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How to use XDT in NuGet – Examples and Facts

October 24, 2013 Oct 24, 2013 10/24/13
danliu-nuget
Starting with NuGet 2.6, XML-Document-Transform (XDT) is supported to transform XML files inside a project. The XDT syntax can be utilized in the .install.xdt and .uninstall.xdt file(s) under the package’s Content folder, which will be applied during package installation and uninstallation time, respectively. One of XDT’s greatest ...

Adding Core References Support in an ASP.NET Empty Project

October 22, 2013 Oct 22, 2013 10/22/13
Xueyuan Dai
Adding Core References Support in an ASP.NET Empty Project Brief In Visual Studio 2013 we introduced the core reference framework to ASP.NET project creation. You can choose what core references you want in your to-be-created project. How Let’s take the example of adding Web API core references in an Empty ASP.NET Project ...

Building a simple ToDo application with ASP.NET Identity and associating Users with ToDoes

October 20, 2013 Oct 20, 2013 10/20/13
pranav rastogi
Hello everyone. I was prompted to write this post from a comment I received on http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2013/10/17/announcing-release-of-asp-net-and-web-tools-for-visual-studio-2013.aspx. I am pasting the comment verbatim from the post “I'm having a lot of difficulty integrating the IdentityDbContext with other DbContexts to ...

Announcing release of ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013

October 17, 2013 Oct 17, 2013 10/17/13
Xinyang Qiu
I’m excited to show the new features of ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013. Visit Somasegar’s blog for details on Visual Studio 2013 RTW. Download Visual Studio 2013 to try out the new features in this release. Read the Visual Studio blog for information about general editor enhancements, including the preview time ...

.NET Framework 4.5.1 RTM => start coding

October 17, 2013 Oct 17, 2013 10/17/13
.NET Team
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is unsupported. Updated (July 2015): See Announcing .NET Framework 4.6 to read about the latest version of the NET Framework. Today, we’re announcing the availability of the .NET Framework 4.5.1 and Visual Studio 2013 (Soma’s blog). You can ...

Attribute Routing in ASP.NET MVC 5

October 17, 2013 Oct 17, 2013 10/17/13
Ken Egozi
Routing is how ASP.NET MVC matches a URI to an action. MVC 5 supports a new type of routing, called attribute routing. As the name implies, attribute routing uses attributes to define routes. Attribute routing gives you more control over the URIs in your web application. The earlier style of routing, called convention-based routing, is still ...

NuGet is a .NET framework release vehicle

October 16, 2013 Oct 16, 2013 10/16/13
.NET Team
This post describes how the .NET team uses NuGet and how discoverability and serviceability have improved in the .NET Framework 4.5.1. It was written by Alok Shriram, a Program Manager on the .NET Core Framework Team.  Update: Read PCL and .NET NuGet Libraries are now enabled for Xamarin to learn more about how our NuGet packages ...

Get more information from Social providers used in the VS 2013 project templates

October 16, 2013 Oct 16, 2013 10/16/13
pranav rastogi
When you create a New ASP.NET Project in VS 2013 and choose Individual Accounts, the template shows how you can login with Social providers such as Microsoft Account, Facebook, Google and Twitter. When you login with these Social Providers such as Facebook, you can request more information about the user such as the User’s picture, friends ...

ASP.NET features in New Project Templates in Visual Studio 2013

October 16, 2013 Oct 16, 2013 10/16/13
pranav rastogi
The New Project Templates in VS 2013 show case the best practices when it comes to using ASP.NET. The project templates provide a good starting point which a developer can build upon or use them as a guide to see how the features are being used. As the ASP.NET framework gets richer with features, it is important for us to make these features ...