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.NET Aspire 9.3 is here and enhanced with GitHub Copilot!
.NET Aspire 9.3 is the biggest release of .NET Aspire yet, with the introduction of GitHub Copilot directly into the .NET Aspire Dashboard, updates for integrat...
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Get started building .NET web apps that run in the browser with Blazor
For up to date instructions on how to get started with Blazor, please go to https://blazor.net. Today we released our first public preview of Blazor, a new experimental .NET web framework using C#/Razor and HTML that runs in the browser with WebAssembly. Blazor enables full stack web development with the stability, consistency, and productivity of .NET. While this release is alpha quality and should not be used in production, the code for this release was written from the ground up with an eye towards building a production quality web UI framework. In this release we've laid the ground work for the Blazor compo...
ASP.NET Core manageability and Application Insights improvements
There are many great investments on the ASP.NET Core 2.1 roadmap. These investments make ASP.NET Core applications easier to write, host, test, and make security and standards compliant. This blog post talks about areas of investments in manageability and monitoring space. It covers ASP.NET Core, .NET, and Application Insights SDK for ASP.NET Core features and spans beyond 2.1 milestone. The main themes of manageability improvements across the application stack are: Let’s dig into the improvements made and the roadmap ahead in these areas. Distributed tracing ASP.NET Core 2.0 appli...
Incident report – NuGet.org downtime on March 22, 2018
We did this blog post to report about the incident that happened on March 22, 2018. In the last couple of days we digged deeper into the incident. Here is the summary of our findings and proposed next steps. Customer Impact NuGet.org website and V2 APIs were unavailable for 2 hours on March 22, 2018 between 8:45AM - 11:30AM UTC. More than 1.5 million requests failed. What Happened? On March 22nd, a certificate used internally for authentication with Key Vault expired. It was rotated on all components except for a single Search service. This triggered a chain reaction that made the Gallery service unavailable,...
Announcing Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 5.2.5, Web API 5.2.5, and Web Pages 3.2.5
Today we released Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 5.2.5, Web API 5.2.5, and Web Pages 3.2.5 on NuGet. This is a patch release that contains only bug fixes. You can find the full list of bug fixes for this release in the release notes. To update an existing project to use this preview release run the following commands from the NuGet Package Manager Console for each of the packages you wish to update: Please try out Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 5.2.5, Web API 5.2.5, and Web Pages 3.2.5 and let us know what you think. Any feedback can be submitted as issues on GitHub. Assuming everything with this preview goes smoothly, w...
.NET Framework 4.7.2 Developer Pack Early Access build 3056 is available!
Today, we are happy to share an Early Access build with the .NET Framework 4.7.2 Developer Pack. The .NET Framework 4.7.2 Developer Pack lets developers build applications that target the .NET Framework 4.7.2 by using Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio 2015 or other IDEs. This is a single package that bundles the .NET Framework 4.7.2, the .NET 4.7.2 Targeting Pack, and the .NET Framework 4.7.2 SDK. We would love your help to ensure this is a high quality and compatible release. Next steps: The main difference between the build 3052 we shared few weeks back and this build is the Developer Pack. Thi...
F# language and tools update for Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6
With the release of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6, we’re excited to share updates to the F# language and core library, F# tooling in Visual Studio, and infrastructure updates that concern OSS contributors. Let’s dive in! F# language and core library updates Some foundational changes for the F# language and core library have been made, in addition to smaller behavioral language changes and added features to FSharp.Core. Versioning changes We have drafted and implemented a versioning change for F# moving forward. There are two major changes involved: To do this, we will rev the F# langu...
ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1: Functional testing of MVC applications
For ASP.NET Core 2.1 we have created a new package, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Testing, to help streamline in-memory end-to-end testing of MVC applications using . This package takes care of some of the typical pitfalls when trying to test MVC applications using TestServer. Create a test project To try out the new MVC test fixture, let's create an app and write an end-to-end in-memory test for the app. First, create an app to test. Add an xUnit based test project. Create a solution file and add the projects to the solution. Add a reference from the test project to the app we're going to...
ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1: GDPR enhancements
2018 sees the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation, an EU framework to allow EU citizens to control, correct and delete their data, no matter where in the word it is held. In ASP.NET Core 2.1 Preview 1 we’ve added some features to the ASP.NET Core templates to allow you to meet some of your GDPR obligations, as well as a cookie “consent” features to allow you to annotate your cookies and control whether they are sent to the user based on their consent to have such cookies delivered. HTTPS In order to help keep users' personal data private, ASP.NET Core configures new projects to be served over...
ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1: Introducing Identity UI as a library
ASP.NET Core has historically provided project templates with code for setting up ASP.NET Core Identity, which enables support for identity related features like user registration, login, account management, etc. While ASP.NET Core Identity handles the hard work of dealing with passwords, two-factor authentication, account confirmation, and other hairy security concerns, the amount of code required to setup a functional identity UI is still pretty daunting. The most recent version of the ASP.NET Core Web Application template with Individual User Accounts setup has over 50 files and a couple of thousand lines of c...