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Entity Framework 7 RC1 Available

November 18, 2015 Nov 18, 2015 11/18/15
Rowan Miller
Today we are making Entity Framework 7 RC1 available. EF7 will be the next major release of Entity Framework and is currently in pre-release.   When to use EF7 As discussed in our EF7 – v1 or v7 post, EF7 introduces some significant changes and improvements over EF6.x. Because EF7 is based on a new core, the features from EF6.x do ...

Yeoman generators for ASP.NET 5

December 17, 2014 Dec 17, 2014 12/17/14
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
Hi everyone, this post is in my name but it’s authored by Sourabh Shirhatti. He was a **Program Manager Intern **from the University of Texas at Austin that I’ve had the pleasure of working with this summer. This post is long overdue, we should have posted this a while back. Better late than never :)   Building complex modern web ...

Adding Core References Support in an ASP.NET Empty Project

October 22, 2013 Oct 22, 2013 10/22/13
Xueyuan Dai
Adding Core References Support in an ASP.NET Empty Project Brief In Visual Studio 2013 we introduced the core reference framework to ASP.NET project creation. You can choose what core references you want in your to-be-created project. How Let’s take the example of adding Web API core references in an Empty ASP.NET Project Open Visual ...

Real Scenario: folder deployment scenarios with MSDeploy

January 9, 2013 Jan 9, 2013 01/9/13
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
Hi everyone Sayed here. I recently had a customer, Johan, contact me to help with some challenges regarding deployment automation. He had some very specific requirements, but he was able to automate the entire process. He has been kind enough to agree to write up his experience to share with everyone. His story is below. If you have any ...