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.NET Aspire 9.3 is here and enhanced with GitHub Copilot!
.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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OWIN Middleware in the IIS integrated pipeline & StageMarkers
Although OWIN middleware components are primarily designed to run on an OWIN pipeline, it can run on IIS as well. Similar to how HttpModules can subscribe to a specific IIS integrated pipeline event, an OWIN middleware can be subscribed to run at a specific IIS integrated pipeline event. Check out OWIN Middleware in the IIS integrated pipeline to know how to configure Stage markers. Welcome your feedback!
RyuJIT: The next-generation JIT compiler for .NET
This post introduces the .NET team’s new 64-bit Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler. It was written by Andrew Pardoe, PM Manager for the CLR Runtime PM team. The world is moving to 64-bit computing even though it isn’t always faster or more efficient than 32-bit. A lot of programs run faster on 32-bit than on 64-bit, for a variety of reasons. One example of this is the 64-bit JIT compiler in .NET. It does a great job of making your program run fast, but it’s not a fast program itself. All that’s about to change: a new, next-generation x64 JIT compiler that compiles code twice as fast is ready to change your impress...
HTML Editing Features in Visual Studio 2013 RC
Several interesting features have been added to the new HTML editor in Visual Studio 2013 RC since the VS 2013 Preview release. See HTML Editing Features in Visual Studio 2013 Preview for a rundown of the Preview features. CSS Class and ID IntelliSense In the Preview release, the new HTML editor did not implement CSS Class IntelliSense, meaning that if you typed <p class=”” you did not get a list of available classes. In RC, this feature is complete and is significantly better than the VS 2012 implementation. VS 2012 had to follow file references back to CSS files to construct Class IntelliSense...
Immutable collections ready for prime time
Today I’m very happy to announce that we released the stable version of the Microsoft.Bcl.Immutable NuGet package. We also published the MSDN documentation on immutable collections. Thank you! Nine months ago, we shipped the first preview of immutable collections. This was one of the first BCL features that we decided to ship early and often by releasing out of band (that is, outside the core .NET Framework releases). This allowed us to have a public design discussion, which, in turn, gave us the ability to address your feedback in a faster and more direct way than ever before. Many of you participated and c...
Attribute Routing changes for ASP.NET Web Stack shipped in VS2013 RC
For the VS2013 Preview release, we published two articles about Attribute Routing for Web API 2: · http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/web-api-routing-and-actions/attribute-routing-in-web-api-2 · http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/web-api-routing-and-actions/create-a-rest-api-with-attribute-routing The VS2013 RC release includes more changes and features for attribute routing: 1. Explicitly declare a route template on an action In RC, if attribute routing is enabled, you must explicitly declare the attribute for the desired actions. In Preview, you don’t have to. 2. Added support for overriding Ro...
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...