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ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview2 now available

September 12, 2018 Sep 12, 2018 09/12/18
Sourabh Shirhatti [MSFT]
Today we’re very happy to announce that the second 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 over the past months, 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...

Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.0

August 14, 2017 Aug 14, 2017 08/14/17
Jeffrey Fritz
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, you can read the release notes and you can check the list of changed ...

Introducing ASP.NET Core 2.0 Preview 2

June 28, 2017 Jun 28, 2017 06/28/17
Jeffrey Fritz
At Build 2017, we released an initial preview version of ASP.NET Core 2.0.  Over the last two months we have incorporated your feedback and added a number of new features.  We now have a Preview 2 version of the ASP.NET Core 2.0 framework and Visual Studio tools for you to try.  In this post, we will review some of the new features in this ...

Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.0.0-Preview1 and Updates for .NET Web Developers

May 10, 2017 May 10, 2017 05/10/17
Jeffrey Fritz
The ASP.NET team is pleased to share the first preview version of the ASP.NET Core 2.0 framework.  In this post, we’ll look at the new features and changes to the web framework that were announced at the Build 2017 keynote and sessions.  We will also look at some other updates that were published for ASP.NET 4.7 and WCF. ASP.NET Core 2.0....

Announcing New ASP.NET Core and Web Development Features in Visual Studio 2017

March 7, 2017 Mar 7, 2017 03/7/17
Jeffrey Fritz
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...

Announcing Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks V1 RTM

December 14, 2016 Dec 14, 2016 12/14/16
Henrik F Nielsen
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, a code change has been committed to GitHub, a payment...

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

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Jeffrey Fritz
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 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Jeffrey Fritz
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...

Announcing ASP.NET Core 1.1 Preview 1

October 25, 2016 Oct 25, 2016 10/25/16
Jeffrey Fritz
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. ...