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EF Code First Migrations Deployment to an Azure Cloud Service

April 8, 2014 Apr 8, 2014 04/8/14

Tom Dykstra - MSFT

To deploy a Code First database to an Azure Web Site, you can use the Execute Code First Migrations check box in the Publish Web wizard: (image) When you select that check box, Visual Studio configures the destination web site so that Entity Framework automatically deploys the database or updates it by running the ...

The JIT finally proposed. JIT and SIMD are getting married.

April 7, 2014 Apr 7, 2014 04/7/14

Immo Landwerth

Processor speed no longer follows Moore’s law. So in order to optimize the performance of your applications, it’s increasingly important to embrace parallelization. Or, as Herb Sutter phrased it, the free lunch is over. You may think that task-based programming or offloading work to threads is already the answer. While multi-...

Creating a Custom Scaffolder for Visual Studio

April 3, 2014 Apr 3, 2014 04/3/14

Joost de Nijs

With the release of Visual Studio 2013 last October, we introduced the concept of Scaffolding to Web Application projects. Scaffolding is the framework on which code generation for MVC and WebAPI is built. For more information on Scaffolding or the MVC Scaffolders check the following blog post: http://www.asp.net/visual-studio/...

The Next Generation of .NET

April 3, 2014 Apr 3, 2014 04/3/14

.NET Team

At Build 2014 this week, we announced the next generation of .NET. The next generation will focus and deliver on two main themes: Core Innovation and cross-device apps. These themes are a direct result of your feedback, asking for new features in .NET and to make it easier to use .NET for all your apps. At Build 2014, we are releasing...