Announcing release of ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 RC I’m excited to show the new features of the ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 RC. Click here to download and install the Visual Studio 2013 RC today. Please check...

I spent some time debuging a ScriptBundle problem last Friday and want to share my experience. The original code in a MVC project App_Start/BundleConfig.cs file: Code Snippet bundles.Add( new ScriptBundle ( "~/bundles/jquery.signalR...

Since the release of NuGet 2.7 with Automatic Package Restore and implicit consent, many developers have adopted the new approach and provided some great feedback on their experiences. Based on that feedback, we have collected a set of tips to help you...

Twelve weeks ago, the Azure Applications Platform & Tools team welcomed us, three college sophomores, Jaspreet Bagga, Jeremiah Jekich, and Melissa McNeill, to Microsoft. As Explorer Interns , we were given the opportunity to experience the three primary...

The NuGet team is excited to announce NuGet 2.7 release, for details please see the release notes published on docs.nuget.org . NuGet 2.7 Features Package Restore by Default (with implicit consent) Automatic Package Restore in Visual...

In an earlier blog post on June 24 th entitled Knockout IntelliSense Highlighting Bug Fix I described a bug fix in the Knockout IntelliSense feature. In that post I recommended installing Windows Azure SDK for .NET (VS 2012) – 2.0 to acquire the...

I’ve written a few blog posts on how to exclude files from publishing/packaging. In each of these posts you’d have to be familiar with MSBuild and the Web Publish process. I’ve been looking for a much simpler way to exclude files/folder from publishing...

As many of you have noticed, the option to select “ASP.Net Web Configuration Manager” is no longer in Visual Studio 2013 Preview. This is due to the removal of the Visual Studio Development Server (or Cassini) from the product. However, we...

I was trying to install MVC4 HotTowel SPA package (MVC4 and Razor v2) on a VS2013 Preview One ASP.NET Web API Project (MVC5 and Razor V3). I blindly let the NuGetNuGet package overwrite all my files including the Views\web.config file, which caused some...

We received feedback that the current 1.2 version SignalR sample Nuget package doesn’t work in an MVC 5 project by default. Here are the repro steps and the necessary change to make it work. 1. Create a C# MVC 5 project in VS2013 Preview ...

In the VS2013 preview MVC5 template, we included Bootstrap and jQuery UI together in the same project. However, some themes of jQuery UI (1.8.24 in the project template) is conflicting with Bootstrap (version 2.3.1 in the project template), especially...

Tom Dykstra and I have updated Tom’s popular EF/MVC series to the latest release, that is MVC 4 and EF 5. The biggest change was the addition of code first migrations .  What’s great about the updated 10 part series is you can download the end of...

(cross-posted from http://codebetter.com/howarddierking/2013/07/23/katana-license-lifts-windows-only-restriction/) Over the past few months, a great deal of attention has been paid to the following clause used in most of the licenses associated with...

We received a question about how to use Visual Studio to deploy HTML/JS website to Linux / Apache. To do it, you need to create an empty ASP.NET website project in Visual Studio (File->New Web Site…) and then include all the HTML/JS files. ...

The Microsoft ASP.NET Web API Client Libraries make it easy to write .NET clients that interact with RESTful HTTP services. Unfortunately, until recently the Web API client libraries did not support all platforms. Because of this limitation, developers...

System.Diagnostics.Trace can be a useful tool for logging and debugging, and sometimes it would be handy to be able to call one of the tracing methods from a Razor view. For example, when an MVC application runs in production, by default MVC catches most...

In VS2010 and VS2012, the edit and continue option is disabled by default when creating a new web application project. In VS2013 preview, we turned it on by default. You can find this option on the Web tab in the web project’s properties window...

In VS2013 Preview, we released new Razor V3 runtime and design time Engine to support MVC5 and Razor V3 website’s runtime and design time behavior. Unlike Razor V2 runtime and design time, VS2013 did not GAC these binaries. Instead, the binaries...

Last week Microsoft released the preview of Visual Studio 2013, and along with it came the ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Preview. In this new release, we are expanding the OData support in Web API to include support for $select and $expand...

Overview The new security feature design for MVC 5 is based on OWIN authentication middleware. The benefit for it is that security feature can be shared by other components that can be hosted on OWIN. Since the Katana team did a great effort to support...

Brief We introduced CORS support in ASP.NET Web API a few months ago . Out of the box it supports configuring CORS policy by attributes. It is a very intuitive and powerful way but lacks flexibility at runtime. Imaging your service allows a 3rd party...

Issue Unfortunately after installing ASP.NET and Web Tools Preview Refresh for Visual Studio 2013 Preview, creating SPA VB template will fail. This post describes how to fix this issue. Option 1: Fix script I authored these two scripts...

Visual Studio 2012.2 supports customized MVC4 template, you can get a walkthrough here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/yjhong/archive/2012/12/13/custom-mvc-4-template-walkthrough.aspx or http://www.asp.net/mvc/overview/getting-started/custom-mvc-templates ....

Browser Link is just a channel between your Visual Studio IDE and any open browser. This will allow dynamic data exchange between your web application and Visual Studio. This feature is enabled by default in Visual Studio 2013 Preview. When Browser Link...

ASP.NET Identity is the new membership system for building ASP.NET web applications. ASP.NET Identity allows you to add login features to your application and makes it easy to customize data about the logged in user. Features Following are some...