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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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Dialog box may be displayed to users when opening projects in Microsoft Visual Studio after installation of Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6
After the installation of the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6, users may experience the following dialog box displayed in Microsoft Visual Studio when either creating new Web Site or Windows Azure project or when opening existing projects.Configuring Web http://localhost:64886/ for ASP.NET 4.5 failed. You must manually configure this site for ASP.NET 4.5 in order for the site to run correctly. ASP.NET 4.0 has not been registered on the Web server. You need to manually configure your Web server for ASP.NET 4.0 in order for your site to run correctly.NOTE: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6 may also be referred to as Micros...
November 2014 .NET Security Updates
The .NET team released a security bulletin today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-072 - Important, Vulnerability in .NET Framework Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (3005210) This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Framework. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker sends specially crafted data to an affected workstation or server that uses .NET Remoting. Only custom applications that have been specifically designed to use .NET Remoting would expose a system to the vulnerability...
November 2014 .NET Security Updates
The .NET team released a security bulletin today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-072 - Important, Vulnerability in .NET Framework Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (3005210) This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Framework. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker sends specially crafted data to an affected workstation or server that uses .NET Remoting. Only custom applications that have been specifically designed to use .NET Remoting would expose a system to the vulnerability...
Where can you meet the team? November 2014 at AngleBrackets and Connect();
We’ve got two big events coming up next week. AngleBracketsNov 10th-13th in Vegas is an exciting open-source web conference that’s collocated with DevIntersections. That means you can register for one and attend both! Come see Scotts Hanselman and Scott Guthrie, along with web tooling PM Mads Kristensen and Mohit Srivastava , and industry luminaries like Kathleen Dollard and K. Scott Allen!Connect();Starting on Wednesday, November 12, join industry leaders Scott Guthrie, S. "Soma" Somasegar, Brian Harry, and Scott Hanselman live from New York as they share insights about new technologies and...
Using System.Numerics.Vector for Graphics Programming
We've just released a major update to the SIMD vector types we've blogged about earlier (first announcement, second update). We've now made the vector library a lot more more useful for typical graphics operations. We added matrix types, a plane type, and a quaternion type. We've also added many methods that are often used on fixed size vectors, such as , , , and . We also completed our SIMD support for primitive types by adding support for and . Getting the new bits In order to try out the update, you'll need the following components: Changes in this release The first thing you'll notice is that w...
ASP.NET MVC Security Bulletin MS14-059 ships to help secure .NET NuGet Libraries
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-059 – Important: Vulnerability in ASP.NET MVC Could Allow Security Feature Bypass (2990942) This is the first release from Microsoft that uses Security Updates for .NET NuGet Libraries Support. This feature enables Microsoft to update app-deployed .NET NuGet libraries, for machines with the .NET Framework 4.5.1 or later version installed. This security bulletin was released on 10/14/2014 as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday”. This security update is rated “Important” for the ASP.NET MVC 2.0, ASP.NET MVC 3.0, ASP.NET MVC 4.0, ASP.NET MVC 5.0, and AS...
ASP.NET Identity 2.2.0-alpha1
We are releasing a preview of ASP.NET Identity 2.2.0-alpha1. The main focus in this release was to fix bugs and address performance issues.Download this releaseYou 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 2.2.0-alpha1 -pre Install-Package Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.Core -Version 2.2.0-alpha1 -preInstall-Package Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.OWIN -Version 2.2.0-alpha1 –preWhat’s in this release?Following query has the list of ...
Package Manifests
As we work on the designs for getting NuGet in the platform, it has become clear that NuGet needs better support for carrying arbitrary artifacts in packages and exposing them for consumption after the initial package installation. Conventional Manifests Since NuGet's initial release, it has supported conventional manifests and only a few concepts. All other files inside the package are completely ignored and NuGet's existing design makes it difficult to expand on these concepts or introduce new ones. Before we dive into where we think NuGet is going, let's look closer at what NuGet supports today wit...
Microsoft Asp.Net MVC Security Update MS14-059 broke my build!
Microsoft just released a new security update to be automatically applied to machines configured to use Microsoft Update. The security bulletin is available here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms14-059Unfortunately, some ASP.NET MVC 3 and 4 VS projects can no longer build after the update is applied. These projects will fail with the following error: Could not locate the assembly "System.Web.Mvc,Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35,processorArchitecture=MSIL".This happens when your project references assemblies from the GAC or the Reference Assemblies...