ASP.NET Updates

Following with the launch of VS2013 ASP.NET a slew of frameworks were also updated and made available for general download.

Some of the changes include:

- MVC 5:

• Identity – updated to use ASP.Net identity for authentication and identity management.
• Bootstrap – provides a customizable sleek and responsive look and feel.
• Authentication filters – a new kind of authentication filter which allows per-action/controller or globally
• Filter Overrides – override which filters apply to a given action/method/controller

- MVC Web API 2:

• Attribute Routing – ability to have both HTTP verb and action based routing
• OAuth 2.0 – new authorization framework now supported.
• OData Improvements – support for $select, $expand, $batch, and $value
• Request Batching – combines multiple operations into a single HTTP POST request
• Portable ASP.NET Web API Client – create PCL’s that work across Windows and Windows 8 apps.
• Improved Testability – no more bootstrapping, etc…
• IHttpActionResult – encapsulates the result of Web API action methods.
• HttpRequestContext – tracks any state that is tied to the request but is not immediately available.
• CORS – full support for Cross Origin Request Sharing
• OWIN Integration – can be run on any OWIN capable host

- Web Forms:

• One ASP.NET – integrate seamlessly with the new One ASP.NET experience

- Authentication / OWIN and Katana: decouples the web application from the server, making web applications host-agnostic

• New server and host components
  • Microsoft.Owin.Host.HttpListener –uses HttpListener to listen for HTTP requests and direct them into the OWIN pipeline.
  • Microsoft.Owin.Hosting – self-host an OWIN pipeline in a custom process, such as a console application or Windows service.
  • OwinHost – self-host an OWIN pipeline without having to write a custom host application
• New helper libraries and middleware – the new Microsoft.Owin package provides a more user-friendly set of abstractions (e.g., Owin.Extensions, Owin.Types)
• New authentication middleware
  • Microsoft.Owin.Security.ActiveDirectory – authentication using on-premise or cloud-based directory services.
  • Microsoft.Owin.Security.Cookies – authentication using cookies. This package was previously named Microsoft.Owin.Security.Forms.
  • Microsoft.Owin.Security.Facebook – authentication using Facebook’s OAuth-based service.
  • Microsoft.Owin.Security.Google –  authentication using Google’s OpenID-based service.
  • Microsoft.Owin.Security.Jwt –  authentication using JWT tokens.
  • Microsoft.Owin.Security.MicrosoftAccount – authentication using Microsoft accounts.
  • Microsoft.Owin.Security.OAuth – Provides an OAuth authorization server as well as middleware for authenticating bearer tokens.
  • Microsoft.Owin.Security.Twitter – authentication using Twitter’s OAuth-based service.

- Scaffolding: Scaffolding is a code generation framework for ASP.NET Web applications. It makes it easy to add boileplate code to your project that interacts with a data model.