February 2015

Updates to ASP.NET 5 yeoman generators for beta 3

Jeffrey Fritz February 28, 2015 Feb 28, 2015 02/28/15

Hi everyone, the blog post below is written by Shayne Boyer, who is a community member that has been working on the ASP.NET 5 yeoman generators. I hope you enjoy it. - Sayed With the most recent version of Visual Studio 2015 CTP, CTP 6 this past Monday, there were some great improvements not only in the IDE but also ASP.NET 5. See the article ...

.NET Core Open Source Update – February 26, 2015

Rich Lander [MSFT] February 26, 2015 Feb 26, 2015 02/26/15

It has been a couple weeks since we last reported on the .NET Core open source project. It's been a very fun time, watching more people get involved in the project and to see progress on a daily basis. It's amazing watching my GitHub news feed. I have to scroll through several page views just to get through the last hour (on a weekday) of ...

Identity Updates for Web Developers in Visual Studio 2015 CTP6

Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT February 25, 2015 Feb 25, 2015 02/25/15

As anticipated in Monday’s announcement, the CTP release of Visual Studio 2015 brings lots of interesting news to identityland – both in the IDE and in the form of libraries we released on NuGet at the same time. The features are still in preview (some of them, very much so ) but at this point you should be able to start getting a ...

ASP.NET 5 Updates and other improvements for Web Developers in Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6

Jeffrey Fritz February 23, 2015 Feb 23, 2015 02/23/15

It's time for another Visual Studio 2015 CTP, and with the CTP 6 release in February 2015 you should find a number of improvements that every web developer will enjoy. In this article we'll review the new features and improvements in ASP.NET 5 and the Visual Studio editor improvements delivered in CTP 6. For a complete list of the ASP.NET 5 ...

Open sourcing and releasing ASP.NET Identity 2.2.0

pranav rastogi February 20, 2015 Feb 20, 2015 02/20/15

We are releasing the final version of ASP.NET Identity 2.2. The main focus in this release was to fix bugs and address performance issues. Open source We have also made the source code publicly available on aspnetidentity.codeplex.com and will be taking contributions to the project. Check out the project home page for more details. Note: ...

Improve performance by optimizing queries for ASP.NET Identity and other Membership Providers

pranav rastogi February 11, 2015 Feb 11, 2015 02/11/15

If your application is using ASP.NET Identity or other membership systems such as SQL, Universal or Simple membership, then you might be running into the following issue. If you are using ASP.NET Identity 2.x, the query for getting profile values (among other things) uses the UPPER() function on Username - this causes any indexes on username ...

ASP.NET MVC 5.2.3, Web Pages 3.2.3 and Web API 5.2.3 Release

Yishai G_ February 9, 2015 Feb 9, 2015 02/9/15

While the MVC team is working hard on MVC 6 as part of the ASP.NET 5 effort, we also keep working on the 5.x packages. Today we are releasing ASP.NET MVC 5.2.3, Web Pages 5.2.3 and Web API 5.2.3. This release addresses 13 issues. Here is the full list. Highlight of issues fixed Web API Issues 2092 Significant performance improvement in the...

Automatic code formatter released to GitHub

Immo Landwerth February 9, 2015 Feb 9, 2015 02/9/15

Code formatting can be a huge pain point. In this post, Jared Parsons, software developer on the Roslyn team, showcases a tool that takes care of it. We have just released the code formatting tool we use to automatically format our code to the prescribed coding guidelines. This tool is based on Roslyn and will work on any C# project. We ...

Introducing the Visual Studio 2015 Extension for ASP.NET Project Templates

pranav rastogi February 8, 2015 Feb 8, 2015 02/8/15

In Visual Studio 2013, there were a handful of templates that supported developing ASP.NET projects with various frameworks and data structures. Some of those project templates from the Visual Studio 2012 era have been removed from the Visual Studio 2015 install and added to the Visual Studio Extension gallery as the ASP.NET Project ...

Debugging ASP.NET 5 framework code using Visual Studio 2015

Victor Hurdugaci February 6, 2015 Feb 6, 2015 02/6/15

In the previous versions of ASP.NET it was possible to debug certain parts of the framework stack but setting up the development environment and compiling all the binaries was not the easiest task. ASP.NET 5 changes that and makes debugging framework code as easy as debugging your own application. This article shows how to debug into the ASP....

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