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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 ...

.NET Framework Monthly Rollup: October 2016

October 11, 2016 Oct 11, 2016 10/11/16
Stacey Haffner [MSFT]
Today marks the first release of the new .NET Framework Monthly Rollup. Here's what went into the release: Security Microsoft Security Bulletin MS16-120 - Important: Security Update for Microsoft Graphics Component (3192884) This update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Skype for Business, Silverlight, Microsoft...

.NET Framework Monthly Rollups Explained

October 11, 2016 Oct 11, 2016 10/11/16
Stacey Haffner [MSFT]
Updated (2017/5/31) We recently introduced the .NET Framework Monthly Rollup, a new and simpler way for you to install all applicable .NET Framework updates in a single step. We wanted to go into more depth on these new releases. This post describes the three monthly update types that you can install. It shows you what the install ...

The week in .NET – On .NET on Net Standard 2.0 – Nancy – Satellite Reign

October 11, 2016 Oct 11, 2016 10/11/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – On .NET on Cecil – NAudio – SpeechCentral – Hand of Fate. On .NET Last week, Immo Landwerth was on the show to talk about Net Standard 2.0: This week, we'll speak with Joe Morris and Srivatsn Narayanan about the new .NET Core build system. The show is on Thursdays and begins at 10AM...

The week in .NET – On .NET on Cecil – NAudio – SpeechCentral – Hand of Fate

October 4, 2016 Oct 4, 2016 10/4/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET: On .NET on Orchard 2 – Mocking on Core – StoryTeller – Armello. On .NET Last week, JB Evain was on the show: This week, we'll speak with Immo Landwerth from the .NET team about NetStandard 2.0. The show begins at 10AM Pacific Time on Channel 9. We'll take questions on Gitter, on the ...

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 ...

Implementing Seeding, Custom Conventions and Interceptors in EF Core 1.0

September 29, 2016 Sep 29, 2016 09/29/16
Mike Rousos
This post was written by Alina Popa, a software engineer on the .NET team. Updated 10/5/2016: This post has been updated to use improved Entity Framework Core techniques which don’t rely on internal APIs. Implementing Seeding, Custom Conventions and Interceptors in EF Core 1.0 Introduction Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is a ...

The week in .NET: On .NET on Orchard 2 – Mocking on Core – StoryTeller – Armello

September 27, 2016 Sep 27, 2016 09/27/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET: On .NET with Steeltoe – C# Functional Extensions – Firewatch. On .NET Last week, Sébastien Ros was on the show to talk about Orchard 2: This week, we'll speak with JB Evain about his work on the Visual Studio 2015 Tools for Unity, and maybe also Cecil. The show begins at 12PM Pacific ...

Announcing the DotNetCompilerPlatform 1.0.2 release

September 20, 2016 Sep 20, 2016 09/20/16
Matt FJH
Update Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform is now open sourced on GitHub. If you have any suggestion or issue, please go to this link and post your thought there.   Today I'm pleased to announce that the Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform 1.0.2 package is released on NuGet. It enables ASP.NET to support...

The week in .NET: On .NET with Steeltoe – C# Functional Extensions – Firewatch

September 20, 2016 Sep 20, 2016 09/20/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET: .NET Core 1.0.1 – On .NET with Peachpie – Avalonia – Folk Tale. On .NET Last week, we had David Morhovich and Zach Brown on the show to talk about Steeltoe: This week, we'll speak with Sébastien Ros about Orchard 2, the new version of the .NET CMS that can run on .NET Core. The show ...