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Celebrating the Visual Studio 2012 launch with the release of a popular App

September 12, 2012 Sep 12, 2012 09/12/12
Brandon Bray
Today, we’re happy to announce the launch of Visual Studio 2012 and the .NET Framework 4.5. You can read more about the Visual Studio 2012 launch on Jason Zander’s blog. We’ve been using the new version of Visual Studio for several months now to build .NET Framework apps for Windows, Windows Store, Windows Azure, and Window Server. ...

Integrate OpenAuth/OpenID with your existing ASP.NET application using Universal Providers

September 12, 2012 Sep 12, 2012 09/12/12
pranav rastogi
Over the past couple of weeks I have come across lots of questions/discussions on while OAuth/OpenId is cool as a feature in the ASP.NET templates in Visual Studio 2012, but how do I easily integrate this into my application outside of the templates. More so how do I extend the Universal Providers to integrate OAuth/OpenId and use other ...

Getting Symbols and Source with ASP.NET Nightly NuGet Packages

August 30, 2012 Aug 30, 2012 08/30/12
Henrik F Nielsen
You can now get full symbols and source along with the nightly NuGet packages making it possible to debug the latest MVC, Web API, and Web Pages bits by tracing directly through the source. This is enabled by SymbolSource, which hosts the symbols and source for the nightly NuGet packages, and MyGet which hosts the nightly NuGet feed. Great ...

Evolving the Reflection API

August 28, 2012 Aug 28, 2012 08/28/12
Brandon Bray
As many developers have noticed, the reflection APIs changed in the .NET API set for Windows Store apps. Much of .NET’s ability to offer a consistent programming model to so many platforms over the last ten years has been the result of great architectural thinking. The changes to reflection are here to prepare for the challenges over the ...

List of ASP.NET Web API and HttpClient Samples

August 26, 2012 Aug 26, 2012 08/26/12
Henrik F Nielsen
Here is a list of the Web API and HttpClient samples you can find in our samples repository on aspnet.codeplex.com. They illustrate various features of Web API and HttpClient targeting either Visual Studio 2010 using .NET 4 or Visual Studio 2012 using .NET 4.5 with async/await language support. For details on how get up and running with the ...

Customizing the login UI when using OAuth/OpenID

August 24, 2012 Aug 24, 2012 08/24/12
pranav rastogi
In the last post I showed how you can plug in your own OAuth/OpenID provider. This post shows you how you can pass in extra data about the provider such as display name, image etc and use this information when building up the UI for login screen   If you see the experience of login screen in the ASP.NET templates, it looks like this. (...

NuGet Feed Performance Update

August 24, 2012 Aug 24, 2012 08/24/12
Jeff Handley [MSFT]
As you might know, NuGet has been having some performance (and timeout) related issues recently. Earlier this week, we completed a deployment that helped, but it didn't address everything.Many users are still seeing slow responses or even timeouts when trying to use the ‘Manage NuGet Packages’ dialog in Visual Studio.Ongoing ...

Plugging custom OAuth/OpenID providers

August 23, 2012 Aug 23, 2012 08/23/12
pranav rastogi
In the previous post, I wrote about how you can use the existing providers for Google, Facebook etc. and retrieve extra metadata about the authenticated users. Let’s assume you wanted to change the way the providers request for information. Some examples of this could be This post covers how you can write your own provider and ...

NuGet Gallery Performance Issues

August 22, 2012 Aug 22, 2012 08/22/12
Mads Kristensen
Since August 16th, and especially since August 21st, the NuGet Gallery has been exhbiting intermittent performance issues. Some users are reporting errors when attempting to browse or search for NuGet packages from Visual Studio or other clients. Many users are reporting that browsing and searching are slow. There have also been timeout errors...

Web Deploy (MSDeploy) how to sync a folder

August 22, 2012 Aug 22, 2012 08/22/12
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
Today I saw the following question on StackOverflow MSDeploy - Deploying Contents of a Folder to a Remote IIS Server and decided to write this post to answer the question. Web Deploy (aka MSDeploy) uses a provider model and there are a good number of providers available out of the box. To give you an example of some of the providers; when ...