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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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Making It Better: ASP.NET with Visual Basic 14
BASIC is part of the DNA of Microsoft, and we have continued to evolve the language for most of the 40 years of the company’s existence. In the next evolution of the language, Visual Basic 14, there are a number of great features that are being added and we want to make sure that you know we are fully supporting them with ASP.NET in Visual Studio 2015. Let’s take a look at a few samples of how using Visual Basic with ASP.NET 4.6 makes developers more productive and their code more readable. String Interpolation Makes Web Forms Strings Feel like Razor Syntax String formatting with Visual Basic is usua...
April 2015 .NET Security Updates
The .NET team released a security bulletin today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS15-041 - Important, Vulnerability in .NET Framework Could Allow Information Disclosure (3048010) This update resolves a vulnerability in the Microsoft .NET Framework that could allow information disclosure if an attacker sends a specially crafted web request to an affected server that has custom error messages disabled. An attacker who successfully exploits the vulnerability would be able to view parts of a web configuration file that could expose sensitive information. ...
ASP.NET Identity 2.2.1
We are releasing ASP.NET Identity 2.2.1. The main focus in this release was to fix issues reported in 2.2.0 release. Download this release You can download ASP.NET Identity from the NuGet gallery. You can install or update these packages using the NuGet Package Manager Console, like this: Install-Package Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework –Version 2.2.1 Install-Package Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.Core -Version 2.2.1 Install-Package Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.OWIN -Version 2.2.1 What’s in this release? The following issues from CodePlex were fixed in this release: Samp...
A Journey Through Open Source: The Trials & Triumphs in Roslyn’s First Year of Open Source
This post is written by Kasey Uhlenhuth a Program Manager on the Managed Languages Team. "I am looking for someone to share in an adventure." — Gandalf, The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien On April 3, 2014, Anders Hejlsberg set us on our open source journey when he made the .NET Compiler Platform (aka “Roslyn”) source code public live on stage in San Francisco. Without much open source experience to guide us (or a Grey Wizard), we anxiously yet excitedly hit the open roads. This post details the real and true story of the trials and triumphs we’ve experienced in Roslyn’s first year of open source. The Ca...
NuGet 2.8.5 Released
In the last few weeks we saw a significant change in the NuGet ecosystem with the renaming of the K utilities and framework monikers to DNX. To support that change and provide backwards compatibility for existing versions of Visual Studio, we are publishing an update to NuGet extensions for Visual Studio 2010, 2012, and 2013. This update does not work with Visual Studio 2015 and is an update for existing 2.x NuGet extensions only. A copy of the release notes are available online. Download the NuGet 2.8.5 update now Framework Monikers Added To allow packages that also target older versions of the .NET framework...
Introducing Azure API Apps
As part of the Azure SDK 2.5.1 release, a new feature called Azure API Apps were included. This new feature raises the capabilities of ASP.NET Web API, extending it with Swagger metadata while providing a simple to manage interface in the Azure Portal. Extend your API with authentication and no code changes, or generate an SDK for your API with a few clicks. A full definition of API Apps and their capabilities is available in the online Azure documentation. Video coverage of the API Apps announcement with Scott Guthrie is available online: Let’s take a quick look at some concepts, with links to more informati...
Prism grows up
It's been over seven years since the Prism project started, led by the patterns & practices team. It was originally known as the Composite Application Library. Last year, we celebrated our 5th official release of Prism. The two major focuses of that release were: composability and ease of community contribution. From the beginning, Prism has had a strong community focus. This hasn't simply been a matter of surveys and user studies, but frequent discussions and regular code reviews with community members and industry experts. Now it's time to take Prism to the next level. We are very pleased to announce that...
Prism grows up
It's been over seven years since the Prism project started, led by the patterns & practices team. It was originally known as the Composite Application Library. Last year, we celebrated our 5th official release of Prism. The two major focuses of that release were: composability and ease of community contribution. From the beginning, Prism has had a strong community focus. This hasn't simply been a matter of surveys and user studies, but frequent discussions and regular code reviews with community members and industry experts. Now it's time to take Prism to the next level. We are very pleased to announce ...
Prism grows up
It's been over seven years since the Prism project started, led by the patterns & practices team. It was originally known as the Composite Application Library. Last year, we celebrated our 5th official release of Prism. The two major focuses of that release were: composability and ease of community contribution. From the beginning, Prism has had a strong community focus. This hasn't simply been a matter of surveys and user studies, but frequent discussions and regular code reviews with community members and industry experts. Now it's time to take Prism to the next level. We are very pleased to announce ...