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How your feedback is shaping .NET

April 9, 2014 Apr 9, 2014 04/9/14

Immo Landwerth

Eight months ago we asked you to provide feedbackon the features you want us to ship. And you didn’t disappoint! Since then, we’ve seen hundreds of Tweets, blog posts and user voice votes. It’s great to be part of such a thriving community. We are fully committed to improving the .NET ecosystem by being more open. To quote Habib from ...

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...

Announcing .NET Native Preview

April 2, 2014 Apr 2, 2014 04/2/14

.NET Team

This post was written by Subramanian Ramaswamy and Andrew Pardoe, Senior Program Managers on the .NET Native team. We’re thrilled to announce the first release of .NET Native. Windows Store apps start up to 60% faster with .NET Native and have a much smaller memory footprint. Our first release is a Developer Preview that allows you to ...

Available Now: Preview of Project “Orleans” – Cloud Services at Scale

April 2, 2014 Apr 2, 2014 04/2/14

.NET Team

This post was written by Niklas Gustafsson, Principal Program Manager on the Cloud Platform Tooling Team Today, at Build 2014, we are announcing the preview release of a cloud programming model under the codename “Orleans”. This project originated in Microsoft Research. Project “Orleans” provides a straightforward approach to building...

Announcing new web features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC

April 2, 2014 Apr 2, 2014 04/2/14

Xinyang Qiu

Today, the Visual Studio team announced the release of RC 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 CTP2 and a few updates. We will have future blogs to talk ...