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Guidance for library authors

We've just published our first cut of the .NET Library Guidance. It's brand new set of articles for .NET developers who want to create high-quality libraries for .NET. The guidance contains recommendations we've identified as common best practices that apply to most public .NET libraries. We want to help .NET developers build great ...

Releasing Microsoft ASP.NET Universal Providers Core 1.2

I hope everyone has been busy downloading Visual Studio 2012 and have started building awesome web applications. We have been busy too during this time.We have just released an update to the version of Universal Providers that shipped with VS2012. Following are the key changes with this release  What should you doThis version of ...