Showing results for February 2015 - .NET Blog

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 here ...

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 corefx, c...

That was a quick turn-around... we issued our 3.0 beta just a few days ago and our community of developers and supporters quickly found a number of issues with it. Thank you to the early reporters on Twitter and on this blog for helping us to identify those issues. We would like to issue an update to our Visual Studio extension to correct some of t...

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 tast...

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 runtime...

Its time for the 3.0 beta release for NuGet, and this time we have some much sought-after enhancements in the works for you. You can get access to the update NuGet binaries on Codeplex and through the Visual Studio extension manager. We are only releasing these preview bits for Visual Studio 2013 (on CodePlex only) and for Visual Studio 2015. We ar...

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: This is...

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 to be...

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 defa...

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 strongly b...