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Announcing Microsoft.ASPNET.Facebook 1.1 RTM
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The NuGet packages for Microsoft.ASPNET.Facebook 1.1 are now live on the NuGet gallery!Download this releaseYou can install or update the NuGet packages for Microsoft.ASPNET.Facebook 1.1 using the NuGet Package Manager Console, like this: What’s in this release?In this release, we enabled better support for the Safari browser and added a new feature that gives developers the ability to add custom logic for browsers that do not have cookies enabled. You can find detailed explanation for the new features here. The Visual Studio template that uses this updated package will be released soon. The Visual Studi...
_references.js file’s auto sync feature
In VS2013 RTM, we shipped a not well known feature for _references.js file: /// <autosync enabled="true" />. If we specify /// <autosync enabled="true" /> in the beginning of ~/scripts/_references.js, then any addition, rename, deletion of JavaScript files in the project will automatically change the content in this file. You can disable this feature by removing the line or put assign false to enabled attribute. For example, create a new MVC project, open scripts/_references.js file and you will see the following if you are using VS2013 with update 3. Drag and drop bootstrap....
NuGet : Broken By Design
On January 13, 2011, NuGet 1.0 was released with ASP.NET MVC 3. On June 19, 2012, NuGet 2.0 shipped in the box with all editions of Visual Studio 2012 (including the free ones). That was a little over 2 years ago, and NuGet's adoption has been steadily increasing since then. Here are some interesting figures for recent NuGet usage from nuget.org: The NuGet is team quite happy with the adoption we've seen. But at almost 4 years old, NuGet is starting to show its age and some even claim that "NuGet is broken." Reasons for Success Before we delve into the ways in which NuGet can be co...
Visual Studio Tooling Guidance
As NuGet continues to gain momentum, more Microsoft teams have been seeking to install NuGet packages from their Visual Studio tooling. This began with ASP.NET, where NuGet was born, when project templates started coming with pre-installed NuGet packages. More recently, we've heard of teams all across Microsoft with tooling gestures that result in NuGet packages being installed. We have some guidance we give these teams, but some have questioned our guidance. We're here to ask if you agree with us or if you think we should adapt to meet the expectations of these other teams. Installing Packages From nuget.org ...
Where can you meet the team? November 2014 at AngleBrackets and TechEd
We on the Web Tools team love hanging out with the community. We thought it would be cool to start sharing exactly where we will be and what conferences or user groups you can join us at!The .NET Developer Blog has a great always updated list of .NET User Groups, so be sure to bookmark that also!We’ve got two big events coming up soon, and there is still time to register! We’ll post to the this blog each month with our list of exciting events. Make sure you’ve subscribed!
Announcing October 2014 Updates to .NET Framework vNext, ASP.NET vNext and .NET Native in Visual Studio “14” CTP4
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. Today, we are announcing updates to the .NET Framework vNext, ASP.NET vNext and .NET Native. These are all available in Visual Studio “14” CTP4. This .NET Framework release contains RyuJIT, the next generation X64 JIT. ASP.NET vNext contains major improvements in the runtime and Visual Studio Experience. Additionally, .NET Native contains a small set of fixes for reported issues. Please download these .NET releases with Visual Studio “14” CTP4 and give us feedback. .NET Framework vNext Today’s release of .NET Framework vNext adds RyuJIT a...
ASP.NET vNext in Visual Studio “14” CTP 4
Today we released updates for ASP.NET vNext in Visual Studio “14” CTP 4. This release includes the ASP.NET vNext runtime and tooling improvements as outlined below. ASP.NET vNext Runtime This CTP includes our alpha4 runtime packages for ASP.NET vNext. You can find details on the specific enhancements added and issues fixed in the published release notes on GitHub. For information on how to get started with ASP.NET vNext using Visual Studio “14” check out the article Getting Started with ASP.NET vNext and Visual Studio "14". The MVC Music Store and Bug Tracker sample projects have been ...
Discontinuing Updates for Visual Studio 2010
As we work on some big changes for NuGet 3.x, we're finding that we're at a crossroads: Should we use .NET 4.5 and improve our Visual Studio UI using new features available in Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2013, and Visual Studio "14"; or should we retain support for Visual Studio 2010? Visual Studio 2010 has been supported since NuGet's introduction. But supporting it prevents us from using .NET 4.5 and since it has different visual styling from the newer versions of Visual Studio, it's holding us back on some of our new UI. Visual Studio 2010 Usage In July 2013, we started capturing what version of Visua...
Target Framework Filtering and a Pending Breaking Change
Have you ever seen this error before? Doesn't it make you want to yell and scream at NuGet, "Why did you just show it to me if I couldn't install it!?‽" Yeah, it makes us want to yell and scream too, so we decided to set about fixing it! Along with that, we've also discovered a bug we want to correct but unfortunately, it's a breaking change so we wanted to get your feedback and do it in NuGet 3.0. Target Framework Filtering in Search We are deploying a change to make the nuget.org Search API filter out packages (and versions of packages) that are incompatible with the framework your project targets. This m...