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ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Release Candidate 1

Daniel RothSeptember 16, 2019Sep 16, 201909/16/19

.NET Core 3.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available! This release contains only a handful of bug fixes and closely represents what we expect to release for .NET Core 3.0.

ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 9

Daniel RothSeptember 4, 2019Sep 4, 201909/4/19

.NET Core 3.0 Preview 9 is now available and it includes a bunch of new updates to ASP.NET Core and Blazor. Check out the great new features and improvements in this release!

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.

ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8

Sourabh Shirhatti [MSFT]August 13, 2019Aug 13, 201908/13/19

.NET Core 3.0 Preview 8 is now available and it includes a bunch of new updates to ASP.NET Core and Blazor. Check out the great new features and improvements in this release!

HttpRepl: A command-line tool for interacting with RESTful HTTP services

Angelos PetropoulosJuly 31, 2019Jul 31, 201907/31/19

The ASP.NET team has built a command-line tool called HttpRepl. It lets you browse and invoke HTTP services in a similar way to working with files and folders. You give it a starting point (a base URL) and then you can execute commands like “dir” and “cd” to navigate your way around the API:
C:\>

ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 7

Daniel RothJuly 23, 2019Jul 23, 201907/23/19

.NET Core 3.0 Preview 7 is now available and it includes a bunch of new updates to ASP.NET Core and Blazor. Check out the great new features and improvements in this release!

Configuring a Server-side Blazor app with Azure App Configuration

Brady GasterJuly 1, 2019Jul 1, 201907/1/19

In this post, we'll take a look at how we can extract configuration values out of JSON files and into an Azure App Configuration instance, where they can be used by other teammates or apps.

ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 6

Daniel RothJune 12, 2019Jun 12, 201906/12/19

.NET Core 3.0 Preview 6 is now available and includes a bunch of new updates to ASP.NET Core and Blazor. Find out what's new in this latest preview release.

What’s new in Azure SignalR 1.1.0 Preview 1

Ken ChenJune 3, 2019Jun 3, 201906/3/19

We just shipped 1.1.0 Preview 1 of Azure SignalR Service SDK to support some new features in ASP.NET Core 3.0, including endpoint routing and server-side Blazor. Let’s take a look how you can use them in your Azure SignalR application.
Here is the list of what’s new in this release:

Endpoint routing support for ASP.NET Core 3
Use SignalR service in server-side Blazor apps
Server stickiness

Endpoint routing support for ASP.NET Core 3
For those who are using Azure SignalR,

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5

Brady GasterMay 6, 2019May 6, 201905/6/19

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5
.NET Core 3.0 Preview 5 is now available. This iteration was brief for the team and primarily includes bug fixes and improvements to the more significant updates in Preview 4. This post summarizes the important points in this release.

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.

Azure SignalR Service now supports Event Grid!

Ken ChenAugust 8, 2019Aug 8, 201908/8/19

We just released a new feature which enables Azure SignalR Service to publish connection events to Azure Event Grid. Check out this blog post to learn how it works and how to use it.

Configuring a Server-side Blazor app with Azure App Configuration

Brady GasterJuly 1, 2019Jul 1, 201907/1/19

In this post, we'll take a look at how we can extract configuration values out of JSON files and into an Azure App Configuration instance, where they can be used by other teammates or apps.

What’s new in Azure SignalR 1.1.0 Preview 1

Ken ChenJune 3, 2019Jun 3, 201906/3/19

We just shipped 1.1.0 Preview 1 of Azure SignalR Service SDK to support some new features in ASP.NET Core 3.0, including endpoint routing and server-side Blazor. Let’s take a look how you can use them in your Azure SignalR application.
Here is the list of what’s new in this release:

Endpoint routing support for ASP.NET Core 3
Use SignalR service in server-side Blazor apps
Server stickiness

Endpoint routing support for ASP.NET Core 3
For those who are using Azure SignalR,

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.

.NET Core Workers in Azure Container Instances

Brady GasterApril 15, 2019Apr 15, 201904/15/19

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 you'll learn how to use a Worker with Azure Container Registry anAzure Container Instances to get your Worker running as a microservice in the cloud.

Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server

Angelos PetropoulosFebruary 22, 2019Feb 22, 201902/22/19

In my previous blog post I talked about how to migrate data from existing on-prem SQL Server instances to Azure SQL Database. If you haven’t heard SQL Server 2008 end of support is coming this summer, so it’s a good time to evaluate moving to an Azure SQL Database.

Migrating your existing on-prem SQL Server database to Azure SQL DB

Angelos PetropoulosFebruary 15, 2019Feb 15, 201902/15/19

If you are in the process of moving an existing .NET application to Azure, it’s likely you’ll have to migrate an existing, on-prem SQL database as well. There are a few different ways you can go about this, so let’s go through them.

Announcing an easier way to use latest certificates from Key Vault

Web Development Tools MicrosoftFebruary 7, 2019Feb 7, 201902/7/19

Posting on behalf of the Key Vault Team.
When we launched Azure Key Vault a few years ago, it solved a major problem users had which was that storing sensitive and/or secret information in code or config files in plain text causes multiple problems including security exposure.

Make the most of your monthly Azure Credits

Angelos PetropoulosFebruary 1, 2019Feb 1, 201902/1/19

If you weren’t aware, Visual Studio subscribers have free monthly Azure credits, that are ideal for experimenting with and learning about Azure services. When you activate this benefit, it creates a separate Azure subscription with a monthly credit balance that renews each month while you remain an active Visual Studio subscriber.

ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Release Candidate 1

Daniel RothSeptember 16, 2019Sep 16, 201909/16/19

.NET Core 3.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available! This release contains only a handful of bug fixes and closely represents what we expect to release for .NET Core 3.0.

ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 9

Daniel RothSeptember 4, 2019Sep 4, 201909/4/19

.NET Core 3.0 Preview 9 is now available and it includes a bunch of new updates to ASP.NET Core and Blazor. Check out the great new features and improvements in this release!

ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8

Sourabh Shirhatti [MSFT]August 13, 2019Aug 13, 201908/13/19

.NET Core 3.0 Preview 8 is now available and it includes a bunch of new updates to ASP.NET Core and Blazor. Check out the great new features and improvements in this release!

ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 7

Daniel RothJuly 23, 2019Jul 23, 201907/23/19

.NET Core 3.0 Preview 7 is now available and it includes a bunch of new updates to ASP.NET Core and Blazor. Check out the great new features and improvements in this release!

Configuring a Server-side Blazor app with Azure App Configuration

Brady GasterJuly 1, 2019Jul 1, 201907/1/19

In this post, we'll take a look at how we can extract configuration values out of JSON files and into an Azure App Configuration instance, where they can be used by other teammates or apps.

ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 6

Daniel RothJune 12, 2019Jun 12, 201906/12/19

.NET Core 3.0 Preview 6 is now available and includes a bunch of new updates to ASP.NET Core and Blazor. Find out what's new in this latest preview release.

What’s new in Azure SignalR 1.1.0 Preview 1

Ken ChenJune 3, 2019Jun 3, 201906/3/19

We just shipped 1.1.0 Preview 1 of Azure SignalR Service SDK to support some new features in ASP.NET Core 3.0, including endpoint routing and server-side Blazor. Let’s take a look how you can use them in your Azure SignalR application.
Here is the list of what’s new in this release:

Endpoint routing support for ASP.NET Core 3
Use SignalR service in server-side Blazor apps
Server stickiness

Endpoint routing support for ASP.NET Core 3
For those who are using Azure SignalR,

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5

Brady GasterMay 6, 2019May 6, 201905/6/19

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5
.NET Core 3.0 Preview 5 is now available. This iteration was brief for the team and primarily includes bug fixes and improvements to the more significant updates in Preview 4. This post summarizes the important points in this release.

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 4

Daniel RothApril 18, 2019Apr 18, 201904/18/19

.NET Core 3.0 Preview 4 is now available and it includes a bunch of new updates to ASP.NET Core. Find out what's new in this latest preview release.

Blazor now in official preview!

Daniel RothApril 18, 2019Apr 18, 201904/18/19

With this newest Blazor release we’re pleased to announce that Blazor is now in official preview! Blazor is no longer experimental and we are committing to ship it as a supported web UI framework including support for running client-side in the browser on WebAssembly.

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.

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.

Use Hybrid Connections to Incrementally Migrate Applications to the Cloud

Web Development Tools MicrosoftOctober 4, 2018Oct 4, 201810/4/18

As the software industry shifts to running software in the cloud, organizations are looking to migrate existing applications from on-premises to the cloud. Last week at Microsoft’s Ignite conference, Paul Yuknewicz and I delivered a talk focused on how to get started migrating applications to Azure (watch the talk free) where we walked through the business case for migrating to the cloud,

Diagnosing Errors on your Cloud Apps

Justin Clareburt (MSFT)February 7, 2018Feb 7, 201802/7/18

One of the most frustrating experiences is when you have your app working on your local machine, but when you publish it it’s inexplicably failing. Fortunately, Visual Studio provides handy features for working with apps running in Azure. In this blog I’ll show you how to leverage the capabilities of Cloud Explorer to diagnose issues in Azure.

Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup –March 21, 2017

Maria NaggagaMarch 22, 2017Mar 22, 201703/22/17

 
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.

Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup –March 9, 2017

Maria NaggagaMarch 13, 2017Mar 13, 201703/13/17

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.

Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup –February 21, 2017

Maria NaggagaFebruary 26, 2017Feb 26, 201702/26/17

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.

Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup –February 14, 2017

Maria NaggagaFebruary 15, 2017Feb 15, 201702/15/17

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.

Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup –January 24, 2017

Maria NaggagaFebruary 2, 2017Feb 2, 201702/2/17

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.

Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup –January 10, 2017

Maria NaggagaJanuary 23, 2017Jan 23, 201701/23/17

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.

Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup –January 3, 2017

Maria NaggagaJanuary 4, 2017Jan 4, 201701/4/17

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.

Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup –December 13, 2016

Maria NaggagaDecember 28, 2016Dec 28, 201612/28/16

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.

Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – November 29, 2016

Maria NaggagaDecember 6, 2016Dec 6, 201612/6/16

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.

Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – November 22, 2016

Maria NaggagaNovember 29, 2016Nov 29, 201611/29/16

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.

Razor Improvements – Feedback Wanted

Justin Clareburt (MSFT)July 11, 2018Jul 11, 201807/11/18

Recent releases of Visual Studio 2017 focus greatly on improving the experience of working with Razor. The improvements address the most pressing customer-facing issues like formatting changes and providing general performance and reliability for IntelliSense. Now that the fixes and enhancements are publicly available, we would like to learn more about your experience with the Razor editor.

ASP.NET Core 2.1.0 now available

Daniel RothMay 30, 2018May 30, 201805/30/18

Today we're thrilled to announce the release of ASP.NET Core 2.1.0! This is the latest release of our open-source and cross-platform web framework for .NET and it's now ready for production use. Get started with ASP.NET Core 2.1 today!
New features in this release include:

SignalR –

ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Release Candidate 1

Daniel RothSeptember 16, 2019Sep 16, 201909/16/19

.NET Core 3.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available! This release contains only a handful of bug fixes and closely represents what we expect to release for .NET Core 3.0.

ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 9

Daniel RothSeptember 4, 2019Sep 4, 201909/4/19

.NET Core 3.0 Preview 9 is now available and it includes a bunch of new updates to ASP.NET Core and Blazor. Check out the great new features and improvements in this release!

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.

ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8

Sourabh Shirhatti [MSFT]August 13, 2019Aug 13, 201908/13/19

.NET Core 3.0 Preview 8 is now available and it includes a bunch of new updates to ASP.NET Core and Blazor. Check out the great new features and improvements in this release!

HttpRepl: A command-line tool for interacting with RESTful HTTP services

Angelos PetropoulosJuly 31, 2019Jul 31, 201907/31/19

The ASP.NET team has built a command-line tool called HttpRepl. It lets you browse and invoke HTTP services in a similar way to working with files and folders. You give it a starting point (a base URL) and then you can execute commands like “dir” and “cd” to navigate your way around the API:
C:\>

ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 7

Daniel RothJuly 23, 2019Jul 23, 201907/23/19

.NET Core 3.0 Preview 7 is now available and it includes a bunch of new updates to ASP.NET Core and Blazor. Check out the great new features and improvements in this release!

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 4

Daniel RothApril 18, 2019Apr 18, 201904/18/19

.NET Core 3.0 Preview 4 is now available and it includes a bunch of new updates to ASP.NET Core. Find out what's new in this latest preview release.

Updated Razor support in Visual Studio Code, now with Blazor support

Daniel RothApril 18, 2019Apr 18, 201904/18/19

Today we are pleased to announce improved Razor tooling support in Visual Studio Code with the latest C# extension. This latest release includes improved Razor diagnostics and support for tag helpers and Blazor apps.

.NET Core Workers in Azure Container Instances

Brady GasterApril 15, 2019Apr 15, 201904/15/19

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 you'll learn how to use a Worker with Azure Container Registry anAzure Container Instances to get your Worker running as a microservice in the cloud.

.NET Core Workers as Windows Services

Glenn Condron [MSFT]March 29, 2019Mar 29, 201903/29/19

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.

Azure SignalR Service now supports Event Grid!

Ken ChenAugust 8, 2019Aug 8, 201908/8/19

We just released a new feature which enables Azure SignalR Service to publish connection events to Azure Event Grid. Check out this blog post to learn how it works and how to use it.

ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 6

Daniel RothJune 12, 2019Jun 12, 201906/12/19

.NET Core 3.0 Preview 6 is now available and includes a bunch of new updates to ASP.NET Core and Blazor. Find out what's new in this latest preview release.

What’s new in Azure SignalR 1.1.0 Preview 1

Ken ChenJune 3, 2019Jun 3, 201906/3/19

We just shipped 1.1.0 Preview 1 of Azure SignalR Service SDK to support some new features in ASP.NET Core 3.0, including endpoint routing and server-side Blazor. Let’s take a look how you can use them in your Azure SignalR application.
Here is the list of what’s new in this release:

Endpoint routing support for ASP.NET Core 3
Use SignalR service in server-side Blazor apps
Server stickiness

Endpoint routing support for ASP.NET Core 3
For those who are using Azure SignalR,

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.

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 4

Daniel RothApril 18, 2019Apr 18, 201904/18/19

.NET Core 3.0 Preview 4 is now available and it includes a bunch of new updates to ASP.NET Core. Find out what's new in this latest preview release.

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 3

Daniel RothMarch 6, 2019Mar 6, 201903/6/19

Check out the new ASP.NET Core features now available with .NET Core 3.0 Preview 3. Improvements to Razor Components, new templates for gRPC and Worker Services, SPA authentication, SignalR improvements and much more!

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.

ASP.NET SignalR 2.4.0 Preview 2

Andrew Stanton-NurseOctober 22, 2018Oct 22, 201810/22/18

We’ve just released the second preview of the upcoming 2.4.0 release of ASP.NET SignalR. As we mentioned in our previous blog post on the future of ASP.NET SignalR we are releasing a minor update to ASP.NET SignalR (the version of SignalR for System.Web and/or OWIN-based applications) that includes,

Announcing ASP.NET SignalR 2.4.0 Preview 1

Andrew Stanton-NurseOctober 4, 2018Oct 4, 201810/4/18

We recently released the first preview of the upcoming 2.4.0 release of ASP.NET SignalR. As we mentioned in our previous blog post on the future of ASP.NET SignalR we are releasing a new minor update to ASP.NET SignalR (the version of SignalR for System.Web and/or OWIN-based applications) that includes,

The future of ASP.NET SignalR

Andrew Stanton-NurseSeptember 17, 2018Sep 17, 201809/17/18

In ASP.NET Core 2.1, we brought SignalR into the ASP.NET Core family. Many of our users have asked what this means for the previous version of SignalR: ASP.NET SignalR.
As a reminder, ASP.NET SignalR is represented by the NuGet package Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR and runs on applications using .NET Framework and System.Web.

Forwarded Headers Middleware Updates in .NET Core 3.0 preview 6

Brady GasterJune 20, 2019Jun 20, 201906/20/19

With the updates in .NET Core 3 preview 6, the host logic has been pre-wired to enable the Forwarded Headers Middleware by default as long as the `ASPNETCORE_FORWARDEDHEADERS_ENABLED` environment variable has been set to `true`. This post goes into some detail on how this can fix potential HTTPS issues when behind a reverse proxy.

Web and Azure Tool Updates in Visual Studio 2019

Angelos PetropoulosApril 5, 2019Apr 5, 201904/5/19

Hopefully by now you’ve seen that [Visual Studio 2019 is now generally available][1]. As you would expect, we’ve added improvements for web and Azure development. As a starting point, Visual Studio 2019 comes with [a new experience for getting started with your code][2] and we updated the experience for creating ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core projects to match:

Re-reading ASP.Net Core request bodies with EnableBuffering()

Jeremy MengMarch 27, 2019Mar 27, 201903/27/19

This post describes the EnableBuffering() extension method which enable re-reading of ASP.NET Core request body.

LibMan CLI Released

Justin Clareburt (MSFT)August 22, 2018Aug 22, 201808/22/18

The Command Line Interface (CLI) is now available for Microsoft Library Manager (LibMan) and can be downloaded via NuGet. Look for Microsoft.Web.LibraryManager.Cli
The LibMan CLI is cross-platform, so you’ll be able to use it anywhere that .NET Core is supported (Windows,

A Penny Saved is a Ton of Serverless Compute Earned

Web Development Tools MicrosoftMay 21, 2018May 21, 201805/21/18

Scott Guthrie recently shared one of my favorite anecdotes on his Azure Red Shirt Tour. A Microsoft customer regularly invokes 1 billion (yes, that’s with a “B”) Azure Functions per day. The customer reached out to support after the first month thinking there was a bug in the billing system,

What Happened to Bower?

Justin Clareburt (MSFT)April 18, 2018Apr 18, 201804/18/18

Bower is a popular package management system for managing static content used by client-side web applications. Visual Studio provides rich support for Bower, including templates and package management tools.
In October 2017, there were announcements on Twitter hinting that the Bower platform was being deprecated.

Publish Improvements in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7

Andrew B Hall - MSFTApril 18, 2018Apr 18, 201804/18/18

Today we released Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7. Our 15.7 update brings some exciting updates for publishing applications from Visual Studio that we’re excited to tell you about, including:

Ability to configure publish settings before you publish or create a publish profile
Publish to a fully managed App Service Linux environment
Create Azure Storage Accounts and automatically store the connection string for App Service
Automatic enablement of Managed Service Identity in App Service

Configure settings before publishing
When publishing your ASP.NET Core applications to either a folder or Azure App Service you can configure the following settings prior to creating your publish profile:

Build configuration (Release | Debug)
Target Framework
Framework Dependent or Self-contained app
Target Runtime
Remove additional files at destination

To configure this prior to creating your profile,

File nesting in Solution Explorer

Angelos PetropoulosFebruary 7, 2018Feb 7, 201802/7/18

We are excited to share with you a new capability in Visual Studio that was a clear ask from you, the community. Visual Studio has been nesting related files in Solution Explorer for a long time now, but not everybody agrees with the rules it uses.

Learn how to do Image Recognition with Cognitive Services and ASP.NET

Angelos PetropoulosFebruary 5, 2018Feb 5, 201802/5/18

With all the talk about artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) doing crazy things, it’s easy to be left wondering, “what are practical ways I can use this today?” It turns out there are some extremely easy ways to try this today.

Azure Storage for Serverless .NET Apps in Minutes

Web Development Tools MicrosoftJanuary 25, 2018Jan 25, 201801/25/18

Azure Storage is a quick and effortless way to store data for applications that has high availability, is secure, scales and is redundant. This blog post walks through a simple application that creates a short code for a long URL to easily reference it.

Changes to the web and JSON editor APIs in Visual Studio 2019

Web Development Tools MicrosoftFebruary 6, 2019Feb 6, 201902/6/19

In Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2, The Web Tools team made some changes to improve extensibility features for extension developers. To standardize interfaces, the CSS, HTML, JSON and CSHTML editors renamed their assemblies - table details inside!

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.

ASP.NET Core in Visual Studio for Mac – Help us build the best experience

Sayed-Ibrahim-HashimiSeptember 17, 2018Sep 17, 201809/17/18

We are working to improve the experience for ASP.NET Core developers in Visual Studio for Mac. If you are working on ASP.NET Core apps in Visual Studio for Mac, we would love to hear you feedback. Your feedback is important so that we can help shape the future of ASP.NET Core in Visual Studio for Mac.

Library Manager Released in 15.8

Justin Clareburt (MSFT)August 31, 2018Aug 31, 201808/31/18

Microsoft Library Manager (LibMan) is now available in the general release of Visual Studio 2017 as of v15.8. LibMan first previewed earlier this year, and now, after a much-anticipated wait, LibMan is available in the stable release of Visual Studio 2017 bundled as a default component in the ASP.NET and web development workload.

Improvements in Visual Studio 2017 15.8 for web and Azure developers

Jeffrey FritzAugust 15, 2018Aug 15, 201808/15/18

With the release of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 brings improvements for web developers such as custom docker image tags during publish, zip push deployment for Azure functions, managing Azure functions application settings, and enabling Application Insights as part of publishing to Azure App Service. Also learn about managing user secrets in ASP.NET framework projects, optimizing build performance for solutions containing ASP.NET frame as well as author and source information for ASP.NET Core templates.

Razor Improvements – Feedback Wanted

Justin Clareburt (MSFT)July 11, 2018Jul 11, 201807/11/18

Recent releases of Visual Studio 2017 focus greatly on improving the experience of working with Razor. The improvements address the most pressing customer-facing issues like formatting changes and providing general performance and reliability for IntelliSense. Now that the fixes and enhancements are publicly available, we would like to learn more about your experience with the Razor editor.

Workaround for Bower Version Deprecation

Justin Clareburt (MSFT)July 5, 2018Jul 5, 201807/5/18

As of June 25, the version of Bower shipped with Visual Studio was deprecated, resulting in Bower operations failing when run in Visual Studio. If you use Bower, you will see an error something like:
EINVRES Request to https://bower.herokuapp.com/packages/bootstrap failed with 502
This will be fixed in Visual Studio 15.8.

Announcing ASP.NET Providers Connected Service Visual Studio Extension

Matt FJHMay 22, 2018May 22, 201805/22/18

Provider pattern was introduced in ASP.NET 2.0 and it gives the developers the flexibility of where to store the state of ASP.NET features (e.g. Session State, Membership, Output Cache etc.). In ASP.NET 4.6.2, we added async support for Session State Provider and Output Cache Provider. 

Improvements to Azure Functions in Visual Studio

Justin Clareburt (MSFT)November 15, 2017Nov 15, 201711/15/17

We’re excited to announce several improvements to the Azure Functions experience in Visual Studio as part of the latest update to the Azure Functions tools on top of Visual Studio 2017 v15.5.

New Function project dialog, including storage account support
.NET Core support
Manage Azure app settings
Detect mismatching functions runtime versions

New Function project dialog
To make it easier to get up and running with Azure Functions,

Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.0

Jeffrey FritzAugust 14, 2017Aug 14, 201708/14/17

The ASP.NET team is proud to announce general availability of ASP.NET Core 2.0.  This release features compatibility with .NET Core 2.0, tooling support in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3, and the new Razor Pages user-interface design paradigm.  For a full list of updates,

Use Hybrid Connections to Incrementally Migrate Applications to the Cloud

Web Development Tools MicrosoftOctober 4, 2018Oct 4, 201810/4/18

As the software industry shifts to running software in the cloud, organizations are looking to migrate existing applications from on-premises to the cloud. Last week at Microsoft’s Ignite conference, Paul Yuknewicz and I delivered a talk focused on how to get started migrating applications to Azure (watch the talk free) where we walked through the business case for migrating to the cloud,

WCF Web Service Reference Provider – Metadata Exchange Endpoint Authentication

Miguell - MSFTJune 28, 2017Jun 28, 201706/28/17

With the recent update to the WCF Service Reference tool in the VS Marketplace, support has been added for downloading metadata for a web service where the metadata exchange (MEX) endpoint has been secured with IIS authentication.
The purpose of MEX endpoints is to allow clients to discover the service capabilities,

Let’s Try WCF Self-Hosted Services in a Container

Jeffrey FritzFebruary 20, 2017Feb 20, 201702/20/17

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. 

Announcing Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks V1 RTM

Henrik F NielsenDecember 14, 2016Dec 14, 201612/14/16

We are very happy to announce ASP.NET WebHooks V1 RTM making it easy to both send and receive WebHooks with ASP.NET.
WebHooks provide a simple pub/sub model for wiring together Web APIs and services with your code. A WebHook can be used to get notified when a file has changed in Dropbox,

Announcing ASP.NET WebHooks Release Candidate 1

Henrik F NielsenMarch 5, 2016Mar 5, 201603/5/16

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!
WebHooks provide a simple mechanism for sending event notifications across web applications and external services.

ASP.NET WebHooks and Slack Slash Commands

Henrik F NielsenFebruary 14, 2016Feb 14, 201602/14/16

We just added a couple of new features in ASP.NET WebHooks that makes it easier to build some nice integrations with Slack Slash Commands. These commands make it possible to trigger any kind of processing from a Slack channel by generating an HTTP request containing details about the command.

WPF/E ASP.NET Server Control

Web Development Tools MicrosoftDecember 11, 2006Dec 11, 200612/11/06

The other day, I have posted on an entry on my blog showing how to embed videos on your websites using simple IFrame technique. The next thing I wanted to do is to build an ASP.NET Server Control to show how easy it is to integrate rich content into ASPX pages –