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ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview1: Endpoint Routing

August 27, 2018 Aug 27, 2018 08/27/18
Glenn Condron [MSFT]
Endpoint Routing in 2.2What is it?We're making a big investment in routing starting in 2.2 to make it interoperate more seamlessly with middleware. For 2.2 this will start with us making a few changes to the routing model, and adding some minor features. In 3.0 the plan is to introduce a model where routing and middleware operate together ...

New version of ASP.NET Merge Tool

July 15, 2015 Jul 15, 2015 07/15/15
Matt FJH
The ASP.NET Merge tool (Aspnet_merge.exe) enables you to combine and manage the assemblies that are created by the ASP.NET compilation tool (Aspnet_compiler.exe). It was built on top of a Microsoft Research project, ILMerge, through which Aspnet_merge.exe does IL code merge. What problem does this new version fix?The first version of ...

Scaffolding ADO.NET Entity Data Model Designer-based-models

January 14, 2014 Jan 14, 2014 01/14/14
Ian_Hong
The ADO.NET Entity Data Model Designer (Entity Designer) is a GUI tool for editing Entity Framework models. You can use the Entity Designer to visually create and modify entities, associations, mappings, and inheritance relationships. You can also use the tool to validate the model. When you build the Entity Framework models, Entity Designer...

Web publishing updates for app offline and usechecksum

October 29, 2013 Oct 29, 2013 10/29/13
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
In Visual Studio 2013 we have added a couple of small features for web publishing that I’d like to share with you. Those updates are; how to take your app offline during publishing and how you can update the default file compare option.App offline supportIn Visual Studio when you publish your web application we do not force the remote ...

VS Publish dialog Update Database dialog disabled

June 14, 2012 Jun 14, 2012 06/14/12
Web Development Tools Microsoft
If you have tried out our new Web Publish experience in Visual Studio you may have noticed that the Update Database checkbox is disabled. See the image below. The intended behavior of this checkbox is to enable you to incrementally publish your database schema from the source (the connection string in web.config) to the destination (...

Web Deploy: How to see the command executed in Visual Studio during publish

November 3, 2010 Nov 3, 2010 11/3/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
I just saw a post on Twitter asking the question    Is there any easy way to see the underlying MSBuild command when building in VS2010? Want to see the MSDeploy params. @wdeploy?One thing to know is that when you publish from Visual Studio, by default we use the MSDeploy (AKA Web Deployment Tool) Object Model in ...