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View Persisted Logs in Azure Storage in Visual Studio 2012
In ScottGu’s Blog “Announcing the release of Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET”, among all other new features, you learn how to stream your Windows Azure Web Site’s application logs into Visual Studio. It...
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Knockout IntelliSense Highlighting Bug Fix
We introduced Knockout IntelliSense in Visual Studio 2012 for web projects with KnockoutJS included, and fixed a few bugs in VS Update 1 and 2. However, one bug was not fixed in VS Update 2 and is...
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ASP.NET updates to support Windows Azure Active Directory
Today we released an update to the Visual Studio 2013 Preview which enables you to create ASP.NET applications which use Windows Azure Active Directory for authentication.In this post I will describe;...
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Announcing release of ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Preview...
I’m excited to show the new features of the ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Preview. I’m also announcing the release of ASP.NET and Web Tools Refresh for Visual Studio 2013 Preview. This...
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HTML Editing Features in Visual Studio 2013 Preview
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...
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Adding External Logins to your ASP.NET application in Visual Studio 2013
The project templates showcase a way of logging in with external login providers, along with the normal way of logging in by creating a local accountThis post highlights how you can turn on support for...
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Introducing ASP.NET Identity – A membership system for ASP.NET applications
ASP.NET Identity is the new membership system for building ASP.NET web applications. ASP.NET Identity allows you to add login features to your application and makes it easy to customize data about the...
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Browser Link feature in Visual Studio Preview 2013
Browser Link is just a channel between your Visual Studio IDE and any open browser. This will allow dynamic data exchange between your web application and Visual Studio.This feature is enabled by...
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Make VS2012 MVC4 VSIX template to work for Visual Studio 2013 preview
Visual Studio 2012.2 supports customized MVC4 template, you can get a walkthrough here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/yjhong/archive/2012/12/13/custom-mvc-4-template-walkthrough.aspx . But the created...
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Fix SPA VB project creating issue for ASP.NET and Web Tools Preview Refresh...
IssueUnfortunately after installing ASP.NET and Web Tools Preview Refresh for Visual Studio 2013 Preview, creating SPA VB template will fail.This post describes how to fix this issue.Option 1: Fix...
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Manage CORS policy dynamically
BriefWe introduced CORS support in ASP.NET Web API a few months ago. Out of the box it supports configuring CORS policy by attributes. It is a very intuitive and powerful way but lacks flexibility at...
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Understanding OWIN Forms authentication in MVC 5
OverviewThe new security feature design for MVC 5 is based on OWIN authentication middleware. The benefit for it is that security feature can be shared by other components that can be hosted on OWIN....
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Introducing $select and $expand support in Web API OData
Last week Microsoft released the preview of Visual Studio 2013, and along with it came the ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Preview. In this new release, we are expanding the OData support...
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How does VS determine which version of Razor engine to use when editing razor...
In VS2013 Preview, we released new Razor V3 runtime and design time Engine to support MVC5 and Razor V3 website’s runtime and design time behavior. Unlike Razor V2 runtime and design time, VS2013 did...
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“Enable Edit and Continue” debugging option is now on by default for new web...
In VS2010 and VS2012, the edit and continue option is disabled by default when creating a new web application project. In VS2013 preview, we turned it on by default. You can find this option on the Web...
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Tracing in ASP.NET MVC Razor Views
System.Diagnostics.Trace can be a useful tool for logging and debugging, and sometimes it would be handy to be able to call one of the tracing methods from a Razor view. For example, when an MVC...
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Writing Web API Client Code for Multiple Platforms Using Portable Libraries
The Microsoft ASP.NET Web API Client Libraries make it easy to write .NET clients that interact with RESTful HTTP services. Unfortunately, until recently the Web API client libraries did not support...
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Publish HTML/JS website to Linux/Apache using Visual Studio
We received a question about how to use Visual Studio to deploy HTML/JS website to Linux / Apache. To do it, you need to create an empty ASP.NET website project in Visual Studio (File->New Web...
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Katana License Lifts Windows-only Restriction
(cross-posted from http://codebetter.com/howarddierking/2013/07/23/katana-license-lifts-windows-only-restriction/)Over the past few months, a great deal of attention has been paid to the following...
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EF/MVC Series updated to EF5/MVC4
Tom Dykstra and I have updated Tom’s popular EF/MVC series to the latest release, that is MVC 4 and EF 5. The biggest change was the addition of code first migrations. What’s great about the updated...
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