Glenn Condron [MSFT], Author at ASP.NET Blog

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.NET Core Workers as Windows Services

March 29th, 2019

In .NET Core 3.0 we are introducing a new type of application template called Worker Service. This template is intended to give you a starting point for writing long running services in .NET Core. In this walkthrough we will create a worker and run it as a Windows Service. Create a worker Preview Note: In our preview releases the worker temp

ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview3 now available

October 17th, 2018

Today we're very happy to announce that the third preview of the next minor release of ASP.NET Core and .NET Core is now available for you to try out. We’ve been working hard on this release, along with many folks from the community, and it’s now ready for a wider audience to try it out and provide the feedback that will continue to shape

ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview1: Endpoint Routing

August 27th, 2018

Endpoint Routing in 2.2 What is it? We're making a big investment in routing starting in 2.2 to make it interoperate more seamlessly with middleware. For 2.2 this will start with us making a few changes to the routing model, and adding some minor features. In 3.0 the plan is to introduce a model where routing and middleware operate together

ASP.NET Core 2.1-preview1: Introducing HTTPClient factory

February 28th, 2018

HttpClient factory is an opinionated factory for creating HttpClient instances to be used in your applications. It is designed to: 1. Provide a central location for naming and configuring logical HttpClients. For example, you may configure a client that is pre-configured to access the github API. 2. Codify the concept of outgoing middleware

ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1: Introducing compatibility version in MVC

February 27th, 2018

This post was written by Ryan Nowak In 2.1 we're adding a feature to address a long-standing problem for maintaining MVC - how do we make improvements to framework code without making it too hard for developers to upgrade to the latest version? This is not an easy concern to solve - and with 7 major releases of MVC (dating back to 2009) there

ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1: Using ASP.NET Core Previews on Azure App Service

February 27th, 2018

There are 3 options to get ASP.NET Core 2.1 Preview applications running on Azure App Service: 1. Installing the Preview1 site extension 2. Deploying your app self-contained 3. Using Web Apps for Containers Installing the site extension Starting with 2.1-preview1 we are producing an Azure App Service site extension that contains everythi

64 bit ASP.NET Core on Azure App Service

January 9th, 2018

When creating an Azure App Service .NET Core is already pre-installed. However, only the 32 bit .NET runtime is installed. In this post we will look at a few ways that you can get a 64 bit runtime on Azure App Service During the 2.1 timeframe we are hoping to have both 32 and 64 bit runtimes installed as well as enabling the portal experien

Announcing SignalR for ASP.NET Core Alpha 2

October 9th, 2017

A few weeks ago we released the alpha1 version of SignalR for ASP.NET Core 2.0. Today we are pleased to announce a release of the alpha2 version of SignalR for ASP.NET Core 2.0. This release contains a number of changes (including API changes) and improvements. Notable Changes Release notes can be found on github. API Changes Type

Announcing SignalR (alpha) for ASP.NET Core 2.0

September 14th, 2017

NOTE: This is a post about the Alpha version of SignalR which has since been replaced with a new preview: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2018/02/27/asp-net-core-2-1-0-preview1-getting-started-with-signalr/ Today we are glad to announce an alpha release of SignalR for ASP.NET Core 2.0. This is the first official preview release of a n

ASP.NET Core 2.0 Features

August 25th, 2017

Last week we announced the release of ASP.NET Core 2.0 and described some top new features, including Razor Pages, new and updated templates, and Application Insights integration. In this blog post we are going to dig into more details of features in 2.0. This list is not exhaustive or in any particular order, but highlights a number of intere

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