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Web Publish how to automate multi-project publish with file system
The other day I received an email from a customer with a question which I’ve summarized as below. I have a solution containing multiple web projects. One of the projects, _RootSite, is the top level website which I want to publish. It’s an MVC project. I also have other web projects in the same solution. These other projects are apps themselves but being published under _RootSite as an area. In some cases I’d like to publish my entire site, in other cases just the areas. Sometimes when I publish an area I need to refresh the assembly for _RootSite. How can I automate this with the most flexibility? I am pu...
Organizational Accounts in Visual Studio 2013 RC
Visual Studio 2013 Preview shipped with support to create new ASP.NET projects that can be easily configured with organizational accounts. This support has been simplified and enhanced in this RC version. You can find a detailed step-by-step tutorial on creating an ASP.NET MVC project with single organizational identity at Developing ASP.NET Apps with Windows Azure Active Directory.The biggest change in this release is the addition of support for configuring ASP.NET WebAPI project with Windows Azure Active Directory identity. For more information on changes done in RC release, you can look at What’s New for...
Understanding Security Features in the SPA Template for VS2013 RC
The blog is based on Visual Studio 2013 RC release. We have completely rewritten the SPA template from the previous version( MVC 4). Here are some of the changes we made: Note that SPA VB template is still not available in this RC release. We will ship it with RTM release. In this blog, I will focus on the security features in SPA template. Bearer Token Authentication with Web API This is one of the most asked for features in Web API. In the SPA template, we implemented this feature with OWIN security middleware. In order to use OWIN bearer token middle...
How to use XDT in NuGet – Examples and Facts
Starting with NuGet 2.6, XML-Document-Transform (XDT) is supported to transform XML files inside a project. The XDT syntax can be utilized in the .install.xdt and .uninstall.xdt file(s) under the package's Content folder, which will be applied during package installation and uninstallation time, respectively. One of XDT’s greatest strengths is its simple but powerful syntax for manipulating the structure of an XML DOM. Rather than simply overlaying one fixed document structure onto another structure, XDT provides controls for matching elements in a variety of ways, from simple attribute name matching to full XPa...
Scaffolding asynchronous MVC and Web API controllers for Entity Framework 6
Brief Entity Framework 6 introduces support for the .NET 4.5 asynchronous programming pattern using the async and await keywords. And in Visual Studio 2013 RC we’re making it easier for you to take advantage of this new capability by optionally generating asynchronous code when you scaffold MVC and Web API controllers. Why First thing first. Why would you build an asynchronous controller? Well, asynchronous programming is an important part of building scalable, robust, and responsive web applications. A web server has a limited number of threads available, and in high load situation all of the avai...
Immutable collections are now RC
Over the past several months, we’ve been working on a new set of collection types that offer an immutable design. Today we are happy to announce that we are one step closer to a stable version of this work: we’ve just shipped the release candidate (1.0.23 RC) of the Microsoft.Bcl.Immutable NuGet package. Because we could: an immutable representation of our release timeline What has changed in RC? The changes in this update can be summarized into the following areas: I’ll discuss these areas in more detail. removed for now After careful consideration we decided to remove f...
Visual Studio 2013 Custom Web Servers and OwinHost.exe
When running Web applications from within Visual Studio, there have generally been two primary hosts available while developing: a local “development” Web server, or a full version of Internet Information Services (IIS). There has also been a “custom server” option, where a path to a server executable could be entered; however, this was not a widely used option given that most Web applications were built for the ASP.NET pipeline running in some flavor of IIS anyway. With Visual Studio 2013, ASP.NET will include a new way to compose and host Web applications. In this new model, ASP.NET will shift from a monolithi...
Creating New Windows Azure Web Site from Visual Studio 2013 RC
We are now making it easier to create a new Windows Azure Web Site from Visual Studio 2013 RC. This feature can be accessed from the Web Sites sub node under the Windows Azure node in Server Explorer. You would need to install Azure SDK 2.1 before you can use this feature. You can follow these steps to create a new Windows Azure Web Site. 1. Import your Windows Azure subscription. You can do this by right-clicking on the Windows Azure top node in Server Explorer, then select Import Subscriptions…. Find your Windows Azure subscription file and click Import. If you don’t have your subscription file ye...
What is new in Browser Link with Visual Studio 2013 RC?
Over the last few months, the Browser Link team has worked on delivering these new features in the Visual Studio 2013 RC release: For those who are not familiar with Browser Link, please look at our introductory blog here. Browser Link Dashboard The Browser Link Dashboard is a tool window in VS that shows all active browser link connections. You can invoke the dashboard by clicking on the little arrow next to the Refresh Linked Browser icon. Clicking on the Browser Link Dashboard menu item will bring up the tool window. As you can see in the image below, the dashboard shows all active connecti...