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Plugging custom OAuth/OpenID providers
In the previous post, I wrote about how you can use the existing providers for Google, Facebook etc. and retrieve extra metadata about the authenticated users. Let’s assume you wanted to change the way...
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NuGet Feed Performance Update
As you might know, NuGet has been having some performance (and timeout) related issues recently. Earlier this week, we completed a deployment that helped, but it didn't address everything. Many users...
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Customizing the login UI when using OAuth/OpenID
In the last post I showed how you can plug in your own OAuth/OpenID provider. This post shows you how you can pass in extra data about the provider such as display name, image etc and use this...
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List of ASP.NET Web API and HttpClient Samples
Here is a list of the Web API and HttpClient samples you can find in our samples repository on aspnet.codeplex.com. They illustrate various features of Web API and HttpClient targeting either Visual...
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Getting Symbols and Source with ASP.NET Nightly NuGet Packages
You can now get full symbols and source along with the nightly NuGet packages making it possible to debug the latest MVC, Web API, and Web Pages bits by tracing directly through the source. This is...
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Integrate OpenAuth/OpenID with your existing ASP.NET application using...
Over the past couple of weeks I have come across lots of questions/discussions on while OAuth/OpenId is cool as a feature in the ASP.NET templates in Visual Studio 2012, but how do I easily integrate...
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ASP.NET Data Access Guidance Published
On 9/11 we published a new* set of pages on MSDN offering guidance for getting started with data access in ASP.NET. If you're already using ASP.NET, parts of these pages will just repeat what you...
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How to use the EntityDataSource control with the DbContext API
The EntityDataSource control is designed to work with the ObjectContext API because that's all that existed when the control was created. The DbContext API was introduced later, in Entity Framework 4.1...
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An ASP.NET Open Source How-To Decoder Ring
As you probably know, ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and Web Pages are available as open source on aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com. If you want to go beyond using the official RTM versions and either use the latest...
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Configuring your ASP.NET application for Microsoft OAuth account
This post is a part of the series about how to enable and use OpenID/OAuth support that was added to the ASP.NET templates in Visual Studio 2012. In this post I am going to detail the instructions on...
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ASP.NET 4.5 ScriptManager Improvements in WebForms
The ScriptManger control has undergone some key targeted changes in ASP.NET 4.5 which makes it easier to register, manage and combine scripts using the ASP.NET weboptimization feature. This post will...
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WCF Duplex Bi-directional Streaming with WebSocket Transport
DuplexBiDirectionalStreaming VS2012 project DuplexBiDirectionalStreaming.zip Introduction With WebSocket transport, it’s possible to use streamed transport on the Duplex Callback – something that was...
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Workaround for HTML closing tag problem
In Visual Studio 2012, HTML tags will fail to be automatically closed when using the following keyboard layouts: Canadian Multilingual Croatian Czech Hungarian Latvian Polish Romanian Serbian Slovak...
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More Details on the “Closing Tag Problem”
We are testing a fix for the “closing tag problem” bug, but it will still take some time to deliver the fix to customers. The work-around posted earlier will alleviate the problem now and should not...
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Spell Checker extension for Visual Studio 2012 HTML, ASP.NET, CSS and other...
I have updated spell checker extension for Visual Studio 2012. You can download it from Visual Studio Gallery. Spell checker supports text verification in: HTML and ASP.NET element content and...
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BlogEngine.NET and Windows Azure Web Sites
The Windows Azure Web Sites team has been hard at work looking at various applications and working with vendors and community contributors to add some great applications to the web sites gallery. If...
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Cryptographic Improvements in ASP.NET 4.5, pt. 1
I am Levi Broderick, a developer on the ASP.NET team at Microsoft. In this series, I want to introduce some of the improvements we have made to the cryptographic core in ASP.NET 4.5. Most of these...
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Cryptographic Improvements in ASP.NET 4.5, pt. 2
Thanks for joining us for day two of our series on cryptography in ASP.NET 4.5! In yesterday's post, I discussed how ASP.NET uses cryptography in general, where key material is pulled from and how it...
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Cryptographic Improvements in ASP.NET 4.5, pt. 3
Thanks for joining us for the final day of our series on cryptography in ASP.NET 4.5! Up to now, the series has discussed how ASP.NET uses cryptography in general, including how the pipelines are...
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ASP.NET Web Forms Application (2012) Templates on Visual Studio 2010
The release of Visual Studio 2012 included updated templates for ASP.NET WebForms, MVC and WebPages. The templates showcased the use of modern standards in HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. Apart from these,...
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