Over the past several months, we’ve been working on a new set of collection types that offer an immutable design. Today we are happy to announce that we are one step closer to a stable version of this work: we’ve just shipped the release candidate (1.0.23 RC) of the Microsoft.Bcl.Immutable NuGet package. Because we could: an immutabl...
When running Web applications from within Visual Studio, there have generally been two primary hosts available while developing: a local “development” Web server, or a full version of Internet Information Services (IIS). There has also been a “custom server” option, where a path to a server executable could be entered; however, this was not a widel...
We are now making it easier to create a new Windows Azure Web Site from Visual Studio 2013 RC. This feature can be accessed from the Web Sites sub node under the Windows Azure node in Server Explorer. You would need to install Azure SDK 2.1 before you can use this feature. You can follow these steps to create a new Windows Azure Web Site. 1. Impor...
Over the last few months, the Browser Link team has worked on delivering these new features in the Visual Studio 2013 RC release: For those who are not familiar with Browser Link, please look at our introductory blog here. Browser Link Dashboard The Browser Link Dashboard is a tool window in VS that shows all active browser link connec...
Starting September 3rd, some users started having issues uploading packages that contain portable libraries; on September 10th, we deployed a fix to address those issues. Errors Experienced Depending on how you were publishing your package, you would have experienced the errors in a few different ways. Upload Package page on nuget.org If you we...
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 http://www.asp.net/vnext for release notes, documentation, and tutorials. This blog includes both t...
Update (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is unsupported. Update: The .NET Framework 4.5.1 RTM has been released and is available for download. The .NET Framework 4.5.1 RC is now available. It comes with a go-live license, enabling you to deploy 4.5.1 apps in production. Here are the RC bits. Download...
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 And in a cshtml file, the bundle is included as: Code Snippet In local IIS Express debugging mode, I found no problem. So I deployed to Azur...
As Brian Harry recently announced, there will be a Visual Studio 2012 Update 4. With RC2, we’ve updated the NuGet support. In this blog post, I’ll summarize those improvements. Updated NuGet Client The RTM version of Visual Studio 2012 included a fairly old version of the NuGet client (2.0). Although the NuGet team regularly ships upd...
