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JWT Validation and Authorization in ASP.NET Core

This post was written and submitted by Michael Rousos In several previous posts, I discussed a customer scenario I ran into recently that required issuing bearer tokens from an ASP.NET Core authentication server and then validating those tokens in a separate ASP.NET Core web service which may not have access to the authentication server. The ...

Announcing the .NET Framework 4.7

Last Updated: 6/15/2017 Today, we are announcing the release of the .NET Framework 4.7. It's included in the Windows 10 Creators Update. We've added support for targeting the .NET Framework 4.7 in Visual Studio 2017, also updated today. See Announcing the .NET Framework 4.7 General Availability to learn about and download the .NET ...

The week in .NET – On .NET on SonarLint and SonarQube, Happy birthday .NET with Dan Fernandez, nopCommerce, Steve Gordon

Previous posts: On .NET Last week, I spoke with Tamás Vajk and Olivier Gaudin about SonarLint and SonarQube: This week, we'll have Sébastien Ros on the show to talk about modular ASP.NET applications, as they are implemented in Orchard Core. We'll take questions on Gitter, on the dotnet/home channel and on Twitter. ...

No GCs for your allocations?

Several people mentioned Java’s “no GC” GC proposal and asked if we can add such a thing. So I thought it deserves a blog post. Short answer – we already have such a feature and that’s called the NoGCRegion. The GC.TryStartNoGCRegion API allows you to tell us the amount of allocations you’d like to do and when you stay within it, ...

Hash Passwords with ASP.NET Membership Providers

Are you using the legacy ASP.NET membership providers with your application?  When you look in web.config, is there a membership configuration within the system.web element?  The membership provider has been available since ASP.NET 2, and has been superseded by the Identity provider for a more secure authentication and authorization facility...

The week in .NET – On .NET with Sidharth Gupta on Tizen, Happy birthday .NET with Bertrand Le Roy, JSON.NET 10, Gunnar Peipman

Previous posts: On .NET Last week, we spoke with Sidharth Gupta from Samsung about Tizen. Tizen is Samsung's open-source OS that runs on TVs, watches, phones, and other devices. The development platform for Tizen is built on .NET Core and Xamarin Forms. This week, we'll talk about SonarLint with Tamás Vajk. We'll take...

The week in .NET – Happy birthday .NET with Mads Torgersen, Coypu

Previous posts: On .NET This week, we'll have Sidarth Gupta and Hong-Seok Kim from Samsung on the show to talk about their Tizen OS and its support for .NET Core. The show won't be live this week, because of the time difference with Korea, but you may still send us your questions on Gitter's dotnet/home channel and on Twitter...