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Integrating with Instagram using ASP.NET WebHooks Preview

September 21, 2015 Sep 21, 2015 09/21/15
Henrik F Nielsen
In the blog Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks Preview, we gave an overview of how to work with Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks. We described how you get out-of-the-box support for a variety of WebHooks providers such as Dropbox, GitHub, MailChimp, PayPal, Slack, Salesforce, Trello, as well as being able to write your own. In this blog we ...

Sending WebHooks with ASP.NET WebHooks Preview

September 15, 2015 Sep 15, 2015 09/15/15
Henrik F Nielsen
In the blog Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks Preview, we gave an overview of how to work with Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks. We mentioned that it is not only possible to receive WebHooks from others but also to add support for sending WebHooks from your Web Application. This blog goes into detail on how to do that. Sending WebHooks is ...

Integrating with Salesforce using ASP.NET WebHooks Preview

September 6, 2015 Sep 6, 2015 09/6/15
Henrik F Nielsen
In the blog Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks Preview, we gave an overview of how to work with Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks. Out of the box we provide support for a variety of existing WebHooks providers such as Dropbox, GitHub, MailChimp, PayPal, Slack, Trello, and many more. Salesforce does not support classic WebHooks, but they do have ...

Integrating with Slack Using ASP.NET WebHooks Preview

September 6, 2015 Sep 6, 2015 09/6/15
Henrik F Nielsen
In the blog Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks Preview, we gave an overview of how to work with Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks. Slack provides an interesting model where you can set up a WebHook to be fired when a certain trigger word is used in one of their messaging channels. In addition, it is possible for the WebHook to send data back to ...

Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks Preview

September 4, 2015 Sep 4, 2015 09/4/15
Henrik F Nielsen
We are very pleased to announce ASP.NET WebHooks preview as a new addition to the ASP.NET family. WebHooks is a lightweight HTTP pattern providing a simple pub/sub model for wiring together Web APIs and SaaS services. When an event happens in a service, a notification is sent in the form of an HTTP POST request to registered subscribers. The ...

Announcing ASP.NET 4.6 and ASP.NET 5 beta 5 in Visual Studio 2015 Release

July 20, 2015 Jul 20, 2015 07/20/15
Jeffrey Fritz
Long time readers of this blog or followers of the ASP.NET Community Standup know that this day was coming, and we have a released version of ASP.NET 4.6 framework and tools with Visual Studio 2015.  Not only are we shipping ASP.NET 4.6, but we are also including with Visual Studio 2015 a bundle of ASP.NET 5 beta 5 runtime tools and libraries...

ASP.NET MVC 5.2.3, Web Pages 3.2.3 and Web API 5.2.3 Beta releases

December 17, 2014 Dec 17, 2014 12/17/14
Yishai G_
While the MVC team is working hard on MVC 6 as part of the ASP.NET 5 effort, we also keep working on the 5.x packages. Today we are releasing a Beta of ASP.NET MVC 5.2.3, Web Pages 5.2.3 and Web API 5.2.3.This preview release addresses 12 issues. Here is the full list.Highlight of issues fixedWeb API Issues2092 Significant performance ...

Content negotiation in MVC 6 (or how can I just write JSON)

November 24, 2014 Nov 24, 2014 11/24/14
Yishai G_
[Update] - We decided to make two significant changes starting with Beta3, we are to not include the XML formatter by default, as well as special treat browsers. The content below is still relevant up to MVC 6 Beta2.IntroIn this blog, I intend to provide a simplified how-things-work and how-to-change-the-behavior. It is not intended as a deep ...

Microsoft Asp.Net MVC Security Update MS14-059 broke my build!

October 16, 2014 Oct 16, 2014 10/16/14
miguel
Microsoft just released a new security update to be automatically applied to machines configured to use Microsoft Update.  The security bulletin is available here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms14-059Unfortunately, some ASP.NET MVC 3 and 4 VS projects can no longer build after the update is applied. These projects...