What's New ASP.Net 4.5.1 Visual Studio 2013

What's new in ASP.NET 4.5.1

One ASP.NET

• Unified Dialog
• Scaffolding for everyone
• MVC, Web Forms and Web API together
• New extensible Identity System
• Open Web Interface for .NET (OWIN)

ASP.NET Authentication

MVC 5

Attribute Routing

Attribute routing gives you more control over the URIs in your web application.

The earlier style of routing, called convention-based routing, is still fully supported.

Attribute Routing gives the

[Route("test/helloworld")]

public string HelloWorld()

{

    return "ASP>NET 4.5.1";

}

Filter enhancements

Authentication filters

Authentication filters are a new kind of filter in ASP.NET MVC that run prior to authorization filters in the ASP.NET MVC pipeline.

Filter overrides

You can now override which filters apply to a given action method or controller by specifying an override filter.

Web API

ASP.NET Web API is a framework for building web APIs on top of the .NET Framework.

OAuth 2.0 support, using security middleware running on Open Web Interface for .NET (OWIN).

$expand, $select, and $value options in OData.

$expand causes related entities to be included inline in the response.

GET http://localhost/odata/Categories
GET http://localhost/odata/Categories?$expand=Products
GET http://localhost/odata/Categories(1)?$expand=Products/Ship

$select selects a subset of properties to include in the response.

GET http://localhost/odata/Products?$select=Price,Name

$value gets the raw value of a property.

Summary

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