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We've recently found ourselves answering the same question repeatedly: How do you monitor nuget.org? If you too are interested, here are the details. Monitoring Approaches We have two approaches for monitoring the gallery: External Monitoring For our external monitoring, we use Pingdom. You can see our public Pingdom status page at http://...

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We’ve recently shipped new collection types on NuGet with our Immutable Collections package. NuGet allows us to ship prerelease and experimental versions of libraries to gather feedback from the community. In this post, our software developer intern Ian Hays will talk about his intern project: an experimental NuGet package containing advanced...

Introduction The ASP.NET Routing system is primarily responsible for two operations: A typical route definition is a string that contains a URL template to match, such as: "blog/{year}-{month}-{day}/{slug}" With the URL template, the route definition can also contain default values and constraints for parts of the URL. Thi...

Dependency Injection (DI) is a software design pattern, a particular case of the Inversion of Control pattern, in which one or more dependencies are injected into dependent objects. The pattern is used to create program designs that are loosely coupled and testable. This article assumes that you are already familiar with DI. If not, you can read t...

This post was authored by Yi Zhang, a Senior Software Development Engineer on the .NET Native team. .NET Native and MCG At this point, you’ve probably seen the .NET Native announcement and some of our other .NET Native blog posts. We’ve talked about how .NET Native brings you the productivity of C#, but also with the performance of C+...

Over the past several months Facebook made changes to their application development APIs that were incompatible with the MVC Facebook support. We have been working on updates while the Facebook API kept evolving, and on 4/30/2014 Facebook announced a two-year stability guarantee. This was a fantastic announcement because this ensured a similar sta...

Stack Overflow is loaded with questions on how to reliably run a resource-intensive process on a background thread. See  so0, so1, so2, so3, so4, so5, so6, so7, so8, so9, so10 . Examples of long-running tasks include sending email, image processing, and generating a PDF file. When Phil Haack was a program manager on the ASP.NET MVC team, he wr...

A few weeks ago at TechEd North America we announced ASP.NET vNext. Today we are releasing the first preview of Visual Studio “14” CTP, which will have support for creating and debugging ASP.NET vNext applications. This post will cover what is ASP.NET vNext and give you a walkthrough of what you can do in this preview. ASP.NET vNext has been desig...

Today, the Visual Studio team announced the release of Visual Studio “14” CTP version 14.0.21730.1 DP.  Our team added features to support ASP.NET vNext development.  We will have future blogs to talk about some of the features in detail.  Note, Visual Studio side by side support is not available on this early build. Do n...