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ASP.NET Community Standup – June 30, 2015
This is the first in a series of blog post that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams to discuss the accomplishments of the team on the new ASP.NET 5 framework over the previous week. Within 30 minutes, Scott Hanselman, Damian Edwards, Jon Galloway and an occasional guest or two discuss new features and ask for feedback on important decisions being made by the ASP.NET development teams. Each week the standup is hosted live on Google Hangouts and the team publishes the recorded video of...
ASP.NET 5 Beta5 Now Available
This week we released ASP.NET 5 Beta5 as an in-place update to Visual Studio 2015 RC on http://nuget.org! The version that shipped with VS2015RC was Beta4 so you’ll definitely want toget this update. ASP.NET 5 Beta5 is loaded with lots of new features, improvements, and bug fixes. It’s important to remember that there’s the ASP.NET runtime (the bits that run your web apps) and there is the Web Tooling bits for Visual Studio (the bits that give you the HTML and JavaScript editor and the File New Dialog Box). Beta5 is an update to the ASP.NET 5 runtime! Remember that ASP.NET 5 runs on both the ful...
Cool ASP.NET Web Forms Features in 2015 – Async Model Binding
This is the first in a twice weekly series of blog posts that we’re going to share from the Microsoft Web Development blog to showcase some of the really cool and mature features available in ASP.NET Web Forms for developers to use in their projects. Web Forms is the development model that was deployed first with ASP.NET in 2001, and has been improved in every ASP.NET release since. Throughout this series of posts, we will build a sample application to track our travel information. Each update will provide a link to the source code so that you can follow along. In this first post, we’re going to look at the...
NuGet.org server status
For the last few weeks we have experienced a few hours of downtime a few times a week. The NuGet community was very engaged in sharing the issues both on Twitter, support@nuget.org, personal emails, and GitHub. We thank you for that and appreciate your patience. We realize NuGet.org is a center to many of the day to day activities of a .NET developer. It is critical and we are working hard to make it better. We promised to get back to you with an update, here it goes. NuGet.org state - early May 2015. NuGet.org was initially built about four years ago on top of a SQL database and OData services and NuGet.org ...
NuGet 3.0 RC 2 Released
In the month since the Visual Studio 2015 RC release, we have heard from many of you with compliments, complaints, and bug reports. The NuGet team is happy to hear about all of the experiences you've had with our add-in for Visual Studio. The team has been hard at work preparing for the final release of Visual Studio, and would like to issue an update to the Visual Studio extension to ensure that we have ironed out some of the issues you may have run into. You can also get a copy of the extension from Codeplex at https://nuget.codeplex.com/releases/view/615507. Feature Tuning We did not want to add any new feat...
Save the day with a Visual Basic, C#, or F# T-Shirt!
Mads and Dustin showed off these stylish little numbers at BUILD and ever since we've been getting pinged by community members wanting to know where they can get their very own so they too can show their passion for their favorite programming language(s). Who wouldn't want to look this awesome? These were originally team t-shirts from years ago and every time one of us wears one of them out at a talk or a conference without fail you let us know how much you'd love to get your hands on one. Finally Visual Basic MVP Jim Wooley shot me a tweet saying "Just put it on CafePress.com already!". Great idea, Jim! We act...
Application Insights for ASP.NET 5 – you’re in control
ASP.NET 5 apps can now be monitored for performance and usage with Visual Studio Application Insights. The composability of components in ASP.NET 5 makes it very easy to integrate telemetry modules into your app design in a flexible way. With the feedback you get about the performance and effectiveness of your app in the wild, you can make informed choices about the direction of the design in each development lifecycle. ASP.NET 5 is a lean framework for building web and cloud applications. Dependency injection is one of the biggest architectural improvements over previous versions, allowing components to be mu...
May 2015 .NET Security Updates
The .NET team released two security bulletins today as part of the monthly "Update Tuesday" cycle. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS15-044 - Critical, Vulnerability in .NET Framework Could Allow Remote Code Execution (3057110) This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft .NET Framework. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted document or visits an untrusted webpage that contains embedded TrueType fonts.This security update is rated Critical for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Service Pack 2, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, M...
Targeting the .NET Framework 4.6 RC
Update (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. The .NET Framework 4.6 is the latest version of the .NET Framework. The .NET Framework 4.6 exposes new APIs that you can use in your app or library. You can also use it to run existing apps. Using Visual Studio 2015 You can target the .NET Framework 4.6 using Visual Studio 2015. Visual Studio 2015 targets the .NET Framework 4.5.2 by default, since the .NET Framework 4.5.2 has been deployed broadly (globally). Targeting the .NET Framework 4.5.2 is the best choice, unless you specifically need the new APIs in the .NET Framework 4.6. Y...