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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 control for Entity Framework 6How to installYou can download this release for ASP.NET DynamicData.EFProvider (http://www.nuget.org/packages/Micro...

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 releases. New JSON item template In a web application, you can use the new JSON item temp...

This post announces an updated preview of the .NET team’s new 64-bit Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler. It was written by Mani Ramaswamy, Program Manager for the .NET Dynamic Code Execution Team. Note: RyuJIT CTP3 is available here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/04/03/the-next-generation-of-net.aspx. The developer preview of RyuJIT...

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 2013 Update 2 .  Our team added a few useful features and did some bug fixing in this ...

This post was written by Alok Shriram, Program Manager on the .NET Framework team. He will show you a significantly improved experience around .NET Reference Source. Today I'm very excited to announce that we have an awesome new experience to use the .NET Framework reference source. Browsing .NET Reference Source First of all, most people just w...

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 OWIN-based programming model for securing modern ASP.NET applications. Today I have the privileg...

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, visit this link. As mentioned in the release article, with the 2.0.0-beta1 version of Identity...

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 the original post before continuing.On performance and resource consumptionWhen most...

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 too much fanfare. At last month’s MVA Windows Azure Deep Dive, we spoke about this for the first ...

As part of our continued effort to bring greater transparency for our customers we are going to start posting here whenever we ship any security fixes for the .NET Framework, this is the first such post.The .NET team released a security bulletin earlier this week as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle.Microsoft Security Bulletin M...