Introduction We 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 few bug fixes. To learn more about the Alpha release...

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 added lots of features. Please read about 2.0.0-alpha1...

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 Framework 6 - EntityDataSource control...

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 release You can install or update to the released NuGet packages for ASP.NET MVC 5.1, ASP.NET Web API 2.1 and 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 blog post Setting Up an ASP.NET Project with Organizational...

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, mappings, and inheritance relationships. You can also use...

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 , part 2 ). Along with the e-book we published...

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.aspx To provide a more secure user experience for the...

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 projects (MVC, Web Forms and Web API). This is one...

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 Confirmation, Password Reset etc. Please read the known...

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.aspx One of the features in this version is Account Confirmation...

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 and NuGet packages present in the templates. In...

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 application that uses Universal Providers for user and...

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 an advisory affecting ASP.NET Web Forms (.aspx) applications...

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 Tools 2013.2, which will include a broader set of updates...

Warning: Most of the information in this blog is for the Preview edition and should not be used or targeted for production code . Use the In-Role Cache for production code. In this blog post I’ll take my MVC Movie app and in 15 minutes connect it to the...

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 async requests on a server with saturated CPU. Now...

Unit testing OWIN applications using TestServer Unit 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 pipeline: using Microsoft.Owin.Hosting; using Microsoft...

Diagnostics The 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 site is up and running. The UseErrorPage extensions...

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 2013 RTM. In this blog, I will give you a step by step...

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 and Entity Framework to users of Visual Studio 2012...

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 learned recently that ASP.NET performance counters...

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 a few occasions, I have needed to debug the startup...

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 here. Introduction There is a file called aspnet...

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 here. Introduction. A couple of new features are...