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Today, we are pleased to announce an update to ASP.NET DynamicData and EntityDataSource control, so that they work with Entity Framework 6.What’s in this preview- DynamicData provider for Entity Framework 6- EntityDataSource control for Entity Framework 6How to install this previewYou can download this preview for ASP.NET DynamicData....

We are announcing the RTM of the EventSource NuGet package, which enables fast app tracing to the Windows Event Log, including in production. This post was written by Cosmin Radu, a software developer on the .NET Runtime team. Over the past several weeks we’ve been working on addressing some feedback we’ve received from our users and ...

This post describes .NET NuGet library servicing support in the .NET Framework 4.5.1. It was written by Alok Shriram, a Program Manager on the .NET Core Framework Team. In the .NET Framework 4.5.1, we extended our .NET Framework security update capability to our NuGet libraries, enabling us to deliver security updates for those libraries on ...

The NuGet packages for ASP.NET MVC 5.1, ASP.NET Web API 2.1 and ASP.NET Web Pages 3.1 are now live on the NuGet gallery!Download this releaseYou can install or update to the released NuGet packages for ASP.NET MVC 5.1, ASP.NET Web API 2.1 and ASP.NET Web Pages 3.1 using the NuGet Package Manager Console, like this: Pre-requisites for ...

In Visual Studio 2013 we shipped support for creating new ASP.NET projects which use Windows Azure Active Directory for Organizational Authentication. Vittorio Bertocci has recently written a great blog post Setting Up an ASP.NET Project with Organizational Authentication Requires an Organizational Account. If you are using the Org Auth features in...

The ADO.NET Entity Data Model Designer (Entity Designer) is a GUI tool for editing Entity Framework models. You can use the Entity Designer to visually create and modify entities, associations, mappings, and inheritance relationships. You can also use the tool to validate the model. When you build the Entity Framework models, Entity Designer in ...

We have published online and downloadable e-book versions of Scott Guthrie’s presentation titled Building Real-World Cloud Apps with Windows Azure (original video version is available here: part 1, part 2).Along with the e-book we published the code for the Fix It application that Scott developed to demonstrate many of the recommended cloud ...

We recently released the 2.0.0-alpha1 version of ASP.NET Identity. Learn more here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2013/12/20/announcing-preview-of-microsoft-aspnet-identity-2-0-0-alpha1.aspx To provide a more secure user experience for the application, you might want to customize the password complexity policy. This might include minimum ...