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Welcome to the New Blog Template for ASP.NET Developers

September 8, 2017 Sep 8, 2017 09/8/17
Mads Kristensen
By Juliet Daniel, Lucas Isaza, and Uma Lakshminarayan Have you always wanted to build a blog or other web application but haven't had the time or educational resources to learn? With our blog template, available in our GitHub repo, you can create your web application fast and effortlessly, and even learn to master the new Razor Pages ...

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. ...

The week in .NET – Let’s Encrypt Web App Renewer, Seattle CodeCamp 2017

August 29, 2017 Aug 29, 2017 08/29/17
Bertrand Le Roy
Previous posts: Open-source project of the week: Let's Encrypt Azure Web App Renewer There's a growing consensus that all web sites should transition now to be encrypted with HTTPS. This comes at a cost, and with the friction associated with acquiring and renewing certificates. The problem of cost is now addressed by Let's Encrypt, but ...

UWP & .NET Standard 2.0: A preview is now available!

August 25, 2017 Aug 25, 2017 08/25/17
Immo Landwerth
Today, we released the first Preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.4. This includes an update to the UWP tooling that supports .NET Standard 2.0. In this post, I'll outline what this means for UWP development with .NET. Prerequisites In order to use .NET Standard 2.0 in UWP, you need to target Fall Creators Update (FCU) as the minimum ...

Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms: Architecture and Patterns guidance

August 25, 2017 Aug 25, 2017 08/25/17
Cesar De la Torre
(image) As part of the series of posts announced at this initial blog post (.NET Application Architecture Guidance) that explores each of the architecture areas currently covered by our team, this current blog post focuses on "Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms: Architecture and Patterns guidance". Just as a reminder, the four introductory ...

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 ...

.NET Framework Update for AppContext

August 18, 2017 Aug 18, 2017 08/18/17
Rich Lander [MSFT]
A new update for .NET Framework is now available for the AppContext class. The behavior of the AppContext class was recently regressed. The update returns the class to the correct behavior. This update affects the .NET Framework 4.6 and later. The update is not required on Windows 10. The AppContext class was introduced in the .NET Framework ...

.NET Framework August 2017 Preview of Quality Rollup

August 16, 2017 Aug 16, 2017 08/16/17
Rich Lander [MSFT]
The August 2017 Preview of Quality Rollup is now available. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. ASP.NET CLR Management Windows Forms WCF WPF Note: Additional information on these improvements is not available. The VSTS ...

The week in .NET – .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, Entity Framework Core 2.0, Visual Studio 2017 Update 3, enterprise Entity Framework Core in Boston, and links!

August 15, 2017 Aug 15, 2017 08/15/17
Bertrand Le Roy
Previous posts: .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, Entity Framework 2.0, and Visual Studio 2017 Update 3 launched! This is a week to celebrate for the .NET community, as .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, and Entity Framework 2.0 shipped! We're also getting an update to Visual Studio 2017 with lots of improvements for .NET Core developers. ...