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What's New in ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012

jQRangeSlider is a jquery UI range selection slider that supports dates. This slider is developed by ghusse and it's available on GitHub. Check the below demo and download links. Demo: http://ghusse.github.com/jQRangeSlider/stable/demo/ Download: https://github.com/ghusse/jQRangeSlider/archives/master Home: http://ghusse.github.com/jQRangeSlider/

Debugger Canvas is a new user experience for the debugger in Visual Studio Ultimate. It pulls together the code you’re exploring onto a single pan-and-zoom display. As you hit breakpoints or step into code, Debugger Canvas shows just the methods that you’re debugging, with call lines and local variables, to help you see the bigger picture. Debugger Canvas is the result of a collaboration between Brown University and Microsoft, integrating ideas from Brown University’s Code Bubbles project into Visual Studio. Try out Debugger Canvas , a new user experience for the debugger in Visual Studio Ultimate.

The Ajax Control Toolkit is now available from NuGet . This makes it super easy to add the latest version of the Ajax Control Toolkit to any Web Forms application. If you haven't used NuGet yet, then you are missing out on a great tool which you can use with Visual Studio to add new features to an application. You can use NuGet with both ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web Forms applications. NuGet is compatible with both Websites and Web Applications and it works with both C# and VB.NET applications.

The Web Platform and Tools team (WPT) is released an Alpha of the ASP.NET Universal Providers that will extend Session, Membership, Roles and Profile support to SQL Compact Edition and SQL Azure. Other than supporting additional storage options, the providers work like the existing SQL-based providers. Download and Install : ASP.NET Universal Providers 1.0.1