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Open-source HTTP API packages and tools

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

.NET Framework February Security and Quality Rollup

Revised 6/8/2021: On June 8th, 2021, this update was released to replace a previous update to address a “revocation server was offline” error that may occur during installation. If you've already installed a previous release of this update, no action is required. Revised 4/15/2021: On April 13th, 2021, this update was released to ...

.NET February 2021 Updates – 5.0.3, 3.1.12, 2.1.25

Today, we are releasing the .NET February 2021 Updates. These updates contains reliability and security improvements. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. You can download 5.0.3 , 3.1.12, 2.1.25 versions for Windows, macOS, and Linux, for x86, x64, Arm32, and Arm64. Security ...

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

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 ...