Daniel Roth

Principal Product Manager, ASP.NET

Daniel Roth is a Program Manager on the ASP.NET team at Microsoft.

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ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1: Functional testing of MVC applications

March 5th, 2018
For ASP.NET Core 2.1 we have created a new package, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Testing, to help streamline in-memory end-to-end testing of MVC applications using . This package takes care of some of the typical pitfalls when trying to test MVC applications using TestServer. Create a test project To try out the new MVC test fixture, let...

ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1: Introducing Identity UI as a library

March 2nd, 2018
ASP.NET Core has historically provided project templates with code for setting up ASP.NET Core Identity, which enables support for identity related features like user registration, login, account management, etc. While ASP.NET Core Identity handles the hard work of dealing with passwords, two-factor authentication, account confirmation, and ...

ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1: Razor UI in class libraries

March 1st, 2018
One frequently requested scenario that ASP.NET Core 2.1 improves is building UI in reusable class libraries. With ASP.NET Core 2.1 you can package your Razor views and pages (.cshtml files) along with your controllers, page models, and data models in reusable class libraries that can be packaged and shared. Apps can then include pre-built UI ...

ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1: Improvements for building Web APIs

February 27th, 2018
ASP.NET Core 2.1 adds a number of features that make it easier and more convenient to build Web APIs. These features include Web API controller specific conventions, more robust input processing and error handling, and JSON patch improvements. Please note that some of these features require enabling MVC compatibility with 2.1, so be sure to ...

ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1: Improvements for using HTTPS

February 27th, 2018
Securing web apps with HTTPS is more important than ever before. Browser enforcement of HTTPS is becoming increasingly strict. Sites that don't use HTTPS are increasingly labeled as insecure. Browsers are also starting to enforce that new and existing web features must only be used from an secure context (Chromium, Mozilla). New privacy ...

Announcing ASP.NET MVC 5.2.4, Web API 5.2.4, and Web Pages 3.2.4

February 12th, 2018
Today we released stable packages for ASP.NET MVC 5.2.4, Web API 5.2.4, and Web Pages 3.2.4 on NuGet. This release contains some minor bug fixes and a couple of new features specifically targeted at enabling .NET Standard support for the ASP.NET Web API Client. You can read about the .NET Standard support for the ASP.NET Web API Client in the ...

A new experiment: Browser-based web apps with .NET and Blazor

February 6th, 2018
Today I’m excited to announce a new experimental project from the ASP.NET team called Blazor. Blazor is an experimental web UI framework based on C#, Razor, and HTML that runs in the browser via WebAssembly. Blazor promises to greatly simplify the task of building fast and beautiful single-page applications that run in any browser. It does ...

ASP.NET Core 2.1 roadmap

February 2nd, 2018
Five months ago, we shipped ASP.NET Core 2.0 as a foundational release for our high performance, cross-platform web framework for .NET and .NET Core. Since then we have been hard at work to deliver the next wave of features in ASP.NET Core 2.1. Below is an outline of the features and improvements that are planned for this release, which is ...

Announcing Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 5.2.4, Web API 5.2.4, and Web Pages 3.2.4

January 5th, 2018
Today we are releasing Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 5.2.4, Web API 5.2.4, and Web Pages 3.2.4 on NuGet. This release contains some minor bug fixes and a couple of new features specifically targeted at enabling .NET Standard support for the ASP.NET Web API Client. You can find the full list of features and bug fixes for this release in the release...

Testing ASP.NET Core MVC web apps in-memory

December 7th, 2017
This post was written and submitted by Javier Calvarro Nelson, a developer on the ASP.NET Core MVC team Testing is an important part of the development process of any application. In this blog post we are going to explore how we can test ASP.NET Core MVC applications using an in-memory server. This approach has several advantages: The...