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ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1: Using ASP.NET Core Previews on Azure App Service

February 27, 2018 Feb 27, 2018 02/27/18
Glenn Condron [MSFT]
There are 3 options to get ASP.NET Core 2.1 Preview applications running on Azure App Service: 1. Installing the Preview1 site extension 2. Deploying your app self-contained 3. Using Web Apps for Containers Installing the site extension Starting with 2.1-preview1 we are producing an Azure App Service site extension that contains ...

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

February 27, 2018 Feb 27, 2018 02/27/18
Daniel Roth
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 ...

ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1 now available

February 27, 2018 Feb 27, 2018 02/27/18
Damian Edwards
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 will ...

ASP.NET Core 2.1 roadmap

February 2, 2018 Feb 2, 2018 02/2/18
Daniel Roth
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 ...

64 bit ASP.NET Core on Azure App Service

January 9, 2018 Jan 9, 2018 01/9/18
Glenn Condron [MSFT]
When creating an Azure App Service .NET Core is already pre-installed. However, only the 32 bit .NET runtime is installed. In this post we will look at a  few ways that you can get a 64 bit runtime on Azure App Service During the 2.1 timeframe we are hoping to have both 32 and 64 bit runtimes installed as well as enabling the portal ...

Testing ASP.NET Core MVC web apps in-memory

December 7, 2017 Dec 7, 2017 12/7/17
Daniel Roth
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...

Configuring HTTPS in ASP.NET Core across different platforms

November 29, 2017 Nov 29, 2017 11/29/17
Daniel Roth
As the web moves to be more secure by default it's more important than ever to make sure your websites have HTTPS enabled. And if you're going to use HTTPS in production its a good idea to develop with HTTPS enabled so that your development environment is as close to your production environment as possible. In this blog post we're going to go ...

Improve website performance by optimizing images

November 28, 2017 Nov 28, 2017 11/28/17
Mads Kristensen
We all want our web applications to load as fast as possible to give the best possible experience to the users. One of the steps to achieve that is to make sure the images we use are as optimized as possible. If we can reduce the file size of the images then we can significantly reduce the weight of the website. This is important for various ...

Sharing Configuration in ASP.NET Core SPA Scenarios

October 27, 2017 Oct 27, 2017 10/27/17
Jeffrey Fritz
This is a guest post from Mike Rousos ASP.NET Core 2.0 recently released and, with it, came some new templates, including new project templates for single-page applications (SPA) served from an ASP.NET Core backend. These templates make it easy to setup a web application with a rich JavaScript frontend and powerful ASP.NET Core backend. Even ...