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Announcing RTM of ASP.NET Identity 2.1.0

We are releasing RTM of ASP.NET Identity 2.1.0. The main focus in this release was to fix bugs and add SignInManager to make it easier to use security features such as Account Lockout, Two-Factor Authentication for login. ASP.NET Identity 2.1 is included in the ASP.NET templates which were released with VS 2013 Update 3. The templates have ...

MultiDictionary becomes MultiValueDictionary

We just shipped an update to our experimental implementation of a multi value dictionary. In this post, our software developer intern Ian Hays talks about the changes. -- Immo Goodbye MultiDictionary In my last post I went over , officially available on NuGet as the prerelease package Microsoft.Experimental.Collections. We received great ...

Use a Microsoft Account to Create Web Apps Protected by Azure AD – With VS2013 Update 3

Back in December I have posted an article which described a limitation of the organizational identities support in the ASP.NET project templates in Visual Studio 2013. In a nutshell. The ASP.NET project templates in Visual Studio 2013 have the ability to automatically create an entry for your application in Azure Active Directory – so ...

Announcing new Web Features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RTM

Today, the Visual Studio team announced the release of RTM version of Visual Studio 2013 Update 3.  Our team added a few useful features and did some bug fixing in this update to improve the web development experience.  Our team also released Azure SDK 2.4 SDK today, you can read the detail here. Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools ...

Profile and Time your ASP.NET MVC app all the way to Azure

Successful web app dev teams generally consider performance a requirement from the beginning,  not an afterthought. Performance should be considered in all phases of a project, from design and into production, including updates to the app. That's not to say you should try to optimize code before you've measured it, you really don't know...

Announcing the beta release of Web Pages 3.2.1

The NuGet packages for ASP.NET Web Pages 3.2.1 beta are now live on the NuGet gallery! Download this release You can install or update the NuGet package for ASP.NET Web Pages 3.2.1 beta using the NuGet Package Manager Console, with the following commands: Prerequisites for this release What’s in this release? This release ...

ASP.NET vNext in Visual Studio “14” CTP 2

Today we released various runtime and tooling updates for ASP.NET vNext in the Visual Studio “14” CTP 2. This CTP includes our alpha2 runtime packages for ASP.NET vNext. You can find all the details on the specific enhancements added and issues fixed in the published release notes on GitHub.For information on how to get started ...

dotnetConf 2014 Wrapup

(image) We just wanted to say thank you for your time attending the dotnetConf in June 2014 where we shared innovation and news about the present and future of .NET, all in a single place focusing on .NET technologies.  You may have missed sessions during the streaming delivered on June 25th and 26th, so, for your convenience, we’d ...