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Creating a Custom Scaffolder for Visual Studio
With the release of Visual Studio 2013 last October, we introduced the concept of Scaffolding to Web Application projects. Scaffolding is the framework on which code generation for MVC and WebAPI is built. For more information on Scaffolding or the MVC Scaffolders check the following blog post: http://www.asp.net/visual-studio/overview/2013/aspnet-scaffolding-overview. However, the true potential for the scaffolding framework comes from the new extensibility surface released in Update 2. With this new functionality, any VSIX can code against the Scaffolding API surface and have their scaf...
The Next Generation of .NET
At Build 2014 this week, we announced the next generation of .NET. The next generation will focus and deliver on two main themes: Core Innovation and cross-device apps. These themes are a direct result of your feedback, asking for new features in .NET and to make it easier to use .NET for all your apps. At Build 2014, we are releasing: Overview The .NET team has been building new technologies that extend the core capabilities of .NET and fundamentally improve the user experience of your apps. At Build, we’ve announced .NET Native, Next generation JIT and SIMD. Those technologi...
NuGet 2.8.1 Released, April 2nd-3rd Downtime, and the New Search Service
This blog post was planned to be published on April 2nd as the NuGet 2.8.1 release announcement. However, on that same day (also the first day of Build 2014), NuGet.org suffered a severe service interruption. It didn’t seem right to blog about the NuGet 2.8.1 release without also covering the interruption, so we waited a day and combined the posts. NuGet 2.8.1 Released with Windows Phone 8.1 Support Let’s cover the fun stuff first! On April 2nd, we released NuGet 2.8.1 to the Visual Studio Extension Gallery. You can get the updates from within Visual Studio's Extensions and Updates dialog, or directly from the ...
Announcing .NET Native Preview
This post was written by Subramanian Ramaswamy and Andrew Pardoe, Senior Program Managers on the .NET Native team. We’re thrilled to announce the first release of .NET Native. Windows Store apps start up to 60% faster with .NET Native and have a much smaller memory footprint. Our first release is a Developer Preview that allows you to develop and test apps with this new compiler. This preview release of .NET Native offers you the performance of C++ with the productivity of C#. .NET Native enables the best of both worlds! Download the .NET Native developer preview today and tell us what you think. This dev...
Available Now: Preview of Project “Orleans” – Cloud Services at Scale
This post was written by Niklas Gustafsson, Principal Program Manager on the Cloud Platform Tooling Team Today, at Build 2014, we are announcing the preview release of a cloud programming model under the codename “Orleans”. This project originated in Microsoft Research. Project “Orleans” provides a straightforward approach to building distributed high-scale computing applications, without the need to learn and apply complex concurrency or other scaling patterns. It was designed for use in the cloud, and has been used extensively in Microsoft Azure. Project “Orleans” has been used in production at Microsoft sinc...
Available Now: Preview of Project “Orleans” – Cloud Services at Scale
This post was written by Niklas Gustafsson, Principal Program Manager on the Cloud Platform Tooling Team Today, at Build 2014, we are announcing the preview release of a cloud programming model under the codename “Orleans”. This project originated in Microsoft Research. Project “Orleans” provides a straightforward approach to building distributed high-scale computing applications, without the need to learn and apply complex concurrency or other scaling patterns. It was designed for use in the cloud, and has been used extensively in Microsoft Azure. Project “Orleans” has been used in production at Microsoft sinc...
Announcing new web features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC
Today, the Visual Studio team announced the release of RC version of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 . Our team added a few useful features and did some bug fixing in this update to improve the web development experience. This blog will contain all of the features introduced in CTP2 and a few updates. We will have future blogs to talk about some of the features in detail. The release notes contain more details. What’s new since CTP2? We added the following new features in the RC release, which can be seen in details in the corresponding sections. New Sass project item and editor...
Available Now: Preview of Project “Orleans” – Cloud Services at Scale
This post was written by Niklas Gustafsson, Principal Program Manager on the Cloud Platform Tooling Team Today, at Build 2014, we are announcing the preview release of a cloud programming model under the codename “Orleans”. This project originated in Microsoft Research. Project “Orleans” provides a straightforward approach to building distributed high-scale computing applications, without the need to learn and apply complex concurrency or other scaling patterns. It was designed for use in the cloud, and has been used extensively in Microsoft Azure. Project “Orleans” has been used in production at Microsoft sinc...
OWIN security components in ASP.NET: OpenID Connect!
It’s been about a month since we released the first preview of the new claims-based identity programming model in ASP.NET. Yesterday we published a refresh of the preview with lots of improvements in WS-Federation support, and a brand-new feature: OpenID Connect! Thanks for the Feedback The new programming model was very well received, which makes us very happy; however, you were not shy about letting us know which features you wanted us to change and add. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dominick and Poul for their deep involvement and great feedback! Among the main points we heard: ...