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gRPC-Web for .NET now available

James Newton-KingJune 16, 2020Jun 16, 202006/16/20

gRPC-Web for .NET is now officially released. Use gRPC in the browser with gRPC-Web and .NET today.

A new experiment: Call .NET gRPC services from the browser with gRPC-Web

James Newton-KingJanuary 27, 2020Jan 27, 202001/27/20

Build web apps using gRPC-Web and .NET Core! Check out this new experiment for gRPC-Web on .NET Core.

gRPC vs HTTP APIs

James Newton-KingNovember 18, 2019Nov 18, 201911/18/19

ASP.NET Core 3.0 adds support for gRPC, an opinionated contract-first remote procedure call framework. This blog post compares gRPC to JSON HTTP APIs, discusses gRPC's strengths and weaknesses, and when you could use gRPC to build your apps.

Upcoming SameSite Cookie Changes in ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core

Barry DorransOctober 18, 2019Oct 18, 201910/18/19

SameSite is a 2016 extension to HTTP cookies intended to mitigate cross site request forgery (CSRF). The original design was an opt-in feature which could be used by adding a new SameSite property to cookies. It had two values, Lax and Strict. Setting the value to Lax indicated the cookie should be sent on navigation within the same site, or ...

Redesigning Configuration Refresh for Azure App Configuration

Abhilash AroraAugust 27, 2019Aug 27, 201908/27/19

Overview Since its inception, the .NET Core configuration provider for Azure App Configuration has provided the capability to monitor changes and sync them to the configuration within a running application. We recently redesigned this functionality to allow for on-demand refresh of the configuration. The new design paves the way for smarter ...

Azure SignalR Service now supports ASP.NET!

Zhidi ShangApril 26, 2019Apr 26, 201904/26/19

Azure SignalR Service is a fully managed real-time messaging service, built on ASP.NET Core SignalR. ASP.NET Core SignalR has many features incompatible with ASP.NET SignalR, so existing ASP.NET SignalR Application doesn't work with SignalR Service. We added the ASP.NET support to SignalR Service SDK to enable this scenario. This blog also lists features that are no longer supported and provides references on documents and code samples.

Microsoft’s Developer Blogs are Getting an Update

Jayme SingletonFebruary 13, 2019Feb 13, 201902/13/19

In the coming days, we’ll be moving our developer blogs to a new platform with a modern, clean design and powerful features that will make it easy for you to discover and share great content. This week, you’ll see the Visual Studio, IoTDev, and Premier Developer blogs move to a new URL – while additional developer blogs will ...

ASP.NET SignalR 2.4.0

Brady GasterNovember 14, 2018Nov 14, 201811/14/18

We've just shipped the final 2.4.0 version of ASP.NET SignalR, the version of SignalR for System.Web and/or OWIN-based applications. As we mentioned in a previous post on the future of ASP.NET SignalR, 2.4.0 is a minor release which contains some small bug fixes and updates. The majority of the features and fixes we implemented for ASP.NET ...

When should you right click publish

Angelos PetropoulosNovember 9, 2018Nov 9, 201811/9/18

Some people say ‘friends don’t let friends right click publish’ but is that true? If they mean that there are great benefits to setting up a CI/CD workflow, that’s true and we will talk more about these benefits in just a minute. First, let’s remind ourselves that the goal isn’t always coming up with the best long-term solution...

Announcing CosmosDB Table Async OutputCache Provider Release and ASP.NET Providers Connected Service Extension Update

Web Development Tools MicrosoftOctober 25, 2018Oct 25, 201810/25/18

Through the years, ASP.NET team have been releasing new ASP.NET SessionState and OutputCache providers to help developers make their web applications ready for the cloud environment. Today we are announcing a new OutputCache provider, Microsoft.AspNet.OutputCache.CosmosDBTableAsyncOutputCacheProvider, to enable your applications store the ...

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