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Customize external web tools in Visual Studio 2015
Visual Studio 2015 ships with multiple open source command line tools that are used in modern web development workflows. Those tools are: All of these tools are shipped as part of Visual Studio but are not installed in the same way as you would install them manually. They are all located in the Visual Studio install directory and are used by some of the new features such as the Task Runner Explorer and the new ASP.NET 5 project system. If you manually install any of these tools, then there will likely be a difference in the versions between what Visual Studio is using and what you are using from the comman...
MSBuild Engine is now Open Source on GitHub
Today we are pleased to announce that MSBuild is now available on GitHub and we are contributing it to the .NET Foundation! The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is a platform for building applications. By invoking msbuild.exe on your project or solution file, you can orchestrate and build products in environments where Visual Studio isn't installed. For instance, MSBuild is used to build the .NET Core Libraries and .NET Core Runtime open source projects. The MSBuild sources we're publishing today are closely aligned with the version we will ship with Visual Studio 2015. You may notice a few differences as this i...
dotnetConf is back, this Wednesday
dotnetConf is a free, 2 day virtual event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft, and it’s this Wednesday! As you can guess by its name, it’s dedicated to your favorite development platform, .NET. Grab a comfortable chair, a pot of your favorite hot (or cold) beverage and a mind to fill with all the latest .NET product and community news. The dotnetConf team has been planning the event for a few months now. We’ve got a great show ready for you. Two Days of Talks This is the 3rd dotnetConf. This time around, we’re using a two-day thematic format, on March 18th and 19th. Check out the dotnetConf agend...
Welcome Back! – The AJAX Control Toolkit March 2015 Update
Welcome Back! - The AJAX Control Toolkit March 2015 Update Its been 15 months since a significant update was released for the AJAX Control Toolkit on CodePlex. In the time since then, our friends at DevExpress have stepped up and offered to lead this open source project. In just a few short months, they have implemented a number of modern and strategic changes to the toolkit to help make it a valuable part of your ASP.NET Web Forms arsenal. This release is branded as version 15.1 and is available NOW from http://devexpress.com/ms-act DevExpress has written a great post highlighting the updates they've made to t...
Updates to ASP.NET 5 yeoman generators for beta 3
Hi everyone, the blog post below is written by Shayne Boyer, who is a community member that has been working on the ASP.NET 5 yeoman generators. I hope you enjoy it. - Sayed With the most recent version of Visual Studio 2015 CTP, CTP 6 this past Monday, there were some great improvements not only in the IDE but also ASP.NET 5. See the article here from Jeff Fritz, or Introducing ASP.NET 5 on Scott Guthrie’s blog, for even more. We have updated the ASP.NET 5 yeoman generators to have the latest content based on ASP.NET 5 beta 3. For more info on getting started with the generators see the two previous blog p...
.NET Core Open Source Update – February 26, 2015
It has been a couple weeks since we last reported on the .NET Core open source project. It's been a very fun time, watching more people get involved in the project and to see progress on a daily basis. It's amazing watching my GitHub news feed. I have to scroll through several page views just to get through the last hour (on a weekday) of corefx, coreclr and roslyn repo activity. Today, we're going to focus on the CoreCLR repo. In addition to the growing community activity, there have been important product improvements that have been committed. Some of the key changes are coming from the community. That's very i...
NuGet 3.0 Beta 2 Released
That was a quick turn-around... we issued our 3.0 beta just a few days ago and our community of developers and supporters quickly found a number of issues with it. Thank you to the early reporters on Twitter and on this blog for helping us to identify those issues. We would like to issue an update to our Visual Studio extension to correct some of the stickier problems that were identified. You can also get a copy of the extension from Codeplex at http://nuget.codeplex.com/downloads/get/1432773. Fixes Addressed Our new protocol delivers NuGet package data in JSON format from the nuget.org server. One issue we ra...
Identity Updates for Web Developers in Visual Studio 2015 CTP6
As anticipated in Monday’s announcement, the CTP release of Visual Studio 2015 brings lots of interesting news to identityland – both in the IDE and in the form of libraries we released on NuGet at the same time. The features are still in preview (some of them, very much so ) but at this point you should be able to start getting a taste of what the product will look like in its final form. In this post I am going to highlight the most interesting identity features you might want to experiment with. New ASP.NET 4.6 Project Templates and Tools (for the ones of you not keeping track, ASP.NET 4.6 == A...
ASP.NET 5 Updates and other improvements for Web Developers in Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6
It's time for another Visual Studio 2015 CTP, and with the CTP 6 release in February 2015 you should find a number of improvements that every web developer will enjoy. In this article we'll review the new features and improvements in ASP.NET 5 and the Visual Studio editor improvements delivered in CTP 6. For a complete list of the ASP.NET 5 runtime improvements check out the release notes on GitHub at https://github.com/aspnet/Home/releases/tag/v1.0.0-beta3. You can download the new Visual Studio CTP 6 from VisualStudio.com. New Project Templates We've organized the New ASP.NET Project dialog a bit....