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.NET Sample Code on GitHub

September 16, 2014 Sep 16, 2014 09/16/14
Immo Landwerth
Today, we're happy to announce that we've started to move some of our sample assets over to GitHub, using the MIT license. So I can directly answer Ben's question: @ben_a_adams The sample code is now on GitHub. Check out this blog post: https://t.co/LXq2Ka1fLo — Immo Landwerth (@terrajobst) September 16, 2014 Why did we move to GitHub? The...

Farewell, EnableViewStateMac!

September 9, 2014 Sep 9, 2014 09/9/14
levibroderick
The ASP.NET team is making an important announcement regarding the September 2014 security updates. All versions of the ASP.NET runtime 1.1 - 4.5.2 now forbid setting <%@ Page EnableViewStateMac="false" %> and <pages enableViewStateMac="false" />. If you have set EnableViewStateMac="false" anywhere in your application, your ...

Announcing the Release Candidates for Web API OData 5.3

August 27, 2014 Aug 27, 2014 08/27/14
Andrew Zhou from Microsoft
The release candidate NuGet packages for ASP.NET Web API OData 5.3 are now live on the NuGet gallery!Download this releaseYou can install or update the release candidate NuGet packages for ASP.NET Web API OData 5.3 using the NuGet Package Manager Console, like this: What’s in this release?This release primarily includes great new ...

Being an intern on the .NET Team

August 25, 2014 Aug 25, 2014 08/25/14
Immo Landwerth
This summer we had six amazing interns that joined the team to work on .NET. Their projects ranged from internal tools, over shipping components to designing forward looking aspects: If you're interested in interning with Microsoft, visit our recruiting web site. Now let's dive right in and see what cool stuff they helped us building. ...

Command line scaffolding for ASP.NET vNext

August 21, 2014 Aug 21, 2014 08/21/14
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
In previous releases we have added support for scaffolding controllers/views based on project artifacts in both MVC and Web Forms projects. The technology used for those previous releases was tied to Visual Studio. With ASP.NET vNext one of our high level goals is to enable Visual Studio customers to work with non-Visual Studio users. So the ...

ASP.NET vNext in Visual Studio “14” CTP 3

August 18, 2014 Aug 18, 2014 08/18/14
Xinyang Qiu
Today we released various runtime and tooling updates for ASP.NET vNext in Visual Studio “14” CTP 3. We included all the features that were included in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 in this release. This release also has ASP.NET vNext runtime and tooling improvements as outlined below. ASP.NET vNext Runtime This CTP includes our ...

Moving to the .NET Framework 4.5.2

August 7, 2014 Aug 7, 2014 08/7/14
The .NET Fundamentals Team
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. A few months ago we announced the availability of the .NET Framework 4.5.2, a highly compatible, in-place update to the .NET 4.x family (.NET 4, 4.5, and 4.5.1). The .NET Framework 4.5.2 was released only a few short months after the release of .NET 4.5.1 and gives you ...

Announcing new Web Features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RTM

August 4, 2014 Aug 4, 2014 08/4/14
Xinyang Qiu
Today, the Visual Studio team announced the release of RTM version of Visual Studio 2013 Update 3.  Our team added a few useful features and did some bug fixing in this update to improve the web development experience.  Our team also released Azure SDK 2.4 SDK today, you can read the detail here. Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools ...

ASP.NET vNext in Visual Studio “14” CTP 2

July 8, 2014 Jul 8, 2014 07/8/14
Xinyang Qiu
Today we released various runtime and tooling updates for ASP.NET vNext in the Visual Studio “14” CTP 2. This CTP includes our alpha2 runtime packages for ASP.NET vNext. You can find all the details on the specific enhancements added and issues fixed in the published release notes on GitHub.For information on how to get started ...