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Azure Functions Tools Roadmap

April 14, 2017 Apr 14, 2017 04/14/17

picru

**Update 5-10-2017: **The first release of Visual Studio 2017 Tools for Azure Functions is now available to try We’ve been humbled by the intense interest in Visual Studio tools for Azure Functions since we shipped our initial preview for Visual Studio 2015 last fall. Unfortunately, given other constraints, Visual Studio 2017 did not ...

Announcing SignalR 2.2.2 (Preview 1)

April 13, 2017 Apr 13, 2017 04/13/17

Jon Galloway

Today we are happy to announce the release of SignalR 2.2.2-preview1. SignalR 2.2.2 is a servicing release, including some highly requested updates and bug fixes. Here are the highlights of the release: * Support for Service Bus 3 (https://github.com/SignalR/SignalR/issues/3548) * NetStandard version of the client (https://github.com/...

The week in .NET – .NET Framework 4.7, reference documentation, On .NET on modular ASP.NET, Happy birthday .NET with Immo Landwerth, JustAssembly

April 11, 2017 Apr 11, 2017 04/11/17

Bertrand Le Roy

Previous posts: .NET Framework 4.7 This week, we announced the release of the .NET Framework 4.7. We’ve added support for targeting the .NET Framework 4.7 in Visual Studio 2017, also updated today. The .NET Framework 4.7 includes improvements in several areas: You can see the complete list of ...

.NET Framework April 2017 Security and Quality Rollup

April 11, 2017 Apr 11, 2017 04/11/17

Rich Lander [MSFT]

Update (2017/05/15): Added Windows 10 entries to KB table. Update (2017/05/09): Known issue information added for the release. Update (2017/04/20): Known issue information added for the release. Today, we are releasing a new Security and Quality Rollup and Security Only Update for the .NET Framework. You can read the April 2017 Security ...

JWT Validation and Authorization in ASP.NET Core

April 6, 2017 Apr 6, 2017 04/6/17

Jeffrey Fritz

This post was written and submitted by Michael Rousos In several previous posts, I discussed a customer scenario I ran into recently that required issuing bearer tokens from an ASP.NET Core authentication server and then validating those tokens in a separate ASP.NET Core web service which may not have access to the authentication server. The ...

Announcing the .NET Framework 4.7

April 5, 2017 Apr 5, 2017 04/5/17

Rich Lander [MSFT]

Last Updated: 6/15/2017 Today, we are announcing the release of the .NET Framework 4.7. It's included in the Windows 10 Creators Update. We've added support for targeting the .NET Framework 4.7 in Visual Studio 2017, also updated today. See Announcing the .NET Framework 4.7 General Availability to learn about and download the .NET ...

The week in .NET – On .NET on SonarLint and SonarQube, Happy birthday .NET with Dan Fernandez, nopCommerce, Steve Gordon

April 4, 2017 Apr 4, 2017 04/4/17

Bertrand Le Roy

Previous posts: On .NET Last week, I spoke with Tamás Vajk and Olivier Gaudin about SonarLint and SonarQube: This week, we'll have Sébastien Ros on the show to talk about modular ASP.NET applications, as they are implemented in Orchard Core. We'll take questions on Gitter, on the dotnet/home channel and on Twitter. ...

How to create your own templates for dotnet new

April 2, 2017 Apr 2, 2017 04/2/17

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi

You can now create your own templates for dotnet new. Creating and installing your own templates is an experimental feature at this point, but one that we are seeing significant interest in and that deserves more of your feedback before we enable it for broad use with .NET Core 2.0. The version of dotnet new shipped with the .NET Core 1.0 SDK ...

No GCs for your allocations?

April 2, 2017 Apr 2, 2017 04/2/17

maoni

Several people mentioned Java’s “no GC” GC proposal and asked if we can add such a thing. So I thought it deserves a blog post. Short answer – we already have such a feature and that’s called the NoGCRegion. The GC.TryStartNoGCRegion API allows you to tell us the amount of allocations you’d like to do and when you stay within it, ...

Hash Passwords with ASP.NET Membership Providers

March 31, 2017 Mar 31, 2017 03/31/17