This guest post was written by Mike Rousos
ASP.NET Core supports diagnostic logging through the Microsoft.Extensions.Logging package. This logging solution (which is used throughout ASP.NET Core, including internally by the Kestrel host) is highly extensible. There’s already documentation available to help developers get started with ASP.NET Core logging,
This post was written and submitted by Michael Rousos
In several previous posts, I discussed a customer scenario I ran into recently that required issuing bearer tokens from an ASP.NET Core authentication server and then validating those tokens in a separate ASP.NET Core web service which may not have access to the authentication server.
Are you using the legacy ASP.NET membership providers with your application? When you look in web.config, is there a membership configuration within the system.web element? The membership provider has been available since ASP.NET 2, and has been superseded by the Identity provider for a more secure authentication and authorization facility in your application.
You’ve downloaded and installed Visual Studio 2017, and it’s a great improvement over previous versions. Now what? How can you make your web development experience better? In this article, we will recommend five Visual Studio extensions that will make your day-to-day tasks easier and even more enjoyable.
We are pleased to announce updates to our ASP.NET tools, ASP.NET Core tools, Container tools, and frameworks that are shipping as part of the Visual Studio 2017 release today. We have made significant updates to the web development tools to make them easier for you to use and help make you more productive in your daily web development tasks.
Microservices are a hot architecture concept right now, and we hear a lot of interest in the architecture concepts. Many of the ideas and capabilities behind microservices are already possible with the WCF frameworks for client and server creation. There is one tenet about microservices that you can not do with WCF: run inside of a container.
This is a guest post by Steve Sanderson
These days, many developers are building Single-Page Applications (SPAs) using frameworks such as Angular or React. These are powerful frameworks that produce a great end-user experience, but we often hear that building these applications is complicated.
This post was written by Wade Pickett
We are happy to announce ASP.NET documentation and guidance has been migrated to docs.microsoft.com!
Better Together and Great Features
This brings the ASP.NET documentation together with ASP.NET Core, C#, Entity Framework Core, Azure, Visual Studio,
This is a guest post by Mike Rousos
In my post on bearer token authentication in ASP.NET Core, I mentioned that there are a couple good third-party libraries for issuing JWT bearer tokens in .NET Core. In that post, I used OpenIddict to demonstrate how end-to-end token issuance can work in an ASP.NET Core application.
Last week was the annual MVP Summit on Microsoft’s Redmond campus. We laughed, we cried, we shared stories around the campfire, and we even made s’mores. Ok, I’m stretching it a bit about the last part, but we had a good time introducing the MVPs to some of the cool technologies you saw at Connect() yesterday,
