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Microsoft Teams Assignments Service’s Journey to .NET 6

September 14, 2022 Sep 14, 2022 09/14/22

Kevin Halverson

The Assignments and Grades features in Teams have seen exponential growth in usage as schools around the world have undergone a digital transformation. To better meet the needs of teachers and students, we have recently migrated our backend service to .NET 6.

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 7 Preview 3

April 12, 2022 Apr 12, 2022 04/12/22

Daniel Roth

.NET 7 Preview 3 is here and adds some great new features to ASP.NET Core including support for route handler filters in minimal APIs, improved unit testability for minimal route handlers, performance enhancements, and more.

Sharing code between ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core

March 2, 2022 Mar 2, 2022 03/2/22

Ken Schlobohm

You can begin your journey to ASP.NET Core by migrating one page at a time and do it by reusing the code you already have today. This article shows how to share controllers, models, and views from the 10-year-old MVC Music Store with a new ASP.NET Core project.

Performance improvements in ASP.NET Core 6

January 27, 2022 Jan 27, 2022 01/27/22

Brennan Conroy

ASP.NET Core in .NET 6 brought several performance improvements. In this article I cover some top improvements and why now is a great time to upgrade to .NET 6.

Announcing Entity Framework Core 6.0 Preview 4: Performance Edition

May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 05/25/21

Shay Rojansky

Learn about some serious optimizations that have gone into Entity Framework Core 6.0, and how much faster it now performs.

Open-source HTTP API packages and tools

February 11, 2021 Feb 11, 2021 02/11/21

Brady Gaster

This post covers a variety of things any .NET developer who plans on building HTTP APIs will want in their toolchain or dependency list. We'll show you some new and exciting frameworks coming up that are built atop ASP.NET Core web API and hopefully make the craft of building and testing HTTP APIs with .NET easier. There are so many opport

Creating Discoverable HTTP APIs with ASP.NET Core 5 Web API

February 4, 2021 Feb 4, 2021 02/4/21

Brady Gaster

This month, we'll be focusing on building HTTP APIs with .NET 5. We'll explore a myriad of different tools, technologies, and services that make your API development experience more delightful. Each week, we'll release a new post on this blog that goes into a separate area of building HTTP APIs with .NET, focusing mostly on using ASP.NET Core ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core (EF Core) 5 RC2

October 13, 2020 Oct 13, 2020 10/13/20

Jeremy Likness

Entity Framework Core EF Core 5.0 gets closer to a final release. RC2 is now available with bug fixes and a go-live license.

Debug Your .NET Core Apps in WSL 2 with Visual Studio

September 17, 2020 Sep 17, 2020 09/17/20

Nathan Carlson

The .NET Core Debugging with WSL 2 – Preview extension lets run and debug your .NET Core apps in WSL 2 from Visual Studio.

ASP.NET Core Apps Observability

February 26, 2020 Feb 26, 2020 02/26/20

Francisco Beltrao

Based on interactions with customers using .NET Core in different environments, this article explores options for adding observability to .NET Core apps. Looking specifically into OpenTelemetry and Application Insights SDKs to add observability to a sample distributed application.

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