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Announcing the Fastest ASP.NET Yet, ASP.NET Core 1.1 RTM

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Jeffrey Fritz
We are happy to announce that ASP.NET Core 1.1 is now available as a stable release on nuget.org! This release includes a bunch of great new features along with many bug fixes and general enhancements. We invite you to try out the new features and to provide feedback. To update an existing project to ASP.NET Core 1.1 you will need to do the...

Bearer Token Authentication in ASP.NET Core

October 27, 2016 Oct 27, 2016 10/27/16
Jeffrey Fritz
This is a guest post from Mike Rousos Introduction ASP.NET Core Identity automatically supports cookie authentication. It is also straightforward to support authentication by external providers using the Google, Facebook, or Twitter ASP.NET Core authentication packages. One authentication scenario that requires a little bit more work, though...

Announcing ASP.NET Core 1.1 Preview 1

October 25, 2016 Oct 25, 2016 10/25/16
Jeffrey Fritz
Today we are happy to announce the release of ASP.NET Core 1.1 Preview 1. This release includes a bunch of great new features along with many bug fixes and general enhancements. We invite you to try out the new features and to provide feedback. To update an existing project to ASP.NET Core 1.1 Preview 1 you will need to do the following: 1. ...

Introducing IdentityServer4 for authentication and access control in ASP.NET Core

September 19, 2016 Sep 19, 2016 09/19/16
Jeffrey Fritz
This is a guest post by Brock Allen and Dominick Baier. They are security consultants, speakers, and the authors of many popular open source security projects, including IdentityServer. Modern applications need modern identity. The protocols used for implementing features like authentication, single sign-on, API access control and federation ...

Announcing the ASP.NET Core September 2016 Patch Release

September 13, 2016 Sep 13, 2016 09/13/16
Jeffrey Fritz
Today we are making available a patch release to the ASP.NET Core 1.0 release.  This patch contains some updates to MVC, Routing, AntiForgery, Entity Framework Core, and the Kestrel server.  Release notes and links to the issues that are addressed for these packages are available on GitHub.  There are updated ASP.NET Core templates ...

Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – September 6, 2016

September 8, 2016 Sep 8, 2016 09/8/16
Jeffrey Fritz
This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams covering the accomplishments of the team on the new ASP.NET Core framework over the previous week. Within 30 minutes...

Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – August 30, 2016

September 6, 2016 Sep 6, 2016 09/6/16
Jeffrey Fritz
This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams covering the accomplishments of the team on the new ASP.NET Core framework over the previous week. Within 30 minutes...

Announcing the ongoing Bug Bounty for .NET Core and ASP.NET Core

September 1, 2016 Sep 1, 2016 09/1/16
Barry Dorrans
It's with a great deal of pleasure that I can announce an on-going bug bounty for .NET Core and ASP.NET Core, our cross platform runtime and web stack. During the RC1 and RC2 bounty periods we received quite a few interesting, intriguing and even puzzling bugs which we've addressed. The RC 1 bounty included one report which prompted an entire...

Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – July 12, 2016

July 13, 2016 Jul 13, 2016 07/13/16
Jeffrey Fritz
This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams covering the accomplishments of the team on the new ASP.NET Core framework over the previous week. Within 30 minutes...

Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – July 5, 2016

July 13, 2016 Jul 13, 2016 07/13/16
Jeffrey Fritz
This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams covering the accomplishments of the team on the new ASP.NET Core framework over the previous week. Within 30 minutes...