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Announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 2

Today, we are announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 2. It includes new features in .NET Core 3.0 and C# 8, in addition to the large number of new features in Preview 1. ASP.NET Core 3.0 Preview 2  is also released today. C# 8 Preview 2 is part of .NET Core 3 SDK, and was also released last week with Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2. Download and get...

ASP.NET SignalR 2.4.0 Preview 2

We've just released the second preview of the upcoming 2.4.0 release of ASP.NET SignalR. As we mentioned in our previous blog post on the future of ASP.NET SignalR we are releasing a minor update to ASP.NET SignalR (the version of SignalR for System.Web and/or OWIN-based applications) that includes, support for the Azure SignalR Service, as ...

ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview1: Healthchecks

What is it? We're adding a health checks service and middleware in 2.2.0 to make it easy to use ASP.NET Core in environments that require health checks - such as Kubernetes. The new features are set of libraries defining an IHealthCheck abstraction and service, as well as a middleware for use in ASP.NET Core. Health checks are used by a ...

ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview1 now available

Today we’re very happy to announce that the first preview of the next minor release of ASP.NET Core and .NET Core is now available for you to try out. We’ve been working hard on this release over the past months, along with many folks from the community, and it’s now ready for a wider audience to try it out and provide the feedback that ...

ASP.NET Core 2.1.0 now available

Today we're thrilled to announce the release of ASP.NET Core 2.1.0! This is the latest release of our open-source and cross-platform web framework for .NET and it's now ready for production use. Get started with ASP.NET Core 2.1 today! New features in this release include: Check out What's New ...

Adding Core References Support in an ASP.NET Empty Project

Adding Core References Support in an ASP.NET Empty Project Brief In Visual Studio 2013 we introduced the core reference framework to ASP.NET project creation. You can choose what core references you want in your to-be-created project. How Let’s take the example of adding Web API core references in an Empty ASP.NET Project ...