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

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 ...

Fall .NET Core Survey

It’s been a busy time for .NET Core – we just shipped 3.0, and are currently working on a few updates for v3.1 (due in November.) As we turn our attention to .NET Core 5.0, we want to take a step back and see what you are doing with .NET Core and how we can make it even better. We have put together a quick survey that will help us ...

.NET Framework October 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup

Today, we are releasing the October 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup and Cumulative Updates for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. ASP.NET CLR1 Windows Forms WPF2 1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) 2 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Known ...

Announcing .NET Core 3.1 Preview 1

Today, we're announcing .NET Core 3.1 Preview 1. .NET Core 3.1 will be a small release focused on key improvements in Blazor and Windows desktop, the two big additions in .NET Core 3.0. It will be a long term support (LTS) release with an expected final ship date of December 2019. You can download .NET Core 3.1 Preview 1 on Windows, macOS, ...

.NET Framework October 2019 Security and Quality Rollup

Today, we are releasing the October 2019 Security and Quality Rollup and Cumulative Updates for .NET Framework. Security No new security fixes. See September 2019 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. BCL1 CLR2...

Introducing .NET Core Windows Forms Designer Preview 1

Introducing .NET Core Windows Forms Designer Preview 1 We just released a GA version of .NET Core 3.0 that includes support for Windows Forms and WPF. And along with that release we're happy to announce the first preview version of the Windows Forms Designer for .NET Core projects! (image) For developers the .NET Core Windows Forms ...

.NET Framework September 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup

We have released the September 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup and Cumulative Updates for .NET Framework for Windows 10 Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. BCL1 CLR2 WPF3 1 Base Class Library (BCL) 2 Common Language Runtime (CLR) 3 Windows Presentation Foundation...