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Invoke the Manage NuGet Packages dialog programmatically
Recently I've been asked several times for how to invoke the Manage NuGet Packages dialog from VS components programmatically, and optionally auto-invoke the search when the dialog opens. Today I'd like to share the solution in this post. It's actually very straightforward. The Manage NuGet Packages menu command is registered as a standard VS command, thus you can call to invoke it. The trick is to know the command name, which is Project.ManageNuGetPackages. Here's a code sample: Note that it will open the project-level dialog. To open the solution-level dialog instead, you replace the command name with Tool...
Katana License Lifts Windows-only Restriction
(cross-posted from http://codebetter.com/howarddierking/2013/07/23/katana-license-lifts-windows-only-restriction/) Over the past few months, a great deal of attention has been paid to the following clause used in most of the licenses associated with the NuGet packages that we and other teams at Microsoft ship. “ a. Distribution Restrictions. You may not … distribute Distributable Code to run on a platform other than the Windows platform;” In the case of the ASP.NET-related projects, including project Katana, this license (and the associated restriction) does not apply to the source code, but rather to the c...
Katana License Lifts Windows-only Restriction
(cross-posted from http://codebetter.com/howarddierking/2013/07/23/katana-license-lifts-windows-only-restriction/) Over the past few months, a great deal of attention has been paid to the following clause used in most of the licenses associated with the NuGet packages that we and other teams at Microsoft ship. “ a. Distribution Restrictions. You may not … distribute Distributable Code to run on a platform other than the Windows platform;” In the case of the ASP.NET-related projects, including project Katana, this license (and the associated restriction) does not apply to the source code, but rather to the c...
Publish HTML/JS website to Linux/Apache using Visual Studio
We received a question about how to use Visual Studio to deploy HTML/JS website to Linux / Apache. To do it, you need to create an empty ASP.NET website project in Visual Studio (File->New Web Site…) and then include all the HTML/JS files. 1. Right click on the website Project, select “Publish Web Site”. 2. Drop down the Publish Profile drop down and select New Profile. Name it “FTP” or whatever you want to call it. 3. On the Connection Tab set Publish method to FTP, fill in FTP server, root folder for the website on the server, user name and password. 4. Click &l...
Writing Web API Client Code for Multiple Platforms Using Portable Libraries
The Microsoft ASP.NET Web API Client Libraries make it easy to write .NET clients that interact with RESTful HTTP services. Unfortunately, until recently the Web API client libraries did not support all platforms. Because of this limitation, developers had to maintain different code, depending on the target platform. The new release of Microsoft ASP.NET Web API Client Libraries now comes with support for building portable libraries that target .NET 4.5, Windows Store and Windows Phone 8 applications. This support is built on the recently released portable HttpClient and the portable library support in Json.NET. ...
HttpClient 2.2 is now stable
As promised, we’ve just pushed the RTM version of HttpClient 2.2 to NuGet. This version adds support for automatic decompression. As announced here, this doesn’t require a dependency on Microsoft.Bcl.Compression. This allowed us to support automatic decompression on more platforms and without forcing your projects to change the CPU architecture. It’s worth noting that we didn’t make any changes since the RC version we published a week ago (despite changing the version). How to use automatic decompression (For the sake of keeping this post self-contained I’ve copied the content from t...
Tracing in ASP.NET MVC Razor Views
System.Diagnostics.Trace can be a useful tool for logging and debugging, and sometimes it would be handy to be able to call one of the tracing methods from a Razor view. For example, when an MVC application runs in production, by default MVC catches most application exceptions for you and routes them to Views/Shared/Error.cshtml. That view doesn’t show error details for security reasons, so you end up with the not-very-helpful message “An error occurred while processing your request.” Running locally you get detailed error info, or you can catch exceptions by running in debug mode, but what to do about err...
Responsible for a million dollar software project, but don’t know where to start?
This post was written by Cesar De la Torre Llorente, a member of the .NET Marketing team. Cesar provides guidance on .NET to customers and to sales, marketing, and support professionals at Microsoft. We just released a new guide that provides a global and broad picture of Microsoft development technologies for business applications. You can learn more at our .NET Technology Guidance site, or download the .NET Technology Guide for Business Applications directly. This guide is primarily intended for decision makers, architects, and developers who are responsible for selecting technologies and patterns for the...
“Enable Edit and Continue” debugging option is now on by default for new web applications in VS2013 preview
In VS2010 and VS2012, the edit and continue option is disabled by default when creating a new web application project. In VS2013 preview, we turned it on by default. You can find this option on the Web tab in the web project’s properties window. With “Enable Edit and Continue” on, the VS debugger starts your web application in IIS Express. When you stop debugging, IIS Express is closed too. With this behavior, you will see the IIS Express system tray shows up during debugging and gone after debugging. This behavior is the same as in VS2012 when the Enable Edit and Continue option is tu...