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With the release of Visual Studio 2013 last October, we introduced the concept of Scaffolding to Web Application projects.  Scaffolding is the framework on which code generation for MVC and WebAPI is built.  For more information on Scaffolding or the MVC Scaffolders check the following blog post: http://www.asp.net/visual-studio/overvi...

At Build 2014 this week, we announced the next generation of .NET. The next generation will focus and deliver on two main themes: Core Innovation and cross-device apps. These themes are a direct result of your feedback, asking for new features in .NET and to make it easier to use .NET for all your apps. At Build 2014, we are releasing: ...

This blog post was planned to be published on April 2nd as the NuGet 2.8.1 release announcement. However, on that same day (also the first day of Build 2014), NuGet.org suffered a severe service interruption. It didn’t seem right to blog about the NuGet 2.8.1 release without also covering the interruption, so we waited a day and combined the posts....

This post was written by Subramanian Ramaswamy and Andrew Pardoe, Senior Program Managers on the .NET Native team. We’re thrilled to announce the first release of .NET Native. Windows Store apps start up to 60% faster with .NET Native and have a much smaller memory footprint. Our first release is a Developer Preview that allows you to develop an...

This post was written by Niklas Gustafsson, Principal Program Manager on the Cloud Platform Tooling Team Today, at Build 2014, we are announcing the preview release of a cloud programming model under the codename “Orleans”. This project originated in Microsoft Research. Project “Orleans” provides a straightforward approach to building distributed ...

Today, the Visual Studio team announced the release of RC version of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 .  Our team added a few useful features and did some bug fixing in this update to improve the web development experience.  This blog will contain all of the features introduced in CTP2 and a few updates. We will have future blogs to talk about...

This post was written by Niklas Gustafsson, Principal Program Manager on the Cloud Platform Tooling Team Today, at Build 2014, we are announcing the preview release of a cloud programming model under the codename “Orleans”. This project originated in Microsoft Research. Project “Orleans” provides a straightforward approach to building distributed ...

This post was written by Niklas Gustafsson, Principal Program Manager on the Cloud Platform Tooling Team Today, at Build 2014, we are announcing the preview release of a cloud programming model under the codename “Orleans”. This project originated in Microsoft Research. Project “Orleans” provides a straightforward approach to building distributed ...

It’s been about a month since we released the first preview of the new claims-based identity programming model in ASP.NET. Yesterday we published a refresh of the preview with lots of improvements in WS-Federation support, and a brand-new feature: OpenID Connect! Thanks for the Feedback The new programming model was very well received, whic...

The NuGet team released an updated NuGet Package Manager extension for WebMatrix on March 26, 2014. This update can be installed from the WebMatrix Extension Gallery using the following steps: Here are the salient points from the release notes. Notable Changes This extension update addresses two of the biggest issues users have faced con...