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May 2014 - Page 2 of 3 - .NET Blog

ASP.NET vNext: the future of .NET on the Server

May 13, 2014 May 13, 2014 05/13/14
Xinyang Qiu
At TechEd we announced our plans and vision for ASP.NET vNext. ASP.NET vNext is being designed from the bottom up to be a lean and composable .NET stack for building web and cloud based applications. You can find an overview of ASP.NET vNext and walkthroughs of the current experience at http://www.asp.net/vnext. To learn more ...

Improvements to ASP.NET Web Forms

May 13, 2014 May 13, 2014 05/13/14
pranav rastogi
The Visual Studio team released Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RTM. As part of this update we have added new features for ASP.NET Web Forms. This post will highlight some of the improvements done in ASP.NET Web Forms which are part of this release and some changes that we are working on. ASP.NET Identity 2.0 Support ASP.NET Identity is the new ...

Announcing ASP.NET Session State Provider for Redis Preview Release

May 12, 2014 May 12, 2014 05/12/14
Guang Yang - MSFT
Today, we are pleased to announce a preview release of ASP.NET Session State Provider for Redis. You can use it with your own Redis server or the newly announce Microsoft Azure Redis Cache (Preview). What is Redis Redis is an open source, BSD licensed, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys ...

The Next Generation of .NET – ASP.NET vNext

May 12, 2014 May 12, 2014 05/12/14
.NET Team
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. Updated (July 2015): See Announcing .NET Framework 4.6 to read about the latest version of the NET Framework. Today at TechEd North America, we announced the latest set of innovations that are part of the next generation of .NET. The biggest of those is ASP.NET ...

Announcing new Web Features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RTM

May 12, 2014 May 12, 2014 05/12/14
Xinyang Qiu
Today, the Visual Studio team announced the release of RTM version of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 .  Our team added a few useful features and did some bug fixing in this update to improve the web development experience.  This blog will contain all of the features introduced in RC and a few updates. We will have future blogs to talk ...

The .NET Native Tool-Chain

May 9, 2014 May 9, 2014 05/9/14
.NET Team
This post was authored by Xy Ziemba, Program Manager on the .NET Native team. At BUILD, we announced .NET Native Preview. .NET Native is a compilation technology and a small runtime that allow .NET applications to start up to 60% faster and have a smaller memory footprint. We've previously discussed at a high-level how .NET Native provides ...

.NET at MonkeySpace Europe, June 9-11

May 8, 2014 May 8, 2014 05/8/14
Immo Landwerth
This post was written by Daniel Plaisted, a member of the .NET Framework team who will be at MonkeySpace. MonkeySpace is the “official cross platform and open-source .NET conference.” This year, MonkeySpace Europe will be held June 9th-11th in Dublin, Ireland. Since it’s a conference specifically focused on open source and ...

.NET at MonkeySpace Europe, June 9-11

May 8, 2014 May 8, 2014 05/8/14
Immo Landwerth
This post was written by Daniel Plaisted, a member of the .NET Framework team who will be at MonkeySpace. MonkeySpace is the “official cross platform and open-source .NET conference.” This year, MonkeySpace Europe will be held June 9th-11th in Dublin, Ireland. Since it’s a conference specifically focused on open source and ...

ASP.NET 4.5.2 and EnableViewStateMac

May 7, 2014 May 7, 2014 05/7/14
levibroderick
Please note: This post is now outdated. See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2014/09/09/farewell-enableviewstatemac.aspx for the most up-to-date information. A few months ago, we posted that we were making changes to the way EnableViewStateMac behaves in ASP.NET. I’ll forego the typical blog post ceremony and cut right to the ...