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ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview1: HTTP/2 in Kestrel

August 22, 2018 Aug 22, 2018 08/22/18
Sourabh Shirhatti [MSFT]
As part of the 2.2.0-preview1 release, we’ve added support for HTTP/2 in Kestrel. What is HTTP/2? HTTP/2 is a major revision of the HTTP protocol. Some of the notable features of HTTP/2 are support for header compression and fully multiplexed streams over the same connection. While HTTP/2 preserves HTTP’s semantics (HTTP headers, methods...

ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview1 now available

August 22, 2018 Aug 22, 2018 08/22/18
Sourabh Shirhatti [MSFT]
Today we’re very happy to announce that the first preview of the next minor release of ASP.NET Core and .NET Core is now available for you to try out. We’ve been working hard on this release over the past months, along with many folks from the community, and it’s now ready for a wider audience to try it out and provide the feedback that ...

Improvements in Visual Studio 2017 15.8 for web and Azure developers

August 15, 2018 Aug 15, 2018 08/15/18
Jeffrey Fritz
With the release of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 brings improvements for web developers such as custom docker image tags during publish, zip push deployment for Azure functions, managing Azure functions application settings, and enabling Application Insights as part of publishing to Azure App Service. Also learn about managing user secrets in ASP.NET framework projects, optimizing build performance for solutions containing ASP.NET frame as well as author and source information for ASP.NET Core templates.

Blazor 0.5.0 experimental release now available

July 25, 2018 Jul 25, 2018 07/25/18
Daniel Roth
Blazor 0.5.0 is now available! This release explores scenarios where Blazor is run in a separate process from the rendering process. Specifically, Blazor 0.5.0 enables the option to run Blazor on the server and then handle all UI interactions over a SignalR connection. This release also adds some very early support for debugging your Blazor .NET code in the browser!

Changes to script debugging in Visual Studio 15.7

June 29, 2018 Jun 29, 2018 06/29/18
Angelos Petropoulos
We’re always looking for ways to make developing with Visual Studio faster.  One of the tasks developers do many times a day is launching debugging sessions.  We identified that script debugging added about 1.5s per F5, but only about 15.5% of people actively debugged script using Visual Studio. Based on the above, in Visual Studio 15.7 ...

ASP.NET Core 2.1.0 now available

May 30, 2018 May 30, 2018 05/30/18
Daniel Roth
Today we're thrilled to announce the release of ASP.NET Core 2.1.0! This is the latest release of our open-source and cross-platform web framework for .NET and it's now ready for production use. Get started with ASP.NET Core 2.1 today! New features in this release include: Check out What's New ...

Troubleshooting ASP.NET Core Performance Problems

May 23, 2018 May 23, 2018 05/23/18
Jeffrey Fritz
This is a guest post by Mike Rousos I recently had an opportunity to help a developer with an ASP.NET Core app that was functionally correct but slow when under a heavy user load. We found a few different factors contributing to the app's slowdown while investigating, but the majority of the issues were some variation of blocking threads that...

ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-rc1 now available

May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 05/7/18
Daniel Roth
Today we’re happy to announce the first release candidate of ASP.NET Core 2.1! This release should be very close to the final stable release of ASP.NET Core 2.1 and includes primarily bug fixes and polish for the features that we shipped in earlier previews. This is a "go live" release that can be used in production with the ...