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Announcing the Release of ASP.NET MVC 5.2, Web API 2.2 and Web Pages 3.2

The NuGet packages for ASP.NET MVC 5.2, ASP.NET Web API 2.2 and ASP.NET Web Pages 3.2 are now live on the NuGet gallery!Download this releaseYou can install or update the NuGet packages for ASP.NET MVC 5.2, ASP.NET Web API 2.2 and ASP.NET Web Pages 3.2 using the NuGet Package Manager Console, with the following commands: Prerequisites for ...

dotnetConf is on! Free virtual conference.

The free, virtual and community-driven dotnetConf is on. Point your web-browser to dotnetConf. No registration, manager approval or anything required! The virtual conference is two days long. Check out the schedule to find talks that interest you. Join the community, online and in the dotnetConf JabbR room.   (image)  ...

Would you like a MultiDictionary?

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 ...

ASP.NET vNext Routing Overview

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...

Dependency Injection in ASP.NET vNext

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 ...

.NET Native Deep Dive: Debugging into Interop Code

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 ...

ASP.NET vNext in Visual Studio “14” CTP

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 ...

Announcing web features in Visual Studio “14” CTP

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...