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September 2014 .NET Security Updates

The .NET team released a security bulletin and a security advisory today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle.   Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-053 - Important, Vulnerabilities in .NET Framework Could Allow Denial of Service (2990931)  This security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability in ...

Farewell, EnableViewStateMac!

The ASP.NET team is making an important announcement regarding the September 2014 security updates. All versions of the ASP.NET runtime 1.1 - 4.5.2 now forbid setting <%@ Page EnableViewStateMac="false" %> and <pages enableViewStateMac="false" />. If you have set EnableViewStateMac="false" anywhere in your application, your ...

September 2014 .NET Security Updates

The .NET team released a security bulletin and a security advisory today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle.   Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-053 - Important, Vulnerabilities in .NET Framework Could Allow Denial of Service (2990931)  This security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability in ...

September 2014 .NET Security Updates

The .NET team released a security bulletin and a security advisory today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle.   Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-053 - Important, Vulnerabilities in .NET Framework Could Allow Denial of Service (2990931)  This security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability in ...

September 2014 .NET Security Updates

The .NET team released a security bulletin and a security advisory today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle.   Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-053 - Important, Vulnerabilities in .NET Framework Could Allow Denial of Service (2990931)  This security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability in ...

Using WCF in .NET Native

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

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

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

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

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 ...