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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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.NET Core May 2017 Update

Today, we are releasing the .NET Core May Update. This includes .NET Core 1.0.5, 1.1.2 and .NET Core SDK 1.0.4. Details regarding the security issues addressed by this release can be seen in the Security Advisory announcement Security CVE-2017-0247 An issue exists can where, in the presence of a particular sequence of bytes, web pages attempting to display content containing this sequence of bytes may terminate and not display. CVE-2017-0248 A security feature bypass vulnerability exists when Microsoft .NET Core (and .NET Framework) components do not completely validate certificates. An attacker ...

The week in .NET – Microsoft Build 2017, .NET Core 2.0 status, Happy birthday .NET with Eilon Lipton, On .NET with Alfonso GarcÃa-Caro on Fable, Stanford CoreNLP
Previous posts: Microsoft Build 2017 The Microsoft Build 2017 conference starts tomorrow in Seattle! You can watch the conference live starting at 8:00AM Pacific Time and get the scoop. .NET Core 2.0 status Only a few days to go before we reach zero bugs. Great progress has been made, but we are still 163 bugs away from zero. Happy birthday .NET with Eilon Lipton In February we took a camera crew to the Microsoft Alumni Network's big .NET 15th birthday bash and caught up with team members past and present. In this interview we chat with Eilon Lipton who's been a developer at Microsof...

Announcing the .NET Framework 4.7 General Availability
Last Updated: 2017/06/15 Today, we are announcing the general availability of the .NET Framework 4.7. The .NET Framework 4.7 was released as part of Windows 10 Creators Update a month ago. You can now install the .NET Framework 4.7 on other versions of Windows. You can download the .NET Framework 4.7: The .NET Framework 4.7 includes improvements in several areas: Please see the Announcing the .NET Framework 4.7 blog post to learn more about each of these improvements. You can see the complete list of improvements in the .NET Framework 4.7 release notes. We...

The week in .NET – .NET Architecture, .NET Core 2.0 status, Happy Birthday .NET with Matt Gertz, On .NET with Don Schenck on Red Hat, Fable
Previous posts: .NET Architecture There’s a new .NET Architecture web site, where you’ll find practical advice, best practices, and sample applications to help you implement different application patterns using .NET. Check it out! .NET Core 2.0 status 2.0 bugs are mostly under control and we think we will hit our zero-bugs goal on 5/10 with the following exceptions: Recent work includes: Happy Birthday .NET with Matt Gertz Matt Gertz is a group software engineering manager driving the developer experience for C#, Visual Basic, and F#. Ma...

JWT Validation and Authorization in ASP.NET Core

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The MVP Show Learns about ASP.NET, Identity Server, and Heidelberg

In the second episode of the MVP Show, intrepid host Seth Juarez traveled to Heidelberg, Germany to meet with Visual Studio and Development Technologies MVP Dominick Baier. Dominick is one of the developers responsible for the Identity Server open source project. Seth and Dominick shared several videos about all things API, Germany, and Security. Check them out below. Part 1: An Interview with Dominick Baier Part 2: Modern Authentication Architecture Part 3: IdentityServer 4 in action  You can learn more about Identity Server and ASP.NET at the following locations: Identit...

ASP.NET Core Logging with Azure App Service and Serilog

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 ASP.NET Core logging, so I'd like to use this post to highlight how custom log providers (like Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.AzureAppServices and Serilog) make it easy to log to a wide variety of destinations. It's also worth mentioning that nothing in Microsoft.Extension...

The week in .NET – Happy Birthday .NET with Chris Sells, free ASP.NET Core book, We are the Dwarves
Previous posts: Happy birthday .NET with Chris Sells In February, we threw a big .NET birthday bash with Microsoft Alumni and product teams. We caught up with Chris Sells who is currently a Product Manager at Google, and before that a Program Manager at Microsoft. Chris has been part of the .NET developer community since the beginning and he tells us a few great stories in this fun interview. Book of the week: ASP.NET Core succinctly, by Simone Chiaretta and Ugo Lattenzi In ASP.NET Core Succinctly, seasoned authors Simone Chiaretta and Ugo Lattanzi update you on all the advances provided b...

The week in .NET – Happy birthday .NET with Robin Cole, TinyORM, 911 Operator
Previous posts: On .NET This week on the show, we'll speak with Don Schenck about Red Hat. We'll take questions on Gitter, on the dotnet/home channel and on Twitter. Please use the tag. It's OK to start sending us questions in advance if you can't do it live during the show. Happy birthday .NET with Robin Cole In February we got together with many Microsoft alumni and current employees for a huge .NET Birthday bash. We spoke to Robin Cole, who joined Microsoft in 2005 working on many projects including Expression and Visual Studio. In this quick interview, she shares her thoughts on developer...