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Where can you meet the team? November 2014 at AngleBrackets and Connect();

November 7, 2014 Nov 7, 2014 11/7/14
Xinyang Qiu
We’ve got two big events coming up next week. AngleBracketsNov 10th-13th in Vegas is an exciting open-source web conference that’s collocated with DevIntersections. That means you can register for one and attend both! Come see Scotts Hanselman and Scott Guthrie, along with web tooling PM Mads Kristensen and Mohit Srivastava ,&...

Announcing new Web Features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 RC

October 16, 2014 Oct 16, 2014 10/16/14
Xinyang Qiu
Today, the Visual Studio team announced the release of Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 RC.  Our team added a few useful features and did some bug fixing in this update to improve the web development experience. Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.4 RC JSON Editor Improvement We made a few improvements in the JSON editor, including ...

Where can you meet the team? November 2014 at AngleBrackets and TechEd

October 7, 2014 Oct 7, 2014 10/7/14
Xinyang Qiu
We on the Web Tools team love hanging out with the community. We thought it would be cool to start sharing exactly where we will be and what conferences or user groups you can join us at!The .NET Developer Blog has a great always updated list of .NET User Groups, so be sure to bookmark that also!We’ve got two big events coming up soon, ...

ASP.NET vNext in Visual Studio “14” CTP 4

October 6, 2014 Oct 6, 2014 10/6/14
Xinyang Qiu
Today we released updates for ASP.NET vNext in Visual Studio “14” CTP 4. This release includes the ASP.NET vNext runtime and tooling improvements as outlined below. ASP.NET vNext Runtime This CTP includes our alpha4 runtime packages for ASP.NET vNext. You can find details on the specific enhancements added and issues fixed in the...

The Ajax Control Toolkit are now maintained by DevExpress

September 30, 2014 Sep 30, 2014 09/30/14
Xinyang Qiu
The open sourced Ajax Control Toolkit now has a new owner: DevExpress.  This project was created on codeplex in 2007 and our team has been sponsoring its development ever since.  It has been downloaded millions of times and played an important role in the field.  The ASP.NET team knows that many people use the ASP.NET Ajax ...

Announcing the Release of Web API OData 5.3

September 11, 2014 Sep 11, 2014 09/11/14
Andrew Zhou from Microsoft
The 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 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 features for Web API OData v4 as ...

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 ...

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 ...