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.NET Aspire 9.3 is here and enhanced with GitHub Copilot!
.NET Aspire 9.3 is the biggest release of .NET Aspire yet, with the introduction of GitHub Copilot directly into the .NET Aspire Dashboard, updates for integrat...
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A Glimpse into the future of Web Development Tools
There’s some exciting news for the ASP.NET community this week on the Visual Studio blog that we wanted to take a moment to point out. Nik Molnar and Anthony van der Hoorn, the creators of Glimpse, have joined Microsoft on the Visual Studio team! The ASP.NET team have been fans of Glimpse since we first saw it at the Mix 11 Open Source Fest. It’s a great open source debugging and diagnostics tool. Glimpse is similar to the F12 tools built into browsers, but instead it provides insights into server side concerns like route matching, view rendering and database queries. If you’d like to learn more about Gl...
ASP.NET Community Standup – July 7, 2015
This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams covering the accomplishments of the team on the new ASP.NET 5 framework over the previous week. Within 30 minutes, Scott Hanselman, Damian Edwards, Jon Galloway and an occasional guest or two discuss new features and ask for feedback on important decisions being made by the ASP.NET development teams. Each week the standup is hosted live on Google Hangouts and the team publishes the re...
Thank you for your contributions
Since going open source, Roslyn has had 45 and Visual F# has had 29 unique code contributors external to Microsoft. To celebrate and appreciate our first contributors, we sent them each a small gift in the mail: a mug with the classic “cup of tea” language joke as well as the SHA1 of their first commit engraved on the back of the mug. Over the past six months, some of you have received these small tokens of gratitude and some of you have seen evidence of them on Twitter (#roslyn, #fsharp). Every contribution—no matter how great or small—warranted a fun surprise in the mail. We have been a...
ASP.NET Community Standup – June 30, 2015
This is the first in a series of blog post that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams to discuss the accomplishments of the team on the new ASP.NET 5 framework over the previous week. Within 30 minutes, Scott Hanselman, Damian Edwards, Jon Galloway and an occasional guest or two discuss new features and ask for feedback on important decisions being made by the ASP.NET development teams. Each week the standup is hosted live on Google Hangouts and the team publishes the recorded video of...
ASP.NET 5 Beta5 Now Available
This week we released ASP.NET 5 Beta5 as an in-place update to Visual Studio 2015 RC on http://nuget.org! The version that shipped with VS2015RC was Beta4 so you’ll definitely want toget this update. ASP.NET 5 Beta5 is loaded with lots of new features, improvements, and bug fixes. It’s important to remember that there’s the ASP.NET runtime (the bits that run your web apps) and there is the Web Tooling bits for Visual Studio (the bits that give you the HTML and JavaScript editor and the File New Dialog Box). Beta5 is an update to the ASP.NET 5 runtime! Remember that ASP.NET 5 runs on both the ful...
Cool ASP.NET Web Forms Features in 2015 – Async Model Binding
This is the first in a twice weekly series of blog posts that we’re going to share from the Microsoft Web Development blog to showcase some of the really cool and mature features available in ASP.NET Web Forms for developers to use in their projects.  Web Forms is the development model that was deployed first with ASP.NET in 2001, and has been improved in every ASP.NET release since. Throughout this series of posts, we will build a sample application to track our travel information. Each update will provide a link to the source code so that you can follow along. In this first post, we’re going to look at the...
NuGet.org server status
For the last few weeks we have experienced a few hours of downtime a few times a week. The NuGet community was very engaged in sharing the issues both on Twitter, support@nuget.org, personal emails, and GitHub. We thank you for that and appreciate your patience. We realize NuGet.org is a center to many of the day to day activities of a .NET developer. It is critical and we are working hard to make it better. We promised to get back to you with an update, here it goes. NuGet.org state - early May 2015. NuGet.org was initially built about four years ago on top of a SQL database and OData services and NuGet.org ...
NuGet 3.0 RC 2 Released
In the month since the Visual Studio 2015 RC release, we have heard from many of you with compliments, complaints, and bug reports. The NuGet team is happy to hear about all of the experiences you've had with our add-in for Visual Studio. The team has been hard at work preparing for the final release of Visual Studio, and would like to issue an update to the Visual Studio extension to ensure that we have ironed out some of the issues you may have run into. You can also get a copy of the extension from Codeplex at https://nuget.codeplex.com/releases/view/615507. Feature Tuning We did not want to add any new feat...
Save the day with a Visual Basic, C#, or F# T-Shirt!
Mads and Dustin showed off these stylish little numbers at BUILD and ever since we've been getting pinged by community members wanting to know where they can get their very own so they too can show their passion for their favorite programming language(s). Who wouldn't want to look this awesome? These were originally team t-shirts from years ago and every time one of us wears one of them out at a talk or a conference without fail you let us know how much you'd love to get your hands on one. Finally Visual Basic MVP Jim Wooley shot me a tweet saying "Just put it on CafePress.com already!". Great idea, Jim! We act...