August 2014

Using WCF in .NET Native

August 28, 2014 Aug 28, 2014 08/28/14

Immo L

This post was authored by Ron Cain, a Software Development Engineer on the WCF team. In our previous post, we mentioned that some of the client components of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) had been made available for .NET Native Windows Store apps in Visual Studio "14" CTP3. In this post, I will describe how to build a sample WCF ...

Announcing the Release Candidates for Web API OData 5.3

August 27, 2014 Aug 27, 2014 08/27/14

The release candidate NuGet packages for ASP.NET Web API OData 5.3 are now live on the NuGet gallery!Download this releaseYou can install or update the release candidate NuGet packages for ASP.NET Web API OData 5.3 using the NuGet Package Manager Console, like this: What’s in this release?This release primarily includes great new ...

Being an intern on the .NET Team

August 25, 2014 Aug 25, 2014 08/25/14

Immo L

This summer we had six amazing interns that joined the team to work on .NET. Their projects ranged from internal tools, over shipping components to designing forward looking aspects: If you're interested in interning with Microsoft, visit our recruiting web site. Now let's dive right in and see what cool stuff they helped us building. ...

Customizing Web API controller selector

August 22, 2014 Aug 22, 2014 08/22/14

In the last few weeks we have encountered a customer reports of performance issues with their Web API applications. When the 4th report exhibited the same phenomenon I figured it’s time to blog about it. Why would you customize a controller selector? (hint – try not to) It gives you a chance to control how the request gets routed. ...

Command line scaffolding for ASP.NET vNext

August 21, 2014 Aug 21, 2014 08/21/14

Sayed H

In previous releases we have added support for scaffolding controllers/views based on project artifacts in both MVC and Web Forms projects. The technology used for those previous releases was tied to Visual Studio. With ASP.NET vNext one of our high level goals is to enable Visual Studio customers to work with non-Visual Studio users. So the ...

Announcing RTM of Katana 3

August 20, 2014 Aug 20, 2014 08/20/14

Dear all,Today I have the honor and privilege of announcing the general availability of Katana 3!This is an important update to Microsoft’s OWIN implementation, which offers you powerful new functionality. In a nutshell: You can find the new packages in the stable feed of NuGet.org. For a complete list please see this page. The ...

Upgrading to jQuery.UI.Combined 1.11.0

August 19, 2014 Aug 19, 2014 08/19/14

Pranav R

The jQueryUI team released a new version of their library recently. This release has some changes which will impact your apps as you migrate to 1.11.0. This post will highlight the changes you need to do to use jQuery.UI.Combined NuGet package.ChangesI am going to highlight the change that is relevant to this post. For a full list of changes/ ...

Try out the new releases: .NET Framework vNext, ASP.NET vNext, .NET Native and RyuJIT

August 18, 2014 Aug 18, 2014 08/18/14

.NET Team

Update (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. Today, we are announcing updated versions of .NET Framework vNext, ASP.NET vNext, .NET Native and RyuJIT. You can try out these new releases by installing Visual Studio “14” CTP3. Please tell us what you think. The .NET Framework vNext We are releasing an early ...

ASP.NET vNext in Visual Studio “14” CTP 3

August 18, 2014 Aug 18, 2014 08/18/14

Today we released various runtime and tooling updates for ASP.NET vNext in Visual Studio “14” CTP 3. We included all the features that were included in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 in this release. This release also has ASP.NET vNext runtime and tooling improvements as outlined below. ASP.NET vNext Runtime This CTP includes our ...

August 2014 Security Updates

August 12, 2014 Aug 12, 2014 08/12/14

The .NET team released a security bulletin today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle.Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-046 - Important, Vulnerabilities in .NET Framework could allow Security Feature Bypass (2984625).This update resolves a vulnerability in the Microsoft .NET Framework that could bypass the Address Space...

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