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The .NET Framework 4.5.1 is available on Windows Update and WSUS
Update (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is unsupported. We are happy to announce that the .NET Framework 4.5.1 and its language packs are now available via Windows Update (WU) and WSUS. You can learn more about the release from the What's new in the .NET Framework 4.5.1 topic. This update is available in the Windows Update applet within the Control Panel. You may need to use the Check for updates feature from within the Windows Update applet to get the release to show up. Automatic Updates The .NET Framework 4.5.1 release is being made available as a Recommended U...
Release Candidates for ASP.NET MVC 5.1, Web API 2.1 and Web Page 3.1.
Today we shipped release candidates for ASP.NET MVC 5.1, ASP.NET Web Pages 3.1 and Web API 2.1 to the NuGet gallery. In this release we are previewing some of the runtime features in ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.2, which will include a broader set of updates to ASP.NET SignalR, ASP.NET Identity, Entity Framework, and the Microsoft OWIN Components as well as tooling updates to the Web Editors, Browser Link, Scaffolding, NuGet and Windows Azure WebSite publishing. We will be previewing all of these features along the way before all of the features are released. Download this release You can download the release can...
NuGet Governance Model
Over the last couple of years, we've had the chance to meet with many individuals who both use and contribute to NuGet. One of the questions that has come up on more than one occasion pertains to how decisions get made for NuGet, especially decisions around which features are included in NuGet releases. This is an understandable question, especially since the NuGet core team consists of Microsoft employees. In order to provide more transparency around both the decision making structure and the different project contribution levels, we've published our governance document on docs.nuget.org. Please take a look and...
Use your Microsoft account to log in to NuGet.org!
Starting today you can use your Microsoft account to log in to NuGet.org. I don't know about you, but I want as few passwords as possible, so any opportunity to get rid of a password is great. Now, your NuGet.org password doesn't have to be one of those many passwords you have to forget/lose/etc. To associate a Microsoft account with an existing account, make sure you're signed out of NuGet.org and then click the sign-in link at the top right of the page. On this page, click the new "Sign in with a Microsoft account" button: Sign in to your Microsoft account and grant us permission to use your account. If you...
Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.EventSource is now RC on NuGet.org
We are announcing the RC of the EventSource NuGet package, which enables fast app tracing to the Windows Event Log, including in production. This post was written by Cosmin Radu, a software developer on the .NET Runtime team. Over the past several months we’ve been working on addressing feedback and extending the value proposition delivered by the EventSource NuGet release. Today I’m happy to announce the RC release of the EventSource package, and its new companion package EventRegister. So, what’s new in RC? Here’s a summary of the changes we’ve made: EventSource build-t...
Instant Azure Caching with MVC
Warning. This is obsolete, see my new blog MVC movie app with Azure Redis Cache in 15 minutes Warning: Most of the information in this blog is for the Preview edition and should not be used or targeted for production code. Use the In-Role Cache for production code. In this blog post I’ll take my MVC Movie app and in 15 minutes connect it to the preview Windows Azure Cache service. The image below shows the details of a movie along with timing data (1.4 milliseconds), cache status (Hit in this case) and the PID of the IIS server. You can download the completed app here. Later in the tutorial we’ll use the P...
Modified ASP.NET 4.5 CPU Throttling
The Security and Quality Rollup is available via Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services, and Microsoft Update Catalog.
Opening Files from SkyDrive using .NET
Since Windows 8 I fell in love with SkyDrive and use it all the time now. Windows 8.1 has improved this a lot by introducing a new concept that requires some changes to the way you interact with files. In, this post Gaye Oncul Kok, Program Manager on the .NET Framework team, explains the key things .NET developers need to know when they read and write files stored on SkyDrive. SkyDrive for Windows 8.1 introduced a new technology, called smart files, which gives access to the files in the cloud by providing their content on demand. The technology was designed to minimize the disk space utilization on your Windows ...
Building Browser Link extension in Visual Studio 2013
Browser Link feature in Visual Studio 2013 provides APIs for you to write your own Browser Link Extension. To take a look at some of the extensions, you can download Web Essentials for Visual Studio 2013 RTM. In this blog, I will give you a step by step overview of the various APIs that we provide. You will need the following to start with: Once you have installed all of the above, you can get started: **Step 1: ** Go to File –>New-> Visual C# –> Extensibility and select Browser Link Extension as shown in the image below. Click OK, to create MyBrowserLinkProject. The browser link project wi...