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ASP.NET providers and SQL Azure
We have two sets of ASP.NET providers which currently exist; the ASP.NET SQL providers, and the ASP.NET Universal Providers. In VS 2010 the SQL providers were in only providers used for our project...
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Visual Studio 2010 Web Publish Updates
Last week we rolled out some updates for our Visual Studio 2010 Web Publishing Experience. This post will give you an overview of the new features which we released. In the coming weeks there will be...
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Visual Studio 2012 RC Web Tooling Extensions update
If you have been following our blog and twitter accounts then you most likely have heard that some of the Web components of Visual Studio 2012 are now “Out of Band”. What that means is that we can...
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Plans regarding Website projects and Web Deployment Projects
The release of Visual Studio 2012 is right around the corner. If you’ve been following our blog/twitter then you may know that many of the Web related components of Visual Studio are now“out-of-band”,...
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How to create Web Deploy packages in Visual Studio 2012
When building Visual Studio 2012 we made an effort to reduce the amount of menu options which are shown on toolbars as well as context menus. If you have used any of the pre-release versions of VS 2012...
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Using Dynamic Data with Entity Framework DbContext
In Visual Studio 2012, if you create a ADO.NET Data Model then the generated Context class derives from a type called DbContext instead of ObjectContext. DbContext is also used when you are using...
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OAuth/OpenID Support for WebForms, MVC and WebPages
[Update] Adding relevant links at the bottom of the post One of the coolest features in Visual Studio 2012 is the ability to login using your Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter or Google account. The project...
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More info on publish links in Visual Studio 2012
Within the web publishing tools in Visual Studio there are a few places where we point to more resources. For example if you open a VS publish profile (.pubxml) file you will see a link in the comments...
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Visual Studio 2012 RTW
Visual Studio 2012 is now released to the web. Please visit Jason Zander’s Blog for detailed announcement. This page lists what’s new in ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio for Web. We are updating the...
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Migration for user accounts from the SqlMembershipProvider to the Universal...
As you know ASP.Net SqlMembershipProvider / SqlRoleProvider only support Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Server Express. There is no support for Microsoft SQL Azure and Microsoft SQL Server...
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Links to ASP.NET WebAPI blog posts and Data Access blog posts
Here are some blog posts about ASP.NET WebAPI that we just released. ASP.NET Web API Released and a Preview of What’s Next Introducing the ASP.NET Web API Help Page (Preview) [Video] OData support in...
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Profile specific web.config transforms and transform preview
When we released VS2010 we add support for web.config (XDT) transforms during publish/package. Note: From now on I’ll only use the word publish from now on but the full content relates to packaging as...
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Getting Started with ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms
The best way to learn what’s new in ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms, is to work through the latest tutorial series by Erik Reitan: Getting Started with ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms. The 10 tutorials in the series...
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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...
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Visual Studio project compatibility and VisualStudioVersion
One of the most requested features of Visual Studio 2012 was the ability to open projects in both VS 2012 as well as VS 2010 (requires VS 2010 SP1). In case you haven’t heard we did implement that...
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Announcing the Release of SignalR 0.5.3
SignalR 0.5.3 Release Notes The SignalR team has been working long hours in their team room in Building 18 for the past few months adding features, resolving issues, and cranking out code. Today the...
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Extra Information from OAuth/OpenId Provider
When you authenticate a user using the OAuth/OpenId providers, you can request for some extra information about the user if you have granted access for these providers to send this information. For eg...
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Web Deploy (MSDeploy) how to sync a folder
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)...
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NuGet Gallery Performance Issues
Since August 16th, and especially since August 21st, the NuGet Gallery has been exhbiting intermittent performance issues. Some users are reporting errors when attempting to browse or search for NuGet...
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Expected NuGet Downtime - August 22 11pm-12am PDT
As mentioned in a previous post, we’ve been working to address some performance problems on the NuGet Gallery. The fixes we have in place include some time-consuming database migrations. During our dry...
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