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Azure Storage for Serverless .NET Apps in Minutes

January 25, 2018 Jan 25, 2018 01/25/18
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Azure Storage is a quick and effortless way to store data for applications that has high availability, is secure, scales and is redundant. This blog post walks through a simple application that creates a short code for a long URL to easily reference it. It uses Table Storage to map codes to URLs and a Queue to process redirect counts. ...

.NET Framework January 2018 Security and Quality Rollup

January 9, 2018 Jan 9, 2018 01/9/18
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Updated: January 25, 2018 Today, we are releasing the January 2018 Security and Quality Rollup. An issue with the January 2018 Monthly Rollup was found on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 if .NET Framework 4.7.1 was already installed. It has been resolved. The download links for these Windows versions have been updated in the table ...

.NET for UWP January 2018 Update

January 9, 2018 Jan 9, 2018 01/9/18
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Today, we are releasing the .NET for UWP January 2018 Update. This post includes the fix included and instructions on how to update your applications. Security CVE-2018-0786 – Security Feature Bypass in X509 Certificate Validation Microsoft is aware of a security vulnerability in the public versions of .NET Core where an attacker could ...

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 ...

.NET Core January 2018 Update

January 9, 2018 Jan 9, 2018 01/9/18
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core January 2018 Update. This includes .NET Core  1.0.9, 1.1.6 and 2.0.5. Please leave feedback on the release in the comments below or at dotnet/core #1199. Security CVE-2018-0786 - Security Feature Bypass in X509 Certificate Validation Microsoft is aware of a security vulnerability in the public versions ...

Announcing Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 5.2.4, Web API 5.2.4, and Web Pages 3.2.4

January 5, 2018 Jan 5, 2018 01/5/18
Daniel Roth
Today we are releasing Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 5.2.4, Web API 5.2.4, and Web Pages 3.2.4 on NuGet. This release contains some minor bug fixes and a couple of new features specifically targeted at enabling .NET Standard support for the ASP.NET Web API Client. You can find the full list of features and bug fixes for this release in the release...

Take a Break with Azure Functions

December 21, 2017 Dec 21, 2017 12/21/17
Justin Clareburt (MSFT)
So, it's the Holidays. The office is empty, the boss is away, and you've got a bit of free time on your hands. How about learning a new skill and having some fun? Azure Functions are a serverless technology that executes code based on various triggers (i.e. a URL is called, an item is placed on a queue, a file is added to blob storage, a ...

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...

Migrating your existing .NET application to the cloud? Tell us about it!

December 5, 2017 Dec 5, 2017 12/5/17
.NET Team
Hi everyone! The .NET team is conducting a survey to learn more about your approach for moving existing .NET applications to the cloud.  The survey should take less than 5 minutes to complete. Take the Survey now! (image) The survey will also allow you to provide your contact details which will allow a .NET team member to reach out to you...