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Announcing SignalR (alpha) for ASP.NET Core 2.0

September 14, 2017 Sep 14, 2017 09/14/17
Glenn Condron [MSFT]
NOTE: This is a post about the Alpha version of SignalR which has since been replaced with a new preview: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2018/02/27/asp-net-core-2-1-0-preview1-getting-started-with-signalr/ Today we are glad to announce an alpha release of SignalR for ASP.NET Core 2.0. This is the first official preview release of a ...

Getting Started with Windows Containers

September 7, 2017 Sep 7, 2017 09/7/17
Alina Popa
Containers provide a way of running an application in a controlled environment, isolated from other applications running on the machine, and from the underlying infrastructure. They are a cost-effective way of abstracting away the machine, ensuring that the application runs in the same conditions, from development, to test, to production. ...

ASP.NET Core 2.0 Features

August 25, 2017 Aug 25, 2017 08/25/17
Glenn Condron [MSFT]
Last week we announced the release of ASP.NET Core 2.0 and described some top new features, including Razor Pages, new and updated templates, and Application Insights integration. In this blog post we are going to dig into more details of features in 2.0. This list is not exhaustive or in any particular order, but highlights a number of ...

Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.0

August 14, 2017 Aug 14, 2017 08/14/17
Jeffrey Fritz
The ASP.NET team is proud to announce general availability of ASP.NET Core 2.0.  This release features compatibility with .NET Core 2.0, tooling support in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3, and the new Razor Pages user-interface design paradigm.  For a full list of updates, you can read the release notes and you can check the list of changed ...

Introducing ASP.NET Core 2.0 Preview 2

June 28, 2017 Jun 28, 2017 06/28/17
Jeffrey Fritz
At Build 2017, we released an initial preview version of ASP.NET Core 2.0.  Over the last two months we have incorporated your feedback and added a number of new features.  We now have a Preview 2 version of the ASP.NET Core 2.0 framework and Visual Studio tools for you to try.  In this post, we will review some of the new features in this ...

Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.0.0-Preview1 and Updates for .NET Web Developers

May 10, 2017 May 10, 2017 05/10/17
Jeffrey Fritz
The ASP.NET team is pleased to share the first preview version of the ASP.NET Core 2.0 framework.  In this post, we’ll look at the new features and changes to the web framework that were announced at the Build 2017 keynote and sessions.  We will also look at some other updates that were published for ASP.NET 4.7 and WCF. ASP.NET Core 2.0....

ASP.NET Core Logging with Azure App Service and Serilog

April 26, 2017 Apr 26, 2017 04/26/17
Jeffrey Fritz
This guest post was written by Mike Rousos ASP.NET Core supports diagnostic logging through the Microsoft.Extensions.Logging package. This logging solution (which is used throughout ASP.NET Core, including internally by the Kestrel host) is highly extensible. There's already documentation available to help developers get started with ...

JWT Validation and Authorization in ASP.NET Core

April 6, 2017 Apr 6, 2017 04/6/17
Jeffrey Fritz
This post was written and submitted by Michael Rousos In several previous posts, I discussed a customer scenario I ran into recently that required issuing bearer tokens from an ASP.NET Core authentication server and then validating those tokens in a separate ASP.NET Core web service which may not have access to the authentication server. The ...