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Make VS2012 MVC4 VSIX template to work for Visual Studio 2013 preview
Visual Studio 2012.2 supports customized MVC4 template, you can get a walkthrough here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/yjhong/archive/2012/12/13/custom-mvc-4-template-...
Browser Link feature in Visual Studio Preview 2013
Browser Link is just a channel between your Visual Studio IDE and any open browser. This will allow dynamic data exchange between your web application and ...
Introducing ASP.NET Identity – A membership system for ASP.NET applications
ASP.NET Identity is the new membership system for building ASP.NET web applications. ASP.NET Identity allows you to add login features to your application and ...
Get the latest .NET Bits
We maintain a set of pages that make it easier for you to find all the .NET Framework versions, SDKs, and targeting packs that you can take advantage of in your...
Adding External Logins to your ASP.NET application in Visual Studio 2013
The project templates showcase a way of logging in with external login providers, along with the normal way of logging in by creating a local account This post...
HTML Editing Features in Visual Studio 2013 Preview
The Preview Release of Visual Studio 2013 contains a surprising addition: a brand new HTML editor! In fact, VS 2013 contains two HTML editors. The story’s...
ASP.NET updates to support Windows Azure Active Directory
Today we released an update to the Visual Studio **2013 Preview **which enables you to create ASP.NET applications which use Windows Azure Active Directory for ...
Announcing release of ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Preview and the refresh update
I’m excited to show the new features of the ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Preview. I’m also announcing the release of ASP.NET and Web...
Announcing the .NET Framework 4.5.1 Preview
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is unsupported. Updated (July 2015): See Announcing .NET Framework ...