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SignalR and user identity (authentication and authorization)
There are too many authentication types (Basic, Windows, Cookie, OAuth) to explain how to use all of them. In this sample, I focus on using Cookie Authentication to secure a website, a Persistent...
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Introducing Web Development and Tooling TV
We are very proud to present the first episode on our brand new Channel9 show – Web Development and Tooling TV. In this episode we talk to Scott Hunter who’s a Principal Group Program Manager on the...
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ASP.NET features in New Project Templates in Visual Studio 2013
The New Project Templates in VS 2013 show case the best practices when it comes to using ASP.NET. The project templates provide a good starting point which a developer can build upon or use them as a...
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Customizing profile information in ASP.NET Identity in VS 2013 templates
ASP.NET Identity is the new membership system for ASP.NET applications. To learn more about ASP.NET Identity please visit...
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Get more information from Social providers used in the VS 2013 project templates
When you create a New ASP.NET Project in VS 2013 and choose Individual Accounts, the template shows how you can login with Social providers such as Microsoft Account, Facebook, Google and Twitter. When...
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Attribute Routing in ASP.NET MVC 5
Routing is how ASP.NET MVC matches a URI to an action. MVC 5 supports a new type of routing, called attribute routing. As the name implies, attribute routing uses attributes to define routes. Attribute...
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Announcing release of ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013
I’m excited to show the new features of ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013. Visit Somasegar’s blog for details on Visual Studio 2013 RTW. Download Visual Studio 2013 to try out the new...
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Building a simple ToDo application with ASP.NET Identity and associating...
Hello everyone. I was prompted to write this post from a comment I received on http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2013/10/17/announcing-release-of-asp-net-and-web-tools-for-visual-studio-2013.aspx....
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Adding Core References Support in an ASP.NET Empty Project
Adding Core References Support in an ASP.NET Empty ProjectBriefIn Visual Studio 2013 we introduced the core reference framework to ASP.NET project creation. You can choose what core references you want...
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How to use XDT in NuGet - Examples and Facts
Starting with NuGet 2.6, XML-Document-Transform (XDT) is supported to transform XML files inside a project. The XDT syntax can be utilized in the .install.xdt and .uninstall.xdt file(s) under the...
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Sending a CORS Request in IE
From the time we added CORS support for ASP.NET WEB API, we have seen many questions on its usage, including questions about sending cross-origin requests (CORS) from IE. IE 10 and higher fully support...
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Web publishing updates for app offline and usechecksum
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...
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New Tutorial Published on Migrating to ASP.NET Identity
ASP.NET Identity is the new membership system for building ASP.NET applications. The new tutorial explains how to migrate an application that uses ASP.NET Membership to the new ASP.NET Identity...
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Tips When Making Changes in Entity Framework Code First Models after Scaffolding
When you scaffold an existing Entity Framework model, using MVC5 scaffolding in Visual Studio 2013, you can easily run into the issue of “The model backing the <DbContextName> context has changed...
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Tutorial series updated for Entity Framework 6 Code First with MVC 5
We have updated our EF Code First / MVC tutorial series to use Visual Studio 2013, Entity Framework 6, and MVC 5. New Entity Framework 6 features covered in these tutorials include:Connection...
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Introducing batch support in Web API and Web API OData
With the release of Microsoft ASP.NET Web API 2 OData, we have introduced support for batching requests. Batching is a web API feature that allows a customer to pack several API requests and send them...
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Remote Debugging a Window Azure Web Site with Visual Studio 2013
In the Azure SDK 2.2 we released remote debugging support for Windows Azure Cloud Services. You can read more about that release at Scott Guthrie’s blog post Windows Azure: Announcing release of...
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A High-Value, Undocumented LESS Editor Feature in Visual Studio
Recently a very valuable, undocumented feature in the Visual Studio LESS editor came to my attention. This applies equally to Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 and later, and to Visual Studio 2013. The...
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OData Scaffolding
With the release of Visual Studio 2013 RTM, we added support for scaffolding OData controllers with Entity Framework. In this blog topic we will cover the following topics • Scaffolding an OData...
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Office Web Apps are using ASP.NET SignalR to power real-time co-authoring
Office Web Apps are now using SignalR as the backend to synchronize changes when two or more people are editing files on SkyDrive or on SharePoint Online. SignalR enables real time communication among...
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