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Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – March 15, 2016

March 16, 2016 Mar 16, 2016 03/16/16
Jeffrey Fritz
This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup.  The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams covering the accomplishments of the team on the new ASP.NET Core framework over the previous week.  Within 30 ...

Get Started with ASP.NET Core Authorization – Part 1 of 2

March 15, 2016 Mar 15, 2016 03/15/16
Jeffrey Fritz
After learning about Authentication in ASP.NET Core, our intrepid reporter Seth Juarez wanted to dig deeper into the ASP.NET Authorization story.  In the following video, he speaks with ASP.NET Security Analyst Barry Dorrans.  Notes and links from their discussion follow. Authorization verifies that a user is permitted to access...

The week in .NET – 3/15/2016

March 15, 2016 Mar 15, 2016 03/15/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET - 3/8/2016. On.NET Last week, we had Nick Craver on the show to talk about StackOverflow. It was lots of fun, and I highly recommend watching if you're interested in getting an inside look at how StackOverflow is being maintained and kept a high-performance site. Exceptionally this week, we won'...

Announcing v16.1 of the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

March 14, 2016 Mar 14, 2016 03/14/16
Jeffrey Fritz
We are very happy to announce along with our partners at DevExpress, a new version of the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit is now available.  This version, labeled 16.1 delivers some documentation improvements, tutorials, and some long requested updates for existing controls. This is the one year anniversary of the stewardship of the AJAX ...

First Look: Authentication in ASP.NET Core

March 11, 2016 Mar 11, 2016 03/11/16
Jeffrey Fritz
With the coming changes in ASP.NET Core, our friend and intrepid reporter Seth Juarez sat down with ASP.NET Program Manager Pranav Rastogi to discuss the updates and improvements in the new ASP.NET Core authentication system: Here are some of the highlights of their discussion and some sample code to get you started: Pranav gave a quick ...

Web Extension Pack for Visual Studio 2015

March 9, 2016 Mar 9, 2016 03/9/16
Mads Kristensen
The Visual Studio extensibility ecosystem has been steadily growing in the past years and the community has built some really great extensions. Some of these extensions are specific to web development scenarios and are useful to almost all web developers using Visual Studio. (image) The only problem is to find all these relevant extensions...

Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – March 8, 2016

March 9, 2016 Mar 9, 2016 03/9/16
Jeffrey Fritz
This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup.  The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams covering the accomplishments of the team on the new ASP.NET Core framework over the previous week.  Within 30 ...

The week in .NET – 3/8/2016

March 8, 2016 Mar 8, 2016 03/8/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 3/1/2016. On.NET Last week, Rachel Reese was on the show to talk about her work with F# at Jet.com. This week, we'll talk performance with Nick Craver, who works for StackOverflow. Project of the week: Humanitarian Toolbox's allReady allReady is a project managed by the charity organization ...

On .NET 3/3/2016 – Rachel Reese on F# at Jet.com

March 8, 2016 Mar 8, 2016 03/8/16
Bertrand Le Roy
Our guest this week is Rachel Reese, to talk about Jet.com, and about how they use F# to build their micro-service architecture. Jet.com can be found at... https://jet.com/ Rachel's talk at fsharpConf 2016. Try F#: http://www.tryfsharp.org/ Rachel's Hanselminutes interview. I made a mistake near the end of the show, saying ...

Announcing ASP.NET WebHooks Release Candidate 1

March 5, 2016 Mar 5, 2016 03/5/16
Henrik F Nielsen
We are very excited to announce the availability of ASP.NET WebHooks Release Candidate 1. Thank you for all the positive feedback, suggestions, pull requests, and comments to date – they are essential to the process so keep them coming! < p>WebHooks provide a simple mechanism for sending event notifications across web applications ...