Scaffolding ADO.NET Entity Data Model Designer-based-models
The ADO.NET Entity Data Model Designer (Entity Designer) is a GUI tool for editing Entity Framework models. You can use the Entity Designer to visually create and modify entities, associations,...
View ArticleSome notes on using Organizational Auth with ASP.NET
In Visual Studio 2013 we shipped support for creating new ASP.NET projects which use Windows Azure Active Directory for Organizational Authentication. Vittorio Bertocci has recently written a great...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Release of ASP.NET MVC 5.1, ASP.NET Web API 2.1 and ASP.NET...
The NuGet packages for ASP.NET MVC 5.1, ASP.NET Web API 2.1 and ASP.NET Web Pages 3.1 are now live on the NuGet gallery!Download this releaseYou can install or update to the released NuGet packages for...
View ArticleAnnouncing preview of Dynamic Data provider and EntityDataSource control for...
Today, we are pleased to announce an update to ASP.NET DynamicData and EntityDataSource control, so that they work with Entity Framework 6.What’s in this preview- DynamicData provider for Entity...
View ArticleAnnouncing preview of Microsoft.AspNet.Identity 2.0.0-beta1
Today, we are releasing a preview of ASP.NET Identity. The main focus in this release was to add support for two-factor authentication and fix bugs. We released 2.0.0-alpha1 in December 2013 where we...
View ArticlePer request lifetime management for UserManager class in ASP.NET Identity
IntroductionWe recently released the 2.0.0-beta1 version of ASP.NET Identity. Learn more here by visiting this link. This is an update to 2.0.0-alpha1 and adds the two-factor auth feature along with a...
View ArticleIntroducing ASP.NET Project “Helios”
In late 2013 we made available a prerelease NuGet package which allows running a managed web application directly on top of IIS without going through the normal ASP.NET (System.Web) request processing...
View ArticleSupplemental to ASP.NET Project “Helios”
This is a supplemental document to my earlier Introducing ASP.NET Project “Helios” post. It contains extra information that might be of interest to the advanced developer but which didn’t make it into...
View ArticleAdding two-factor authentication to an application using ASP.NET Identity
IntroductionWe recently released the 2.0.0-beta1 version of ASP.NET Identity. Learn more here by visiting this link. This is an update to 2.0.0-alpha1 and adds two-factor authentication along with a...
View ArticleUsing Claims in your Web App is Easier with the new OWIN Security Components
Hello everybody! My name is Vittorio Bertocci: I am a program manager in the Windows Azure Active Directory team, where I work on developer experience. In the last few months the ASP.NET and Active...
View ArticleAnnouncing new Web Features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP2
Today, the Visual Studio team announced the release of CTP2 of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 . Our team added a few useful features and did some bug fixing in this update to improve the web development...
View ArticleNew JSON editor features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP2
The Customer Tech Preview (CTP2) release of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 contains a new JSON editor. In this release, the JSON editor includes a number of features such as colorization, and JSON syntax...
View ArticleAnnouncing the release of Dynamic Data provider and EntityDataSource control...
Today, we are pleased to announce RTM of ASP.NET Dynamic Data and EntityDataSource control for EntityFramework 6What’s in this release- Dynamic Data provider for Entity Framework 6- EntityDataSource...
View ArticleTutorial Series for Entity Framework 6 MVC 5 Published
We have published the final 3 tutorials in the series on the Entity Framework 6 Code First / MVC 5. At the same time, we updated the first 9 tutorials, adding new material and responding to customer...
View ArticleASP.NET MVC 5 Lifecycle Document Published
Fresh out of the oven is a PDF document that charts the lifecycle of every ASP.NET MVC 5 application. Many of you have requested this document over the years and we're glad to finally put it in your...
View ArticleGetting started with ASP.NET Web API 2.2 for OData v4.0
A few weeks ago we started publishing nightly builds for our initial support in ASP.NET Web API for the OData v4.0 protocol. Our OData v4.0 support is based on the OData Library for OData v4.0 that has...
View ArticleAnnouncing RTM of ASP.NET Identity 2.0.0
Today, we are releasing the final version of ASP.NET Identity 2.0. The main focus in this release was to add security and account management features as well as address feedback from the...
View ArticleAnnouncing 0.2.0-alpha2 preview of Windows Azure WebJobs SDK
We are releasing an update to Windows Azure WebJobs SDK introduced by Scott Hanselman here.Download this releaseYou can download WebJobs SDK in a console application project from the NuGet gallery. You...
View ArticleOWIN security components in ASP.NET: OpenID Connect!
It’s been about a month since we released the first preview of the new claims-based identity programming model in ASP.NET. Yesterday we published a refresh of the preview with lots of improvements in...
View ArticleAnnouncing new web features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC
Today, the Visual Studio team announced the release of RC version of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 . Our team added a few useful features and did some bug fixing in this update to improve the web...
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