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.NET Announcements at Build 2015

April 29, 2015 Apr 29, 2015 04/29/15
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. Updated (July 2015): See Announcing .NET Framework 4.6 to read about the final version of the .NET Framework 4.6. At the Build conference today, Scott Guthrie announced the .NET Framework 4.6 RC and Visual Studio 2015 RC. He also announced important updates ...

Making It Better: ASP.NET with Visual Basic 14

April 24, 2015 Apr 24, 2015 04/24/15
Jeffrey Fritz
(image) BASIC is part of the DNA of Microsoft, and we have continued to evolve the language for most of the 40 years of the company’s existence.  In the next evolution of the language, Visual Basic 14, there are a number of great features that are being added and we want to make sure that you know we are fully supporting them with ASP...

April 2015 .NET Security Updates

April 14, 2015 Apr 14, 2015 04/14/15
The .NET Fundamentals Team
The .NET team released a security bulletin today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS15-041 - Important, Vulnerability in .NET Framework Could Allow Information Disclosure (3048010)  This update resolves a vulnerability in the Microsoft .NET Framework that could allow information ...

ASP.NET Identity 2.2.1

April 7, 2015 Apr 7, 2015 04/7/15
pranav rastogi
We are releasing ASP.NET Identity 2.2.1. The main focus in this release was to fix issues reported in 2.2.0 release. Download this release You can download ASP.NET Identity from the NuGet gallery. You can install or update these packages using the NuGet Package Manager Console, like this: Install-Package Microsoft.AspNet.Identity....

Introducing Azure API Apps

March 24, 2015 Mar 24, 2015 03/24/15
Jeffrey Fritz
As part of the Azure SDK 2.5.1 release, a new feature called Azure API Apps were included.  This new feature raises the capabilities of ASP.NET Web API, extending it with Swagger metadata while providing a simple to manage interface in the Azure Portal.  Extend your API with authentication and no code changes, or generate an SDK for your API...

Prism grows up

March 19, 2015 Mar 19, 2015 03/19/15
.NET Team
It's been over seven years since the Prism project started, led by the patterns & practices team. It was originally known as the Composite Application Library. Last year, we celebrated our 5th official release of Prism. The two major focuses of that release were: composability and ease of community contribution. From the beginning, Prism ...

Prism grows up

March 19, 2015 Mar 19, 2015 03/19/15
.NET Team
It's been over seven years since the Prism project started, led by the patterns & practices team. It was originally known as the Composite Application Library. Last year, we celebrated our 5th official release of Prism. The two major focuses of that release were: composability and ease of community contribution. From the beginning, ...

Prism grows up

March 19, 2015 Mar 19, 2015 03/19/15
.NET Team
It's been over seven years since the Prism project started, led by the patterns & practices team. It was originally known as the Composite Application Library. Last year, we celebrated our 5th official release of Prism. The two major focuses of that release were: composability and ease of community contribution. From the beginning, ...

Customize external web tools in Visual Studio 2015

March 19, 2015 Mar 19, 2015 03/19/15
Mads Kristensen
Visual Studio 2015 ships with multiple open source command line tools that are used in modern web development workflows. Those tools are: All of these tools are shipped as part of Visual Studio but are not installed in the same way as you would install them manually. They are all located in the Visual Studio install directory and are ...