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Portable HttpClient is now available as RC
Three months ago we shipped the first preview of the portable HttpClient. Many of you wondered when we would ship the RTM version. Today, we’re happy to announce the first step towards an RTM: We shipped a release candidate (RC) of HttpClient (Microsoft.Net.Http package on NuGet) that includes all the bug fixes since the preview. New features To address some of the platform differences in a portable fashion, we’ve added new capability APIs. HttpClientHandler.SupportsUseProxy(): The existing HttpClientHandler.SupportsProxy property indicates whether both the UseProxy property and the Proxy propert...
Portable HttpClient is now available as RC
Three months ago we shipped the first preview of the portable HttpClient. Many of you wondered when we would ship the RTM version. Today, we’re happy to announce the first step towards an RTM: We shipped a release candidate (RC) of HttpClient (Microsoft.Net.Http package on NuGet) that includes all the bug fixes since the preview. New features To address some of the platform differences in a portable fashion, we’ve added new capability APIs. HttpClientHandler.SupportsUseProxy(): The existing HttpClientHandler.SupportsProxy property indicates whether both the UseProxy property and the Proxy propert...
DataTable using SignalR+AngularJS+EntityFramework
SignalR brought developers an easier way to build real-time, very responsive web applications. But, how does it play with other available technologies? I took a couple of days to implement a very common scenario needed in every Enterprise Application: A DataTable to do CRUD operations persisting changes on a database. My initial thought was this is going to be a trivial task, I have done DataTables a few times in the past. Then, I realized the real-time model with many concurrent users introduces a few challenges. Before going through details, here is a screenshot of what I accomplished: A DataTable where multi...
Package Manager Dialog vs. Package Manager Console, some differences!
One common misconception we see among NuGet users is that NuGet could only install/ update to the latest version of a package in VS. This is due to the fact that through 'NuGet Package Manager Dialog' we only show that latest (stable or prerelease) version of any package. But, NuGet provides the ability to install/ update to any specific version of a package through Package Manager Console. Let's see an example below on how to do this. Install a specific version of a package To bring up Package Manager Console in VS, go to View->Other Windows->Package Manager Console. You could use the highlighted drop...
Where else is NuGet used in Visual Studio?
All NuGet users are probably familiar with both the Manage NuGet Packages dialog and the Package Manager Console. These are the main user interfaces for installing and managing packages. However, NuGet is also used in a couple of more subtle places. Below are a few of them that I am aware of. With the exception of the New Project dialog, these dialogs/commands invoke NuGet through the well-documented MEF services that NuGet exports. I'm very happy to see various teams in Microsoft take advantage of NuGet to implement their own features. I expect even more widespread usage of NuGet in future versions of...
Play with Packages, programmatically!
One of the many often seen requests, from developers using NuGet, is examples on our NuGet core APIs. The requests range from finding meta-data for the packages to installing the package programmatically. In this blog post, I will provide a few examples of using NuGet Core APIs. Getting Started To use NuGet Core APIs, install NuGet.Core NuGet package in your project and add NuGet namespace to your using statements. Get me the pre-released versions of a package Let's say you would like to get the list of all pre-released versions of EntityFramework package. Below is the code snippet that would get you the list...
ASP.NET hosts six community created SPA templates now
Since announcement of 4 community created Single Page Application templates when releasing ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 in February 2013, the community has done some updates to the templates and released 2 more templates: Backbone template and Breeze/Angular template. You can view the details and download the templates at http://www.asp.net/single-page-application/overview/introduction/other-libraries . To use these templates, please make sure you installed Visual Studio 2012 Update 2, which included ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2. Template’s website (if have any) and source location are listed here: Backbone...
.NET Crash Dump and Live Process Inspection
Analyzing crash dumps can be complicated. Although Visual Studio supports viewing managed crash dumps, you often have to resort to more specialized tools like the SOS debugging extensions or WinDbg. In today’s post, Lee Culver, software developer on the .NET Runtime team, will introduce you to a new managed library that allows you to automate inspection tasks and access even more debugging information. --Immo Today are we excited to announce the beta release of the Microsoft.Diagnostics.Runtime component (called ClrMD for short) through the NuGet Package Manager. ClrMD is a set of advanced APIs for programm...
Please update to the latest version of Web Essentials 2012 after installing VS2012 Update 2
After releasing ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2, which is also included in Visual Studio 2012 update 2, we’ve received a few customer feedback about their VS shows an error dialog saying: An exception has been encountered. This may be caused by an extension. You can get more information by examining the file 'C:Users<username>AppDataRoamingMicrosoftVisualStudio12.0ActivityLog.xml'. When looking at ActivityLog.xml, the following error message may show up: System.ComponentModel.Composition.ImportCardinalityMismatchException: Duplicate EditorFormatDefinition exports with identical name attributes exi...