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Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – September 6, 2016
This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams covering the accomplishments of the team on the new ASP.NET Core framework over the previous week. Within 30 minutes, Scott Hanselman, Damian Edwards, Jon Galloway and an occasional guest or two discuss new features and ask for feedback on important decisions being made by the ASP.NET development teams. Each week the standup is hosted live on Google Hangouts and the team publishes the r...
The week in .NET – 9/7/2016
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 8/30/2016. On .NET Last week, Ayende Rahien was on the show to talk about RavenDB and .NET: This week, we'll speak with Benjamin Fistein and Jakub Míšek from Peachpie to get an update on their PHP compiler for .NET, which now works on .NET Core and Docker, and can consumer NuGet packages. The show begins at 10AM Pacific Time on Channel 9. We'll take questions on Gitter, on the dotnet/home channel. Please use the tag. It's OK to start sending us questions in advance if you can't do it live during the show. Tool of the week: Shaderlab VS Shaders are extremely...
Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – August 30, 2016
This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams covering the accomplishments of the team on the new ASP.NET Core framework over the previous week. Within 30 minutes, Scott Hanselman, Damian Edwards, Jon Galloway and an occasional guest or two discuss new features and ask for feedback on important decisions being made by the ASP.NET development teams. Each week the standup is hosted live on Google Hangouts and the team publishes the reco...
Announcing the ongoing Bug Bounty for .NET Core and ASP.NET Core
It's with a great deal of pleasure that I can announce an on-going bug bounty for .NET Core and ASP.NET Core, our cross platform runtime and web stack. During the RC1 and RC2 bounty periods we received quite a few interesting, intriguing and even puzzling bugs which we've addressed. The RC 1 bounty included one report which prompted an entire rewrite of a feature to make it easier for developers to use successfully. Nothing makes me happier than being able to reward and recognize security researchers for their hard work in discovering and reporting these bugs and I look forward to continuing working with and co...
The week in .NET – 8/30/2016
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 8/23/2016. On .NET Last week, Phillip Carter was on the show and gave some pretty neat intro-level F# demos. This week, we'll talk to Ayende Rahien from Hibernating Rhinos, about RavenDB and .NET. The show begins at 11AM Pacific Time on Channel 9. We'll take questions on Gitter, on the dotnet/home channel. Please use the tag. It's OK to start sending us questions in advance if you can't do it live during the show. Package of the week: F# Data The F# Data library takes full advantage of F# type providers to help you read data from various providers such as C...
Changes to Expiring API Keys
In June, we published a blog post announcing Expiring API Keys. We received a lot of great feedback from the community about it. In retrospect, we did not do a great job explaining the motivation and reasoning for this security measure to the community. This post goes into more detail about why we introduced Expiring API Keys, the immediate changes we are making to the design to address feedback, and improvements to our process to prevent a similar situation from happening in the future. Your Feedback Let’s start with a summary of the most consistent feedback we heard from the initial plan: Thanks fo...
What’s New in C# 7.0
Update (4/2017): See New Features in C# 7.0, the update to this post. What follows is a description of all the planned language features in C# 7.0. With the release of Visual Studio "15" Preview 4, most of these features are coming alive. Now is a great time to take them for a spin and tell us your thoughts! C# 7.0 adds a number of new features and brings a focus on data consumption, code simplification and performance. Perhaps the biggest features are tuples, which make it easy to have multiple results, and pattern matching which simplifies code that is conditional on the shape of data. But there a...
The week in .NET – 8/23/2016
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 8/16/2016. On .NET Last week, we moved into our new studios with Channel 9, where JB Evain joined me to interview Lucas Meijer from Unity. We had our fair share of technical hiccups, but Lucas gave some great demos: This week, we'll bump up the lights a bit, and I won't forget my power supply (promise). We'll have Phillip Carter on the show, to give an intro to F#. Join us at 10AM Pacific Time on Thursday, on Channel 9. Tool of the week: I can has .NET Core Another extremely useful web tool by the people behind Octopus Deploy, "I can has .NET Core" explores ...
The path towards better documentation
Update 9/20 (11:00 A.M PST): The revamped NuGet Docs experience is now live on docs.nuget.org. Read more about it here - New experience for NuGet Documentation docs.nuget.org is the authoritative guide on everything NuGet. It is used as reference by nearly 180k developers with over 500k page views a month. Summary of the most consistent feedback we heard is given below: In this post, we are going to talk about the changes we recently made based on your feedback, and plans going forward. Before diving into details, we would like to thank a number of people who have helped us review and give feedback on t...