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Hosting .NET Core Services on Service Fabric

October 13, 2016 Oct 13, 2016 10/13/16
Mike Rousos
This post was written by Vaijanath Angadihiremath, a software engineer on the .NET team. This tutorial is for users who already have a group of ASP.NET Core services which they want to host as microservices in Azure using Azure Service Fabric. Azure Service Fabric is a great way to host microservices in a PaaS world to obtain many benefits ...

Storing and using secrets in Azure

October 3, 2016 Oct 3, 2016 10/3/16
Bertrand Le Roy
Most applications need access to secret information in order to function: it could be an API key, database credentials, or something else. In this post, we'll create a simple service that will compare the temperatures in Seattle and Paris using the OpenWeatherMap API, for which we'll need a secret API key. I'll walk you through the usage of ...

Azure App Service Tools Updates in the Azure SDK for .NET 2.9

March 31, 2016 Mar 31, 2016 03/31/16
Brady Gaster
In the Azure SDK 2.9 we’ve made it significantly more convenient for developers who use Azure App Service to host their Web, Mobile, API, and background-processing WebJob apps. We’ve heard from customers who use Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates to create their Azure topologies that they’re rarely creating one web app or one API ...

Remote Debug ASP.NET Core RC1 on Azure App Service

March 21, 2016 Mar 21, 2016 03/21/16
Brady Gaster
ASP.NET developers who deploy their code to Azure App Service have remote debugging features available from the Visual Studio Server and Cloud Explorer windows. ASP.NET 4x projects can be debugged live in App Service by simply right-clicking your Web, Mobile, or API Apps in Cloud Explorer and clicking the “Attach Debugger” action. Under ...

.NET Framework 4.6.1 is now available!

November 30, 2015 Nov 30, 2015 11/30/15
The .NET Fundamentals Team
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. Updated (1/2016): This post was updated to add information about reference source for .NET Framework 4.6.1. Today we are announcing the availability of  .NET Framework 4.6.1. You can download this release now. Here is a summary of key improvements ...

New Developer and Debugging Features for Azure WebJobs in Visual Studio

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14
Brady Gaster
With Visual Studio Update 3, the Web Tools Extensions team added a number of great features to make it easier for ASP.NET developers publishing web applications to Azure Websites to enable background processing using Azure WebJobs. Since the Update 3 release, Azure WebJobs has reached general availability, and to coincide with the release of ...

Profile and Time your ASP.NET MVC app all the way to Azure

July 29, 2014 Jul 29, 2014 07/29/14
Rick_Anderson
Successful web app dev teams generally consider performance a requirement from the beginning,  not an afterthought. Performance should be considered in all phases of a project, from design and into production, including updates to the app. That's not to say you should try to optimize code before you've measured it, you really don't know...

Announcing ASP.NET Session State Provider for Redis Preview Release

May 12, 2014 May 12, 2014 05/12/14
Guang Yang - MSFT
Today, we are pleased to announce a preview release of ASP.NET Session State Provider for Redis. You can use it with your own Redis server or the newly announce Microsoft Azure Redis Cache (Preview). What is Redis Redis is an open source, BSD licensed, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys ...

The Next Generation of .NET – ASP.NET vNext

May 12, 2014 May 12, 2014 05/12/14
.NET Team
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. Updated (July 2015): See Announcing .NET Framework 4.6 to read about the latest version of the NET Framework. Today at TechEd North America, we announced the latest set of innovations that are part of the next generation of .NET. The biggest of those is ASP.NET ...