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.NET Framework 4.5.1 RTM => start coding

October 17, 2013 Oct 17, 2013 10/17/13
.NET Team
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is unsupported. Updated (July 2015): See Announcing .NET Framework 4.6 to read about the latest version of the NET Framework. Today, we’re announcing the availability of the .NET Framework 4.5.1 and Visual Studio 2013 (Soma’s blog). You can ...

NuGet is a .NET framework release vehicle

October 16, 2013 Oct 16, 2013 10/16/13
.NET Team
This post describes how the .NET team uses NuGet and how discoverability and serviceability have improved in the .NET Framework 4.5.1. It was written by Alok Shriram, a Program Manager on the .NET Core Framework Team.  Update: Read PCL and .NET NuGet Libraries are now enabled for Xamarin to learn more about how our NuGet packages ...

Web Publish how to automate multi-project publish with file system

September 22, 2013 Sep 22, 2013 09/22/13
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
The other day I received an email from a customer with a question which I’ve summarized as below. I have a solution containing multiple web projects. One of the projects, _RootSite, is the top level website which I want to publish. It’s an MVC project. I also have other web projects in the same solution. These other projects are apps ...

Web Publishing a simpler way to exclude files/folders from being published

August 22, 2013 Aug 22, 2013 08/22/13
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
I’ve written a few blog posts on how to exclude files from publishing/packaging. In each of these posts you’d have to be familiar with MSBuild and the Web Publish process. I’ve been looking for a much simpler way to exclude files/folder from publishing. When using git you can easily exclude files and folders using a .gitignore file. ...

Get the latest .NET Bits

June 27, 2013 Jun 27, 2013 06/27/13
.NET Team
We maintain a set of pages that make it easier for you to find all the .NET Framework versions, SDKs, and targeting packs that you can take advantage of in your .NET apps, as we mentioned last year on the .NET blog. We recently redesigned the pages and added more SDKs for you to download. You may even find some SDKs to try that you didn’t ...

HTML Editing Features in Visual Studio 2013 Preview

June 27, 2013 Jun 27, 2013 06/27/13
VKichline
The Preview Release of Visual Studio 2013 contains a surprising addition: a brand new HTML editor! In fact, VS 2013 contains two HTML editors. The story’s a little complicated, so this article will do its best to simplify the matter. Visual Studio 2012 included a brand new CSS editor, implemented entirely in managed code and highly ...

Announcing the .NET Framework 4.5.1 Preview

June 26, 2013 Jun 26, 2013 06/26/13
.NET Team
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is unsupported. Updated (July 2015): See Announcing .NET Framework 4.6 to read about the latest version of the NET Framework. Update: The .NET Framework 4.5.1 RTM has been released and is available for download. The content below is still a great ...

.NET Memory Allocation Profiling with Visual Studio 2012

April 4, 2013 Apr 4, 2013 04/4/13
.NET Team
This post was written by Stephen Toub, a frequent contributor to the Parallel Programming in .NET blog. He shows us how Visual Studio 2012 and an attention to detail can help you discover unnecessary allocations in your app that can prevent it from achieving higher performance. Visual Studio 2012 has a wealth of valuable functionality, ...

Web Deploy (MSDeploy) how to sync a folder

August 22, 2012 Aug 22, 2012 08/22/12
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
Today I saw the following question on StackOverflow MSDeploy - Deploying Contents of a Folder to a Remote IIS Server and decided to write this post to answer the question. Web Deploy (aka MSDeploy) uses a provider model and there are a good number of providers available out of the box. To give you an example of some of the providers; when ...