Introducing New Release Candidate Update For Visual Studio 2013

Introduction

The Microsoft ASP.NET Team revealed an update for Visual Studio 2013 in the Release Candidate Update for the Visual Studio 2013.2. The CTP2 of Visual Studio 2013 Update had been released in the previous month and I've also posted an article about it.

In the same context, I am describing all the features and tools released with the new RC update of Visual Studio 2013. There are some new features added to this release, listed below:

JSON Intellisense for JSON schema
Newly updated ASP.NET Web Project dialog
New dialog for installing a certificate for IIS Express to prevent SSL warnings

Prerequisites

This update requires Visual Studio 2013.

Download

You can easily download this update for Visual Studio 2013.

The following is an explaination of all the new features.

New One ASP.NET Web Project Templates

The templates existing in One ASP.NET have some changes, listed below:

The new ASP.NET Project Templates now supports the Account Confirmation and Password Reset.
The new ASP.NET Web API now supports authentication using on Premises Organizational Accounts.

Enhanced Web Editor

The following are the various web editor improvements in this release:

New JSON Editor
New SCSS Editor
URL picker in HTML and CSS
More features added to the LESS Editor
Knockout Intellisense improvements in the HTML Editor.

Browser Link Dashboard

Improved source mapping
Now supports HTTPS connections and displays them on the Dashboard

Support of Windows Azure Web Sites

Now Visual Studio supports the Windows Azure Web Sites. Now you can:

Sign in for Azure support
Remote debugging for WAWS
View Remotely
Support to create the Azure Web Sites

Web Publishing

Now the website publishing is improved so that any developer can easily publish.

ASP.NET Scaffolding

Support for Enum. Now the scaffolding will generate the EnumDropDownList for Enum in Model
New MVC 5.1 and Web API packages installed

NuGet 2.8 Version

The total 2.8 RTM version of NuGet is now available.

Improved ASP.NET Web Forms

The new ASP.NET Web Forms now accesses Account Confirmation and Password Reset for the ASP.NET Identity
New features of Entity Framework 6: Entity Framework Data Source and Dynamic Data Provider

ASP.NET MVC 5.1

New features were released in this new ASP.NET MVC 5.1. They are:

New Attribute Routing
Bootstrap Support for editor templates
Enum Support in View
Unobtrusive validation for MinLength and MaxLength attributes

ASP.NET Web API 2.1

Global error handling
Improved Attribute Routing
Support if IgnoreRoute
BSON media formatters
async filter support

Entity Framework 6.1

Tooling Consolidation: Ability to choose to create a code first model and so on.
IndexAttribute: Used as an attribute on a property in the model.
Public mapping API: Access the EF information of how properties are mapped to columns and tables.
DatabaseLogger: It is a new interceptor with which we can easily log all database operations on a file.
Migrations are now accurate when scaffolding.

ASP.NET Identity 2.0.0- Beta 1

Two-Factor Authentication: It provides an extra layer of security. See this.
Account Confirmation
Password Reset
Security Token Provider
Indexing on UserName
Password Validator
DbContextFactory Middleware

ASP.NET SignalR

Many bug fixes are in this release.

OWIN Components

Many bug fixes are in Microsoft OWIN Components in this release.

Summary

This articles provided notes on the release of the Release Candidate Update 2 for the Visual Studio 2013. You can get this update of using the features defined above. Thanks for reading and Stay Updated.