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MSBuild Engine is now Open Source on GitHub

March 18, 2015 Mar 18, 2015 03/18/15
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Today we are pleased to announce that MSBuild is now available on GitHub and we are contributing it to the .NET Foundation! The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is a platform for building applications. By invoking msbuild.exe on your project or solution file, you can orchestrate and build products in environments where Visual Studio isn't ...

dotnetConf is back, this Wednesday

March 16, 2015 Mar 16, 2015 03/16/15
.NET Team
dotnetConf is a free, 2 day virtual event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft, and it’s this Wednesday! As you can guess by its name, it’s dedicated to your favorite development platform, .NET. Grab a comfortable chair, a pot of your favorite hot (or cold) beverage and a mind to fill with all the latest .NET product and ...

Welcome Back! – The AJAX Control Toolkit March 2015 Update

March 10, 2015 Mar 10, 2015 03/10/15
Jeffrey Fritz
Welcome Back! - The AJAX Control Toolkit March 2015 Update Its been 15 months since a significant update was released for the AJAX Control Toolkit on CodePlex. In the time since then, our friends at DevExpress have stepped up and offered to lead this open source project. In just a few short months, they have implemented a number of modern and...

Updates to ASP.NET 5 yeoman generators for beta 3

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

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

February 25, 2015 Feb 25, 2015 02/25/15
Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT
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 (image) ) but at this point you should be able to start ...

Open sourcing and releasing ASP.NET Identity 2.2.0

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

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