Jeffrey Fritz

Principal Program Manager, .NET Community Team

Jeff Fritz is a principal program manager in Microsoft’s Developer Division working on the .NET Community Team. Four days a week, you can catch Jeff hosting a live video stream called 'Fritz and Friends' at live.jeffreyfritz.com.

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MVP Hackathon 2016: Cool Projects from Microsoft MVPs

November 22nd, 2016
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, and some that are still in ...

Put a .NET Core App in a Container with the new Docker Tools for Visual Studio

November 16th, 2016
By now hopefully you’ve heard the good news that we’ve added first class support for building and running .NET applications inside of Docker containers in Visual Studio 2017 RC.  Visual Studio 2017 and Docker support building and running .NET applications using Windows containers (on Windows 10/Server 2016 only), and .NET Core ...

Announcing the Fastest ASP.NET Yet, ASP.NET Core 1.1 RTM

November 16th, 2016
We are happy to announce that ASP.NET Core 1.1 is now available as a stable release on nuget.org! This release includes a bunch of great new features along with many bug fixes and general enhancements. We invite you to try out the new features and to provide feedback. To update an existing project to ASP.NET Core 1.1 you will need to do the...

Bearer Token Authentication in ASP.NET Core

October 27th, 2016
This is a guest post from Mike Rousos Introduction ASP.NET Core Identity automatically supports cookie authentication. It is also straightforward to support authentication by external providers using the Google, Facebook, or Twitter ASP.NET Core authentication packages. One authentication scenario that requires a little bit more work, though...

Announcing ASP.NET Core 1.1 Preview 1

October 25th, 2016
Today we are happy to announce the release of ASP.NET Core 1.1 Preview 1. This release includes a bunch of great new features along with many bug fixes and general enhancements. We invite you to try out the new features and to provide feedback. To update an existing project to ASP.NET Core 1.1 Preview 1 you will need to do the following: 1. ...

Modern ASP.NET Web Forms Development – Dependency Injection

October 19th, 2016
(image) We’ve all read various ‘best practices’ posts about this framework and that framework from expert developers in the community.  They’ll cover topics regarding how to make your application more maintainable and how to drive down the risk of maintenance in your applications.  A common design recommendation is to structure your ...

Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – October 18, 2016

October 19th, 2016
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 minutes...

Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – October 11, 2016

October 17th, 2016
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 minutes...

Secure ASP.NET ViewState

September 23rd, 2016
(image) During an appearance on the .NET Rocks podcast last week, a question was raised about securely sending information through ASP.NET ViewState.  I responded to the question by indicating that the typical security concern for web content is not to trust any content submitted from the web, including ViewState.  After that podcast was ...

Introducing IdentityServer4 for authentication and access control in ASP.NET Core

September 19th, 2016
This is a guest post by Brock Allen and Dominick Baier. They are security consultants, speakers, and the authors of many popular open source security projects, including IdentityServer. Modern applications need modern identity. The protocols used for implementing features like authentication, single sign-on, API access control and federation ...