This week we published a new getting-started tutorial with sample project for Azure Cloud Services on the azure.microsoft.com site. This is a multi-tier application that uses Azure SQL Database and Azure Storage queues and blobs.  It’s designed to...

At TechEd we announced our plans and vision for ASP.NET vNext. ASP.NET vNext is being designed from the bottom up to be a lean and composable .NET stack for building web and cloud based applications. You can find an overview of ASP.NET vNext and walkthroughs...

The Visual Studio team released Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RTM . As part of this update we have added new features for ASP.NET Web Forms. This post will highlight some of the improvements done in ASP.NET Web Forms which are part of this release and some...

Today, we are pleased to announce a preview release of ASP.NET Session State Provider for Redis. You can use it with your own Redis server or the newly announce Microsoft Azure Redis Cache (Preview) . What is Redis Redis is an open source, BSD licensed...

The .NET languages team recently announced the availability and open sourcing of a public preview of “Roslyn”, the new .NET Compiler Platform . This is the long awaited .NET “compiler as a service” that represents the future of languages and compilation...

Today, the Visual Studio team announced the release of RTM 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 development experience. This blog will contain all of the...

A few months ago, we posted that we were making changes to the way EnableViewStateMac behaves in ASP.NET. I’ll forego the typical blog post ceremony and cut right to the chase: Starting with ASP.NET 4.5.2, the runtime enforces EnableViewStateMac=true...

Agility, flexibility and composition : Unlike traditional ASP.NET, Katana decouples components, which are independently updatable by NuGet. Rather being restricted to the functionality built into your server or framework, you can now compose together...

In the previous post , we introduced our new JSON editor in the CTP 2 release of Visual Studio 2013 Update2. In the RC version of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 , we added intellisense support for JSON Schema v3 and v4. This will make working with complex...

To deploy a Code First database to an Azure Web Site, you can use the Execute Code First Migrations check box in the Publish Web wizard: When you select that check box, Visual Studio configures the destination web site so that Entity Framework automatically...

With the release of Visual Studio 2013 last October, we introduced the concept of Scaffolding to Web Application projects.   Scaffolding is the framework on which code generation for MVC and WebAPI is built.   For more information on Scaffolding...

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 development experience. This blog will contain all of the...

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 WS-Federation support, and a brand-new feature...

We are releasing an update to Windows Azure WebJobs SDK introduced by Scott Hanselman here . Download this release You can download WebJobs SDK in a console application project from the NuGet gallery. You can install or update to these packages...

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 community. Download this release You can download ASP.NET...

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 been released in the past few months. The OData v4...

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 hands now. You will find the PDF document very similar...

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 suggestions. New Entity Framework 6 features covered...

Today, we are pleased to announce RTM of ASP.NET Dynamic Data and EntityDataSource control for EntityFramework 6 What’s in this release - Dynamic Data provider for Entity Framework 6 - EntityDataSource control for Entity Framework 6 ...

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 validation. More features will be added during subsequent...

Update 4/21/2014: please see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2014/04/02/announcing-new-web-features-in-visual-studio-2013-update-2-rc.aspx for Update 2 RC web features. Today, the Visual Studio team announced the release of CTP2 of Visual Studio...

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 Directory teams have been busy collaborating on a new...

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 two-factor authentication along with a few bug fixes. To learn more about the Alpha release...

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 the main post. I encourage reading...

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 pipeline. This was a relatively quiet event without...