Read Azure AD in Visual Studio 2013

I am working on a Room App, which is simply used to let user know if the room is free/busy and display all the custom attributes along with room capacity. While using online Exchange I came across that capacity and custom attributes are stored in Active
Directory. So I thought of using Azure Active Directory, but again got stuck on how to use it in the code, as Call Graph API configuration and development in Visual Studio 2012 and 2013 is different. Can anybody help me or point me to a blog where I can configure
my application to use VS2013 and Active Directory.

Hi,
I did went through exactly as mentioned in your link, but even there too, querying for the User details, didn't give me either the capacity or custom attributes. Please do let me know how to proceed further.
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Name and UnitOfMeasure, but it could have anything else you wanted. An example that comes to mind might be the URL to a page on Wikipedia about it, or maybe a URL to an appropriate image or … whatever you dream of here.
So then when using them in the other classes, “Calcium” would, itself, be an object which has a name (“Calcium”), a unit-of-measure
(maybe “milligram”), and so on.
It’s a lot to take in all at once and even this is something you may want to reread, but do give it thought. Let me know what
methods you want in the classes which will help you in your user’s program.
Still lost in code, just at a little higher level.

Visual Studio 2013 problem setting localhost alias in IIS Express

I'm trying to define an alias to localhost in development ambient in Visual Studio 2013.
When I used previous versions of Visual Studio, I used the Visual Studio Development Server to debug and the only thing I needed to do was to change my hosts file adding this entry:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhostalias
I'm having problems to do this with VS2013. I've browsed all over the internet and I've tried the following things, but I'd like someone of you to tell me what am I doing wrong. I've obviously already changed the hosts file...
In the web project Properties -> Web in the section Servers where IIS Express is selected as default, I tried changing http://localhost:53944 to http://localhostalias:53944 but an error is showed saying: "Unable to create the virtual directory. Cannot
create the Web site 'http://localhostalias:53944'. You must specify "localhost" for the server name".
I also tried changing the applicationhost.config which is located in <<Documents>>\IISExpress\config to
<site name="<<Site name>>" id="2">
<application path="/" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
<virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="<<Site Path>>" />
</application>
<bindings>
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:53944:*" />
</bindings>
</site>
And when I opened the project it was changed to
<site name="<<Site name>>" id="2">
<application path="/" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
<virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="<<Site Path>>" />
</application>
<bindings>
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:53944:*" />
</bindings>
</site>
<site name="<<Site name>>(1)" id="3">
<application path="/" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
<virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="<<Site Path>>" />
</application>
<bindings>
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:53944:localhost" />
</bindings>
</site>
Can someone help me?
Thanks in advance,
Camilo

Hello Camilo,
This forum supports "setup and deployment of .NET Framework.", if there is something about the installation of .NET Framework, you can post it here. I read your post and I think you should post it under
IIS forum instead.
Regards,
Barry Wang
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Visual Studio 2013 Express for Windows - InitializeComponent() does not contain a definition issue

Hi,
I have recently downloaded Visual Studio 2013 Express for Windows (Windows Store App version), with Update 1.
I create a blank app. I right-click on InitializeComponent() in the MainPage.xaml.cs and select Go To Definition. It brings me to the .g.i.cs file where this method resides.
I go into the designer for MainPage.xaml and create a grid of 2 rows and 2 columns (all at 1*). I add one button, doesn't matter where. I double click on that button to add a click method to MainPage.xaml.cs. Without entering anything into the button click
method, I scroll up and InitializeComponent() has an error and tells me there is not definition, even though I was looking at the definition a minute ago. I found I could unload the project and reload it and InitializeComponent() would have the definition
in the .g.i.cs file but as soon as I add another button click or anything else I run into the same error. It seems as if the .g.i.cs file is not automatically regenerating, or it is being deleted all together when the button click method is added to the xaml.cs
file.
Everything I have done up to this point is very vanilla. I installed VS '13 Express for Windows, didn't change any VS setting, created a project and ran into this issue. I installed Update 1 thinking there might be a fix from the update--no luck. The xaml
file Build Action is Page and the Xaml.cs file is Compile.
I have tried deleting the MainPage.xaml file, after the creation of a project, and adding a new MainPage file with the added templates VS wants to include, and I still run into the same issue.
I have searched for answers the past few days but haven't found anything that addresses my issue (most of what I found addresses VS '10 but their InitializeComponent() issues aren't the same as mine). Any help the MSDN community can provide would be
a great help. If worst comes to worst, I will re-install VS and see if that corrects it--this would be a last-ditch effort though.
Thank you for any help you may be able to provide

Intellisense has a bug in VS2013 where it doesn't recognize InitializeComponent when you start working on the XAML. My feeling is that if you try to compile this app, it will run fine (as long as there are no actual errors).
Matt Small - Microsoft Escalation Engineer - Forum Moderator
If my reply answers your question, please mark this post as answered.
NOTE: If I ask for code, please provide something that I can drop directly into a project and run (including XAML), or an actual application project. I'm trying to help a lot of people, so I don't have time to figure out weird snippets with undefined
objects and unknown namespaces.

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