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Compatibility of .NET Framework 4.5

September 26, 2011 Sep 26, 2011 09/26/11
Brandon Bray
Fundamentals were a big part of our focus while building .NET 4.5. We divided fundamentals into seven areas called “tenets”. One of these tenets is compatibility. Today’s post is by Manish Agnihotri, a program manager who is driving compatibility across the .NET Framework. -- Brandon Editor's update: we've added more ...

Page Inspector for Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview

September 22, 2011 Sep 22, 2011 09/22/11
Web Development Tools Microsoft
The upcoming version of Visual Studio introduces a number of improvements focused on diagnosing your Web Applications. One of these is the new Page Inspector. Page Inspector is a new tool that brings browser diagnostics tools into Visual Studio and provides an integrated experience between the browser, ASP.NET, and source code. Using Page ...

Introducing .NET Framework 4.5

September 21, 2011 Sep 21, 2011 09/21/11
Brandon Bray
Update (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is now unsupported. Last week at the BUILD conference, we had the pleasure of announcing the next version of the .NET Framework and releasing a developer preview at the same time. We have so many new things in .NET 4.5 to discuss with our developer ...

So, what’s new in the CLR 4.5 GC?

September 21, 2011 Sep 21, 2011 09/21/11
maoni
Last time I posted a "So, what's new" entry was when we release 4.0 ~3 years ago (can't believe it's already been that long..). Now I get to talk about what's new in the 4.5 GC. Actually I just talked about this with Channel 9 and here's the link to the video: https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Maoni-Stephens-CLR-45-Server-Background-GC...

New JavaScript editing features for Web development in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview

September 15, 2011 Sep 15, 2011 09/15/11
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview has the JavaScript design time engine rewritten, sharing base with IE's JavaScript engine. It has faster performance and better memory footprint. The list below shows some new feature and changes comparing with Visual Studio 2010 for Web development scenarios. All feedbacks are welcomed as it's our passion ...

New Features for Web Development in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview

September 14, 2011 Sep 14, 2011 09/14/11
Web Development Tools Microsoft
The public release of Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview is now available and can be downloaded. Please visit Jason Zander's Blog for the download links and overview of the new features.We have many great features in the preview. We'll discuss some of them in the future blogs. Scott Guthrie has a blog "ASP.NET vNext Series' which links to the ...

Expected NuGet Downtime – August 22 11pm-12am PDT

August 22, 2011 Aug 22, 2011 08/22/11
Mads Kristensen
As mentioned in a previous post, we’ve been working to address some performance problems on the NuGet Gallery.The fixes we have in place include some time-consuming database migrations. During our dry run deployments, we found that virtually all requests to the database will time out while these migrations are running. We have ...

Running ASP.NET MVC 3 Applications on Azure

August 11, 2011 Aug 11, 2011 08/11/11
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Microsoft recently released the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 1.4 (August 2011) update which includes a new ASP.NET MVC 3 Web Role project template which makes it easier to deploy an MVC 3 application to Azure. Let’s walk through this process end-to-end. Step 1 – Install the tools Step 2...