What's new in Orleans 7.0

This month's series on building and integrating your HTTP APIs using Web API and lots of other goodies together comes to a close with this post, which will show you some exciting ways your Web API projects and Azure Functions can be integrated in new and exciting ways when you describe them with OpenAPI. In case you haven't seen the previous posts ...

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

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 5 Web...

In this post, we'll take a look at how we can extract configuration values out of JSON files and into an Azure App Configuration instance, where they can be used by other teammates or apps.

With the updates in .NET Core 3 preview 6, the host logic has been pre-wired to enable the Forwarded Headers Middleware by default as long as the `ASPNETCORE_FORWARDEDHEADERS_ENABLED` environment variable has been set to `true`. This post goes into some detail on how this can fix potential HTTPS issues when behind a reverse proxy.

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5 .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5 is now available. This iteration was brief for the team and primarily includes bug fixes and improvements to the more significant updates in Preview 4. This post summarizes the important points in this release. Please see the release notes for additional details and known iss...

In .NET Core 3.0 we are introducing a new type of application template called Worker Service. This template is intended to give you a starting point for writing long running services in .NET Core. In this walkthrough you'll learn how to use a Worker with Azure Container Registry anAzure Container Instances to get your Worker running as a microservi...

We've just shipped the final 2.4.0 version of ASP.NET SignalR, the version of SignalR for System.Web and/or OWIN-based applications. As we mentioned in a previous post on the future of ASP.NET SignalR, 2.4.0 is a minor release which contains some small bug fixes and updates. The majority of the features and fixes we implemented for ASP.NET SignalR ...

In the Azure SDK 2.9 we’ve made it significantly more convenient for developers who use Azure App Service to host their Web, Mobile, API, and background-processing WebJob apps. We’ve heard from customers who use Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates to create their Azure topologies that they’re rarely creating one web app or one API app. Applicati...