Download Visual Studio 2013 RC and Windows 8.1 RTM

It's great day to start with new releases. If you didn't try VS 2013 yet then it's the right time to try it out as it improves the productivity by >30%. Windows 8.1 RTM is ready to download via MSDN or Technet subscriptions.

Read more complete article at: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2013/09/09/announcing-the-visual-studio-2013-release-candidate.aspx

MVC support for Apps in SharePoint 2013

Interesting? Yes, it is the most interesting and surprising news in VS2013 preview release. With Visual Studio 2013 preview now you can create Apps in MVC as well. When you are creating a new APP you can select between ASP.NET web forms and ASP.NET MVC.

These options can be available when you choose Auto-Hosted or Provider-Hosted app for SharePoint. We all know the SharePoint-hosted apps won't allow server side programming. :) When you created an app using ASP.NET MVC model then you see the same folders and structure as in mvc web site. Complete model is same as regular MVC implementation. The new things for you might be are the SharePoint filter and context files. The project provides a set of APIs, defined in the Filters\SharePointContextFilterAttribute.cs and Filters\SharePointContextFilterAttribute.vb, and SharePointContext.cs and SharePointContext.vb files for C# and Visual Basic projects respectively...

SharePointContextFilter: Filters can be useful for switching back and forth between SharePoint and remote web application. Mostly when the SharePoint site need authentication etc.

SharePointContext: This is for communicating the App with SharePoint objects.

To test the new implementation you should download the VS 2013 preview now and start doing the innovation things. :) Enjoy the new learning day to day. 

Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013 announcement - TechEd

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