio 2012 Update 4. With RC2, we’ve updated the NuGet support. In this blog post, I’ll summarize those improvements. Updated NuGet Client The RTM version of Visual Studio 2012 included a fairly old version of the NuGet client (2.0). Although the NuGet team regularly ...

NuGet 2.7 Package Restore Tips

August 30, 2013 Aug 30, 2013 08/30/13
Jeff Handley [MSFT]
Since the release of NuGet 2.7 with Automatic Package Restore and implicit consent, many developers have adopted the new approach and provided some great feedback on their experiences. Based on that feedback, we have collected a set of tips to help you start using the new restore features. Using Automatic Package Restore Even though package ...

Introducing NuGet Concierge

August 28, 2013 Aug 28, 2013 08/28/13
Mads Kristensen
Twelve weeks ago, the Azure Applications Platform & Tools team welcomed us, three college sophomores, Jaspreet Bagga, Jeremiah Jekich, and Melissa McNeill, to Microsoft. As Explorer Interns, we were given the opportunity to experience the three primary disciplines here at Microsoft: Program Manager, Software Development Engineer, and ...

NuGet Package Restore with Team Foundation Build

August 27, 2013 Aug 27, 2013 08/27/13
Immo Landwerth
Note: This post is now also part of the official NuGet documentation. In this post, I’ll provide a walkthrough on how to use package restore with Team Foundation Build with both, git as well TF version control. In our previous blog post on how we improved package restore, I showed that NuGet 2.7 and Microsoft.Bcl.Build made restoring ...

NuGet 2.7 Released

August 27, 2013 Aug 27, 2013 08/27/13
DeepakVerma
The NuGet team is excited to announce NuGet 2.7 release, for details please see the release notes published on docs.nuget.org.NuGet 2.7 Features Note that with NuGet 2.7, we have removed support for Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone due to technical limitations related to the new automatic package restore. A separate ...

Update: Knockout IntelliSense Highlight Bug Fix

August 26, 2013 Aug 26, 2013 08/26/13
VKichline
In an earlier blog post on June 24th entitled Knockout IntelliSense Highlighting Bug Fix I described a bug fix in the Knockout IntelliSense feature. In that post I recommended installing Windows Azure SDK for .NET (VS 2012) – 2.0 to acquire the fix since it did not make it into any of the Visual Studio Updates for 2012. Several ...

Web Publishing a simpler way to exclude files/folders from being published

August 22, 2013 Aug 22, 2013 08/22/13
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
I’ve written a few blog posts on how to exclude files from publishing/packaging. In each of these posts you’d have to be familiar with MSBuild and the Web Publish process. I’ve been looking for a much simpler way to exclude files/folder from publishing. When using git you can easily exclude files and folders using a .gitignore file. ...