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Understanding Security Features in the SPA Template for VS2013 RC

The blog is based on Visual Studio 2013 RC release. We have completely rewritten the SPA template from the previous version( MVC 4). Here are some of the changes we made: Note that SPA VB template is still not available in this RC release. We will ship it with RTM release. In this blog, I will focus on the ...

Visual Studio 2013 Custom Web Servers and OwinHost.exe

When running Web applications from within Visual Studio, there have generally been two primary hosts available while developing: a local “development” Web server, or a full version of Internet Information Services (IIS). There has also been a “custom server” option, where a path to a server executable could be entered; however, this ...