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New ASP.NET Features and Fixes in Visual Studio 2015 RC

April 29, 2015 Apr 29, 2015 04/29/15
Jeffrey Fritz
Today Scott Hanselman announced the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2015, Team Foundation Server 2015 and Visual Studio 2013 Update 5. We hope that all //build attendees are enjoying the show, and we are following up on the news of the Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate to show you some of the cool new features delivered in this version ...

Rounding out Visual F# 4.0 in VS 2015 RC

April 29, 2015 Apr 29, 2015 04/29/15
Visual FSharp Team [MSFT]
Today marks the release of Visual Studio 2015 RC, which includes the latest updates to the Visual F# 4.0 language and tools.  Download the RC here, and review the VS release notes here. Back in November, we described the F# 4.0 features that were completed in time for the Visual Studio 2015 Preview build. New features like constructors ...

.NET Announcements at Build 2015

April 29, 2015 Apr 29, 2015 04/29/15
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. Updated (July 2015): See Announcing .NET Framework 4.6 to read about the final version of the .NET Framework 4.6. At the Build conference today, Scott Guthrie announced the .NET Framework 4.6 RC and Visual Studio 2015 RC. He also announced important updates ...

Making It Better: ASP.NET with Visual Basic 14

April 24, 2015 Apr 24, 2015 04/24/15
Jeffrey Fritz
(image) BASIC is part of the DNA of Microsoft, and we have continued to evolve the language for most of the 40 years of the company’s existence.  In the next evolution of the language, Visual Basic 14, there are a number of great features that are being added and we want to make sure that you know we are fully supporting them with ASP...

ASP.NET Identity 2.2.1

April 7, 2015 Apr 7, 2015 04/7/15
pranav rastogi
We are releasing ASP.NET Identity 2.2.1. The main focus in this release was to fix issues reported in 2.2.0 release. Download this release You can download ASP.NET Identity from the NuGet gallery. You can install or update these packages using the NuGet Package Manager Console, like this: Install-Package Microsoft.AspNet.Identity....

MSBuild Engine is now Open Source on GitHub

March 18, 2015 Mar 18, 2015 03/18/15
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Today we are pleased to announce that MSBuild is now available on GitHub and we are contributing it to the .NET Foundation! The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is a platform for building applications. By invoking msbuild.exe on your project or solution file, you can orchestrate and build products in environments where Visual Studio isn't ...

dotnetConf is back, this Wednesday

March 16, 2015 Mar 16, 2015 03/16/15
.NET Team
dotnetConf is a free, 2 day virtual event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft, and it’s this Wednesday! As you can guess by its name, it’s dedicated to your favorite development platform, .NET. Grab a comfortable chair, a pot of your favorite hot (or cold) beverage and a mind to fill with all the latest .NET product and ...

Welcome Back! – The AJAX Control Toolkit March 2015 Update

March 10, 2015 Mar 10, 2015 03/10/15
Jeffrey Fritz
Welcome Back! - The AJAX Control Toolkit March 2015 Update Its been 15 months since a significant update was released for the AJAX Control Toolkit on CodePlex. In the time since then, our friends at DevExpress have stepped up and offered to lead this open source project. In just a few short months, they have implemented a number of modern and...

Automatic code formatter released to GitHub

February 9, 2015 Feb 9, 2015 02/9/15
Immo Landwerth
Code formatting can be a huge pain point. In this post, Jared Parsons, software developer on the Roslyn team, showcases a tool that takes care of it. We have just released the code formatting tool we use to automatically format our code to the prescribed coding guidelines. This tool is based on Roslyn and will work on any C# project. (image) ...

CoreCLR is now Open Source

February 3, 2015 Feb 3, 2015 02/3/15
.NET Team
We’re excited to announce that CoreCLR is now open source on GitHub. CoreCLR is the .NET execution engine in .NET Core, performing functions such as garbage collection and compilation to machine code. .NET Core is a modular implementation of .NET that can be used as the base stack for a wide variety of scenarios, today scaling from console ...