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Katana, ASP.NET 5, and bridging the gap

November 14, 2014 Nov 14, 2014 11/14/14
pranav rastogi
This post is for developers that have been using the Microsoft Owin components (e.g. the Katana project) and want to know how it relates to ASP.NET 5.As discussed in Katana’s roadmap, the next major version of Katana is being fully integrated into ASP.NET 5. This integration has resulted in several changes that make Katana v3.0 based ...

.NET Core is Open Source

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14
Immo Landwerth
Today is a huge day for .NET! We’re happy to announce that .NET Core will be open source, including the runtime as well as the framework libraries. This is a natural progression of our open source efforts, which already covers the managed compilers (C#, VB, and F#) as well as ASP.NET: This takes it to the next level by ...

Announcing .NET 2015 Preview: A New Era for .NET

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14
.NET Team
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. Today is a pivotal moment for .NET. With the release of .NET 2015 Preview, we are embarking on a new journey while maintaining our strong commitment ...

The Roadmap for WPF

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14
The WPF Team
When we introduced WPF back in 2006 (.NET 3.0), the response was absolutely phenomenal. Enterprises, ISV’s, and Microsoft Partners have made the technology central to their business, building amazing vertical solutions and mission critical applications for their customers. This momentum carries forward to today – 10% of all newly created ...

New Developer and Debugging Features for Azure WebJobs in Visual Studio

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14
Brady Gaster
With Visual Studio Update 3, the Web Tools Extensions team added a number of great features to make it easier for ASP.NET developers publishing web applications to Azure Websites to enable background processing using Azure WebJobs. Since the Update 3 release, Azure WebJobs has reached general availability, and to coincide with the release of ...

Dialog box may be displayed to users when opening projects in Microsoft Visual Studio after installation of Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6

November 11, 2014 Nov 11, 2014 11/11/14
Xinyang Qiu
After the installation of the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6, users may experience the following dialog box displayed in Microsoft Visual Studio when either creating new Web Site or Windows Azure project or when opening existing projects.Configuring Web http://localhost:64886/ for ASP.NET 4.5 failed. You must manually configure this site for ASP...

November 2014 .NET Security Updates

November 11, 2014 Nov 11, 2014 11/11/14
The .NET Fundamentals Team
The .NET team released a security bulletin today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-072 - Important, Vulnerability in .NET Framework Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (3005210)  This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Framework. The ...

November 2014 .NET Security Updates

November 11, 2014 Nov 11, 2014 11/11/14
The .NET Fundamentals Team
The .NET team released a security bulletin today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-072 - Important, Vulnerability in .NET Framework Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (3005210)  This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Framework. The ...

Where can you meet the team? November 2014 at AngleBrackets and Connect();

November 7, 2014 Nov 7, 2014 11/7/14
Xinyang Qiu
We’ve got two big events coming up next week. AngleBracketsNov 10th-13th in Vegas is an exciting open-source web conference that’s collocated with DevIntersections. That means you can register for one and attend both! Come see Scotts Hanselman and Scott Guthrie, along with web tooling PM Mads Kristensen and Mohit Srivastava ,&...