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Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.0.0-Preview1 and Updates for .NET Web Developers

May 10, 2017 May 10, 2017 05/10/17
Jeffrey Fritz
The ASP.NET team is pleased to share the first preview version of the ASP.NET Core 2.0 framework.  In this post, we’ll look at the new features and changes to the web framework that were announced at the Build 2017 keynote and sessions.  We will also look at some other updates that were published for ASP.NET 4.7 and WCF. ASP.NET Core 2.0....

Announcing New ASP.NET Core and Web Development Features in Visual Studio 2017

March 7, 2017 Mar 7, 2017 03/7/17
Jeffrey Fritz
We are pleased to announce updates to our ASP.NET tools, ASP.NET Core tools, Container tools, and frameworks that are shipping as part of the Visual Studio 2017 release today.  We have made significant updates to the web development tools to make them easier for you to use and help make you more productive in your daily web development tasks...

Announcing Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks V1 RTM

December 14, 2016 Dec 14, 2016 12/14/16
Henrik F Nielsen
We are very happy to announce ASP.NET WebHooks V1 RTM making it easy to both send and receive WebHooks with ASP.NET. WebHooks provide a simple pub/sub model for wiring together Web APIs and services with your code. A WebHook can be used to get notified when a file has changed in Dropbox, a code change has been committed to GitHub, a payment ...

Put a .NET Core App in a Container with the new Docker Tools for Visual Studio

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Jeffrey Fritz
By now hopefully you’ve heard the good news that we’ve added first class support for building and running .NET applications inside of Docker containers in Visual Studio 2017 RC.  Visual Studio 2017 and Docker support building and running .NET applications using Windows containers (on Windows 10/Server 2016 only), and .NET Core ...

Announcing the Fastest ASP.NET Yet, ASP.NET Core 1.1 RTM

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Jeffrey Fritz
We are happy to announce that ASP.NET Core 1.1 is now available as a stable release on nuget.org! This release includes a bunch of great new features along with many bug fixes and general enhancements. We invite you to try out the new features and to provide feedback. To update an existing project to ASP.NET Core 1.1 you will need to do the...

Announcing ASP.NET Core 1.1 Preview 1

October 25, 2016 Oct 25, 2016 10/25/16
Jeffrey Fritz
Today we are happy to announce the release of ASP.NET Core 1.1 Preview 1. This release includes a bunch of great new features along with many bug fixes and general enhancements. We invite you to try out the new features and to provide feedback. To update an existing project to ASP.NET Core 1.1 Preview 1 you will need to do the following: 1. ...

Introducing the ASP.Net Async SessionState Module

September 29, 2016 Sep 29, 2016 09/29/16
Matt FJH
SessionStateModule is ASP.NET's default session-state handler which retrieves session data and writes it to the session-state store. It already operates asynchronously when acquiring the request state, but it doesn’t support async read/write to the session-state store. In the .NET Framework 4.6.2 release, we introduced a new interface named ...

Announcing the ASP.NET Core September 2016 Patch Release

September 13, 2016 Sep 13, 2016 09/13/16
Jeffrey Fritz
Today we are making available a patch release to the ASP.NET Core 1.0 release.  This patch contains some updates to MVC, Routing, AntiForgery, Entity Framework Core, and the Kestrel server.  Release notes and links to the issues that are addressed for these packages are available on GitHub.  There are updated ASP.NET Core templates ...

Announcing the ongoing Bug Bounty for .NET Core and ASP.NET Core

September 1, 2016 Sep 1, 2016 09/1/16
Barry Dorrans
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...

Announcing ASP.NET Core 1.0

June 27, 2016 Jun 27, 2016 06/27/16
Jeffrey Fritz
The first version of ASP.NET 1.0 came out almost 14 years ago. Since then many developers have used it to build and run great web applications, and over the years we have added and evolved many, many capabilities to it. Today we are excited to announce the release of ASP.NET Core 1.0! This new release is one of the most significant ...