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Fix SPA VB project creating issue for ASP.NET and Web Tools Preview Refresh for Visual Studio 2013 Preview
Issue Unfortunately after installing ASP.NET and Web Tools Preview Refresh for Visual Studio 2013 Preview, creating SPA VB template will fail. This post describes how to fix this issue. Option 1: Fix script I authored these two scripts (one for x86 and x64) to fix the issue. Download here Note: Option 2: Manually fix If for some reason you can’t run the scripts, you can fix the issue by altering template files.
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-walkthrough.aspx or http://www.asp.net/mvc/overview/getting-started/custom-mvc-templates. But the created template VSIX file cannot be uploaded to VS Gallery at the time. Starting 6/26/2013, you can upload the MVC4 template VSIX files to VS Gallery now.The VS2012.2 created VSIX may not install or work for Visual Studio 2013 preview, however. We need to fix a few thing in the following steps.1. Change source.extension.vsixmanifest file InstallationTarg...
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 Visual Studio. This feature is enabled by default in Visual Studio 2013 Preview. When Browser Link is enabled we register an HTTPModule with ASP.NET, which will then inject a <script> reference to every page request from the server. It is this JavaScript that does the magic of connecting the browser to Visual Studio. For Preview, we have a feature called the “Refresh Linked Browsers” that makes use of this channel between browsers and IDE. Because the b...
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 makes it easy to customize data about the logged in user. [Update] Please visit ASP.NET Identity for getting the latest information about ASP.NET Identity project and learning more on how to get started and migrate from earlier membership systems. Features Following are some of the feature of the ASP.NET Identity system How do I get it? ASP.NET Identity is used by ASP.NET Web Fo...
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 .NET apps, as we mentioned last year on the .NET blog. We recently redesigned the pages and added more SDKs for you to download. You may even find some SDKs to try that you didn’t know about. If you really just want the latest bits, use the following links: We've provided a separate page for each version of Visual Studio, since each version has a different set of capabilities: You can now quickly get to the .NET download tha...
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 highlights how you can turn on support for logging through these services in the ASP.NET project templates that shipped with Visual Studio 2013 Preview. To learn more about how authentication via external providers works, please read the following article. http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/security/external-authentication-services#USING Enable OAuth login using Facebook, Twitter Steps to get keys for Facebook Steps t...
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 a little complicated, so this article will do its best to simplify the matter. Visual Studio 2012 included a brand new CSS editor, implemented entirely in managed code and highly extensible through MEF. This allowed the development of the Web Essentials extension, which greatly extended the feature set of CSS but which is rev’ed independently in a rapid cadence. Unfortunately, the HTML editor’s architecture remained dated and could not be ext...
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 authentication. In this post I will describe; how you can get the additional support, where to find more info and a list of known issues. How to get the latest support In order to try out the latest support you will need to first download and install Visual Studio 2013 Preview. After installing this to get the latest features for Windows Azure AD (WAAD) you will need to install ASP.NET and Web Tools Preview Refresh (Supports English version of VS2013 Pr...
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 Tools Refresh for Visual Studio 2013 Preview. This refresh update is a free download for Visual Studio 2013 Preview, and contains a few bug fixes, updated templates and Scaffolding for both ASP.NET and Visual Studio. Click here to download and install the Visual Studio 2013 Preview today. If you have the English version of VS2013 preview, you can also install the ASP.NET and Web Tools Refresh (Do not install this on non-English VS2013 Preview). Plea...