asp.net-4.5

Build ASP.NET 4.5 without Visual Studio on Build Server

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To run on on your CI server without Visual Studio, you only need to copy a few folders from a development machine to the same location on the CI server. There is no need to install the SDK. VS 2015: C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v14.0\Web C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v14.0\WebApplications VS 2013: C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v12.0\Web C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v12.0\WebApplications VS … Read more

Why is my ClaimsIdentity IsAuthenticated always false (for web api Authorize filter)?

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The problem is because of a breaking change in .Net 4.5. As explained by this article, simply constructing a claims identity no longer makes it IsAuthenticated return true. Instead, you need to pass some string (doesn’t matter what) into the constructor. So this line in the above code: var claimsIdentity = new ClaimsIdentity( claims ); … Read more

Using Grunt, Bower, Gulp, NPM with Visual Studio 2015 for a ASP.NET 4.5 Project

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While Liviu Costea’s answer is correct, it still took me quite some time to figure out how it is actually done. So here is my step-by-step guide starting from a new ASP.NET 4.5.2 MVC project. This guide includes client-side package management using bower but does not (yet) cover bundling/grunt/gulp. Step 1 (Create Project) Create a … Read more