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Introducing ASP.NET Identity – A membership system for ASP.NET applications
ASP.NET Identity is the new membership system for building ASP.NET web applications. ASP.NET Identity allows you to add login features to your application and makes it easy to customize data about the logged in user. [Update] Please visit ASP.NET Identity for getting the latest information about ASP.NET Identity project and learning more on how to get started and migrate from earlier membership systems. Features Following are some of the feature of the ASP.NET Identity system How do I get it? ASP.NET Identity is used by ASP.NET Web Fo...
Get the latest .NET Bits
We maintain a set of pages that make it easier for you to find all the .NET Framework versions, SDKs, and targeting packs that you can take advantage of in your .NET apps, as we mentioned last year on the .NET blog. We recently redesigned the pages and added more SDKs for you to download. You may even find some SDKs to try that you didn’t know about. If you really just want the latest bits, use the following links: We've provided a separate page for each version of Visual Studio, since each version has a different set of capabilities: You can now quickly get to the .NET download tha...
Adding External Logins to your ASP.NET application in Visual Studio 2013
The project templates showcase a way of logging in with external login providers, along with the normal way of logging in by creating a local account This post highlights how you can turn on support for logging through these services in the ASP.NET project templates that shipped with Visual Studio 2013 Preview. To learn more about how authentication via external providers works, please read the following article. http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/security/external-authentication-services#USING Enable OAuth login using Facebook, Twitter Steps to get keys for Facebook Steps t...
HTML Editing Features in Visual Studio 2013 Preview
The Preview Release of Visual Studio 2013 contains a surprising addition: a brand new HTML editor! In fact, VS 2013 contains two HTML editors. The story’s a little complicated, so this article will do its best to simplify the matter. Visual Studio 2012 included a brand new CSS editor, implemented entirely in managed code and highly extensible through MEF. This allowed the development of the Web Essentials extension, which greatly extended the feature set of CSS but which is rev’ed independently in a rapid cadence. Unfortunately, the HTML editor’s architecture remained dated and could not be ext...
ASP.NET updates to support Windows Azure Active Directory
Today we released an update to the Visual Studio **2013 Preview **which enables you to create ASP.NET applications which use Windows Azure Active Directory for authentication. In this post I will describe; how you can get the additional support, where to find more info and a list of known issues. How to get the latest support In order to try out the latest support you will need to first download and install Visual Studio 2013 Preview. After installing this to get the latest features for Windows Azure AD (WAAD) you will need to install ASP.NET and Web Tools Preview Refresh (Supports English version of VS2013 Pr...
Announcing release of ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Preview and the refresh update
I’m excited to show the new features of the ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Preview. I’m also announcing the release of ASP.NET and Web Tools Refresh for Visual Studio 2013 Preview. This refresh update is a free download for Visual Studio 2013 Preview, and contains a few bug fixes, updated templates and Scaffolding for both ASP.NET and Visual Studio. Click here to download and install the Visual Studio 2013 Preview today. If you have the English version of VS2013 preview, you can also install the ASP.NET and Web Tools Refresh (Do not install this on non-English VS2013 Preview). Plea...
Announcing the .NET Framework 4.5.1 Preview
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is unsupported. Updated (July 2015): See Announcing .NET Framework 4.6 to read about the latest version of the NET Framework. Update: The .NET Framework 4.5.1 RTM has been released and is available for download. The content below is still a great description of the .NET Framework 4.5.1 and is a great way to learn about the great features in the release. Today, we are announcing the .NET Framework 4.5.1 Preview, which includes new features and improvements across the product. We’ve made it easier to build .NET apps in ...
NuGet 2.6 Released and Included in Visual Studio 2013 Preview
We are excited to announce that NuGet 2.6 has been released and it is included in the box with Visual Studio 2013 Preview. For details about what's in the release, the release notes are published on docs.nuget.org. NuGet 2.6 Features Support for Visual Studio 2013 NuGet 2.6 is the first release that provides support for Visual Studio 2013. And like Visual Studio 2012, the NuGet Package Manager extension is included in every edition of Visual Studio. In order to provide the best possible support for Visual Studio 2013 while still supporting both Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2012, and keeping th...
Knockout IntelliSense Highlighting Bug Fix
We introduced Knockout IntelliSense in Visual Studio 2012 for web projects with KnockoutJS included, and fixed a few bugs in VS Update 1 and 2. However, one bug was not fixed in VS Update 2 and is still frequently reported: the highlighting region can shift around as the page is edited: This bug was fixed and release in Web Tools Extension 1.3. However, the shipping vehicle for WTE 1.3 was more limited than we anticipated at the time, and this component is not a part of VS Update 3 for Visual Studio 2012. To obtain this fix, please install Windows Azure SDK for .NET 2.0 by following these steps: 1. Cl...