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.NET Aspire 9.3 is the biggest release of .NET Aspire yet, with the introduction of GitHub Copilot directly into the .NET Aspire Dashboard, updates for integrat...
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A new look for .NET Reference Source
This post was written by Alok Shriram, Program Manager on the .NET Framework team. He will show you a significantly improved experience around .NET Reference Source. Today I'm very excited to announce that we have an awesome new experience to use the .NET Framework reference source. Browsing .NET Reference Source First of all, most people just want to look at code. So we've added a brand new source browsing experience. For a tutorial, checkout our Channel 9 video: This new browsing experience provides the following features: We generated this site using Project Roslyn, our new C# and VB com...
Using Claims in your Web App is Easier with the new OWIN Security Components
Hello everybody! My name is Vittorio Bertocci: I am a program manager in the Windows Azure Active Directory team, where I work on developer experience. In the last few months the ASP.NET and Active Directory teams have been busy collaborating on a new OWIN-based programming model for securing modern ASP.NET applications. Today I have the privilege to announce the first developer preview of the OWIN components that will allow you to secure your ASP.NET applications with Windows Azure AD, ADFS and any other identity provider supporting WS-Federation. Here there’s an image that gives some measure of the improvem...
Adding two-factor authentication to an application using ASP.NET Identity
Introduction We recently released the 2.0.0-beta1 version of ASP.NET Identity. Learn more here by visiting this link. This is an update to 2.0.0-alpha1 and adds two-factor authentication along with a few bug fixes. To learn more about the Alpha release, visit this link. As mentioned in the release article, with the 2.0.0-beta1 version of Identity we have added support for enabling two-factor authentication in an application. Two factor authentication is a 2 step process for authenticating a user. For example, using local account credentials and a secure PIN sent as a text message, or using OAuth login and QR co...
Supplemental to ASP.NET Project “Helios”
This is a supplemental document to my earlier Introducing ASP.NET Project “Helios” post. It contains extra information that might be of interest to the advanced developer but which didn’t make it into the main post. I encourage reading the original post before continuing.On performance and resource consumptionWhen most web developers discuss performance, they’re thinking in terms of requests per second (RPS) throughput. As a rule of thumb, the lower you go in the stack, the more raw throughput you’re able to achieve. An application that opens a raw socket to listen for an...
Introducing ASP.NET Project “Helios”
In late 2013 we made available a prerelease NuGet package which allows running a managed web application directly on top of IIS without going through the normal ASP.NET (System.Web) request processing pipeline. This was a relatively quiet event without too much fanfare. At last month’s MVA Windows Azure Deep Dive, we spoke about this for the first time publicly to a global audience. Today, I’d like to give a formal introduction to ASP.NET Project “Helios”. This post will talk about why we’re introducing this project, what we hope to accomplish with it, and how this might fit in to our ecosystem moving forward. ...
February 2014 .NET Updates
As part of our continued effort to bring greater transparency for our customers we are going to start posting here whenever we ship any security fixes for the .NET Framework, this is the first such post.The .NET team released a security bulletin earlier this week as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle.Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-009 - Important, Vulnerabilities in .NET Framework Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2916607)This security update resolves two publicly disclosed vulnerabilities and one privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Framework. The most severe vulnerability co...
Per request lifetime management for UserManager class in ASP.NET Identity
Introduction We recently released the 2.0.0-beta1 version of ASP.NET Identity. Learn more here by visiting this link. This is an update to 2.0.0-alpha1 and adds the two-factor auth feature along with a few bug fixes. To learn more about the Alpha release, please visit this link. In this article I am going to explain the significance of the UserManager class in an application and some of the best practices when using it. I am going to use an MVC application that is created using VS 2013 RTM. In the Visual Studio 2013 RTM templates, which had the 1.0.0 version of ASP.NET Identity, we demonstrated directly instant...
Explore the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.1 in MSDN Magazine
The February 2014 edition of MSDN magazine includes a great overview of the .NET Framework 4.5.1, written by Gaye Oncul Kok, a Program Manager on the .NET team. The article is a great way to learn about how Visual Studio 2013 and .NET Framework 4.5.1 make apps easier to write, and faster to run. Take a look at the article.
Announcing preview of Dynamic Data provider and EntityDataSource control for Entity Framework 6
Today, we are pleased to announce an update to ASP.NET DynamicData and EntityDataSource control, so that they work with Entity Framework 6.What’s in this preview- DynamicData provider for Entity Framework 6- EntityDataSource control for Entity Framework 6How to install this previewYou can download this preview for ASP.NET DynamicData.EFProvider (http://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.AspNet.DynamicData.EFProvider/) and EntityDataSource (http://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.AspNet.EntityDataSource/) as preview NuGet packages from the NuGet gallery. You can install these pre-release packages through NuGet...