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November 2014 .NET Security Updates

November 11, 2014 Nov 11, 2014 11/11/14
The .NET Fundamentals Team
The .NET team released a security bulletin today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-072 - Important, Vulnerability in .NET Framework Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (3005210)  This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Framework. The ...

Where can you meet the team? November 2014 at AngleBrackets and Connect();

November 7, 2014 Nov 7, 2014 11/7/14
Xinyang Qiu
We’ve got two big events coming up next week. AngleBracketsNov 10th-13th in Vegas is an exciting open-source web conference that’s collocated with DevIntersections. That means you can register for one and attend both! Come see Scotts Hanselman and Scott Guthrie, along with web tooling PM Mads Kristensen and Mohit Srivastava ,&...

Using System.Numerics.Vector for Graphics Programming

November 5, 2014 Nov 5, 2014 11/5/14
Immo Landwerth
We've just released a major update to the SIMD vector types we've blogged about earlier (first announcement, second update). We've now made the vector library a lot more more useful for typical graphics operations. We added matrix types, a plane type, and a quaternion type. We've also added many methods that are often used on fixed size ...

ASP.NET Identity 2.2.0-alpha1

October 23, 2014 Oct 23, 2014 10/23/14
pranav rastogi
We are releasing a preview of ASP.NET Identity 2.2.0-alpha1. The main focus in this release was to fix bugs and address performance issues.Download this releaseYou can download ASP.NET Identity from the NuGet gallery. You can install or update these packages using the NuGet Package Manager Console, like this:Install-Package Microsoft.AspNet....

Microsoft Asp.Net MVC Security Update MS14-059 broke my build!

October 16, 2014 Oct 16, 2014 10/16/14
miguel
Microsoft just released a new security update to be automatically applied to machines configured to use Microsoft Update.  The security bulletin is available here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms14-059Unfortunately, some ASP.NET MVC 3 and 4 VS projects can no longer build after the update is applied. These projects...

Announcing new Web Features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 RC

October 16, 2014 Oct 16, 2014 10/16/14
Xinyang Qiu
Today, the Visual Studio team announced the release of Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 RC.  Our team added a few useful features and did some bug fixing in this update to improve the web development experience. Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.4 RC JSON Editor Improvement We made a few improvements in the JSON editor, including ...

October 2014 .NET Security Updates

October 13, 2014 Oct 13, 2014 10/13/14
The .NET Fundamentals Team
The .NET team released a security bulletin today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-057 - Critical, Vulnerabilities in the .NET Framework could allow remote code execution (3000414)  This security update resolves three privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft .NET Framework...

_references.js file’s auto sync feature

October 10, 2014 Oct 10, 2014 10/10/14
Xinyang Qiu
In VS2013 RTM, we shipped a not well known feature for _references.js file: /// <autosync enabled="true" />. If we specify /// <autosync enabled="true" /> in the beginning of ~/scripts/_references.js, then any addition, rename, deletion of JavaScript files in the project will automatically change the content ...