Azure Web Site now supports WebSockets
If you missed the announcement the other day, WebSockets are now supported in Windows Azure Web Sites. Let's try it with a sample SignalR application.Create an Azure Web SiteLogin to...
View ArticleASP.NET Performance: Prefetch and Multi-Core Jitting
Editor note: This blog is originally published by Jose Reyes - ASP.NET on 02-29-2012 in Web Performance Blog, which will be obsolete soon. Future ASP.NET related performance blogs will be posted...
View ArticleASP.NET Performance: Managed runtime loader
Editor note: This blog is originally published by Jose Reyes - ASP.NET on 02-29-2012 in Web Performance Blog, which will be obsolete soon. Future ASP.NET related performance blogs will be posted...
View ArticleASP.NET Performance: Debugging W3WP Startup
Editor note: This blog is originally published by Christy Henriksson on 03-19-2012 in Web Performance Blog, which will be obsolete soon. Future ASP.NET related performance blogs will be posted here.On...
View ArticleASP.NET Performance: Performance Counters on Windows Client + IIS Express
Editor note: This blog is originally published by Christy Henriksson on 09-12-2012 in Web Performance Blog, which will be obsolete soon. Future ASP.NET related performance blogs will be posted here.I...
View ArticleAnnouncing release of ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.1 for Visual Studio 2012
We have released ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.1 for Visual Studio 2012. This release brings a ton of great improvements, and include some fantastic enhancements to ASP.NET MVC 5, Web API 2, Scaffolding...
View ArticleBuilding Browser Link extension in Visual Studio 2013
Browser Link feature in Visual Studio 2013 provides APIs for you to write your own Browser Link Extension. To take a look at some of the extensions, you can download Web Essentials for Visual Studio...
View ArticleDebugging OWIN app or framework
DiagnosticsThe Microsoft.Owin.Diagnostics nuget package contains a welcome page and an error page. The UseWelcomePage extensions can be used to add a simple html page to your application to verify the...
View ArticleUnit testing OWIN applications using TestServer
Unit testing OWIN applications using TestServerUnit testing a OWIN application (pipeline) can be as simple as calling WebApp.Start<T>() on a Startup class. For example here is a simple OWIN...
View ArticleModified ASP.NET 4.5 CPU Throttling
A while back, Jose blogged about the CPU throttling feature in ASP.NET 4.5. As described in the original post, this feature is intended to correct negative scaling in server throughput when handling...
View ArticleInstant Azure Caching with MVC
In this blog post I’ll take my MVC Movie app and in 15 minutes connect it to the preview Windows Azure Cache service. The image below shows the details of a movie along with timing data (1.4...
View ArticleRelease Candidates for ASP.NET MVC 5.1, Web API 2.1 and Web Page 3.1.
Today we shipped release candidates for ASP.NET MVC 5.1, ASP.NET Web Pages 3.1 and Web API 2.1 to the NuGet gallery. In this release we are previewing some of the runtime features in ASP.NET and Web...
View ArticleASP.NET December 2013 Security Updates
Today is Patch Tuesday, and the ASP.NET team would like to announce that we have two items included in this month’s release. The first is a bulletin affecting certain versions of SignalR; the second is...
View ArticleNew tutorial for migrating applications with membership and User Profile...
ASP.NET Identity is the new membership system for building ASP.NET applications. To learn more about ASP.NET Identity, please visit asp.net/identity The new tutorial explains how to migrate an...
View ArticleBuilding a basic Web Forms application using Visual Studio 2013
In a previous blog post, we have described the different options you have when creating a new web application with Visual Studio 2013 (VS 2013) and provided an overview of the various ASP.NET features...
View ArticleUpdating ASP.NET applications from ASP.NET Identity 1.0 to 2.0.0-alpha1
We released the 2.0.0-alpha1 version for ASP.NET Identity. Learn more here http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2013/12/20/announcing-preview-of-microsoft-aspnet-identity-2-0-0-alpha1.aspxOne of the...
View ArticleAnnouncing preview of Microsoft.AspNet.Identity 2.0.0-alpha1
Today, we are releasing a preview of ASP.NET Identity. The main focus in this release was to fix issues with the 1.0 release and build upon the 1.0 Framework to add more features such as Account...
View ArticleHow to customize the generated files from the New Scaffolded Item dialog
In Visual Studio 2013 we introduced the Add New Scaffolded Item dialog. This dialog replaced the Add View/Add Controllers ASP.NET MVC dialog which was had in 2012. This new dialog works for all ASP.NET...
View ArticleImplementing custom password policy using ASP.NET Identity
We recently released the 2.0.0-alpha1 version of ASP.NET Identity. Learn more here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2013/12/20/announcing-preview-of-microsoft-aspnet-identity-2-0-0-alpha1.aspxTo...
View ArticleAnnouncing E-book version of Scott Guthrie’s “Building Real-World Cloud Apps...
We have published online and downloadable e-book versions of Scott Guthrie’s presentation titled Building Real-World Cloud Apps with Windows Azure (original video version is available here: part 1,...
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