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Five Visual Studio 2017 Extensions for Web Developers

March 21, 2017 Mar 21, 2017 03/21/17
Jeffrey Fritz
You’ve downloaded and installed Visual Studio 2017, and it’s a great improvement over previous versions.  Now what?  How can you make your web development experience better?  In this article, we will recommend five Visual Studio extensions that will make your day-to-day tasks easier and even more enjoyable. Razor Language Service ...

Announcing New ASP.NET Core and Web Development Features in Visual Studio 2017

March 7, 2017 Mar 7, 2017 03/7/17
Jeffrey Fritz
We are pleased to announce updates to our ASP.NET tools, ASP.NET Core tools, Container tools, and frameworks that are shipping as part of the Visual Studio 2017 release today.  We have made significant updates to the web development tools to make them easier for you to use and help make you more productive in your daily web development tasks...

ASP.NET Documentation Now on docs.microsoft.com

February 7, 2017 Feb 7, 2017 02/7/17
Jeffrey Fritz
This post was written by Wade Pickett We are happy to announce ASP.NET documentation and guidance has been migrated to docs.microsoft.com! Better Together and Great Features This brings the ASP.NET documentation together with ASP.NET Core, C#, Entity Framework Core, Azure, Visual Studio, C++, and SQL on Linux. docs.microsoft.com will allow...

ASP.NET Core Authentication with IdentityServer4

January 23, 2017 Jan 23, 2017 01/23/17
Jeffrey Fritz
This is a guest post by Mike Rousos In my post on bearer token authentication in ASP.NET Core, I mentioned that there are a couple good third-party libraries for issuing JWT bearer tokens in .NET Core. In that post, I used OpenIddict to demonstrate how end-to-end token issuance can work in an ASP.NET Core application. Since that post was ...

Put a .NET Core App in a Container with the new Docker Tools for Visual Studio

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Jeffrey Fritz
By now hopefully you’ve heard the good news that we’ve added first class support for building and running .NET applications inside of Docker containers in Visual Studio 2017 RC.  Visual Studio 2017 and Docker support building and running .NET applications using Windows containers (on Windows 10/Server 2016 only), and .NET Core ...

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 ...