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Extra Information from OAuth/OpenId Provider

August 22, 2012 Aug 22, 2012 08/22/12

pranav rastogi

When you authenticate a user using the OAuth/OpenId providers, you can request for some extra information about the user if you have granted access for these providers to send this information. For eg if you login using Facebook, you can request information such as Gender, country etc. Each provider has different set of data that you can ...

Announcing the Release of SignalR 0.5.3

August 22, 2012 Aug 22, 2012 08/22/12

Brady Gaster

SignalR 0.5.3 Release Notes The SignalR team has been working long hours in their team room in Building 18 for the past few months adding features, resolving issues, and cranking out code. Today the team has released the 0.5.3 release of SignalR. This post will cover some of the key items in the release and explain how you can make use of ...

Visual Studio project compatibility and VisualStudioVersion

August 21, 2012 Aug 21, 2012 08/21/12

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi

One of the most requested features of Visual Studio 2012 was the ability to open projects in both VS 2012 as well as VS 2010 (requires VS 2010 SP1). In case you haven’t heard we did implement that feature. You may be wondering how we were able to do this and how this may impact you. If you open the .csproj/.vbproj for a Web Project created ...

Getting Started with ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms

August 20, 2012 Aug 20, 2012 08/20/12

Kthnwmn

The best way to learn what’s new in ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms, is to work through the latest tutorial series by Erik Reitan: Getting Started with ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms. The 10 tutorials in the series progressively guide you through building a Web Forms application, which is a simplified example of a store front web site that sells items online...

Releasing Microsoft ASP.NET Universal Providers Core 1.2

August 20, 2012 Aug 20, 2012 08/20/12

pranav rastogi

I hope everyone has been busy downloading Visual Studio 2012 and have started building awesome web applications. We have been busy too during this time.We have just released an update to the version of Universal Providers that shipped with VS2012. Following are the key changes with this release  What should you doThis version of ...

Profile specific web.config transforms and transform preview

August 20, 2012 Aug 20, 2012 08/20/12

Web Development Tools Microsoft

When we released VS2010 we add support for web.config (XDT) transforms during publish/package. Note: From now on I’ll only use the word publish from now on but the full content relates to packaging as well. In the original implementation when you published your web project the web.config file would be transformed by the file web.{...

Links to ASP.NET WebAPI blog posts and Data Access blog posts

August 16, 2012 Aug 16, 2012 08/16/12

Web Development Tools Microsoft

Here are some blog posts about ASP.NET WebAPI that we just released. Here are some ASP.NET Data access blog posts intended for newcomers to ASP.NET. The purpose is basic guidance for making data access choices for ASP.NET application development.  The two SQL Server docs may also be useful to people who have been using ASP.NET but ...

Migration for user accounts from the SqlMembershipProvider to the Universal Providers

August 16, 2012 Aug 16, 2012 08/16/12

Xiaohong Tang

As you know ASP.Net SqlMembershipProvider / SqlRoleProvider only support Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Server Express. There is no support for Microsoft SQL Azure and Microsoft SQL Server Compact. The ASP.NET Universal Providers have been created in order to add support for SQL Azure to be ready for cloud environments like Azure. ...

More info on publish links in Visual Studio 2012

August 15, 2012 Aug 15, 2012 08/15/12

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi

Within the web publishing tools in Visual Studio there are a few places where we point to more resources. For example if you open a VS publish profile (.pubxml) file you will see a link in the comments pointing to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=208121. Note: you can find the VS publish profiles in your web project under Properties\...

Visual Studio 2012 RTW

August 15, 2012 Aug 15, 2012 08/15/12

Web Development Tools Microsoft

Visual Studio 2012 is now released to the web. Please visit Jason Zander’s Blog for detailed announcement. This page lists what’s new in ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio for Web.We are updating the Visual Studio 2010 publish experience as well to align with the features available in Visual Studio 2012 RTW. The bits are inside Windows ...