ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1: Functional testing of MVC applications
For ASP.NET Core 2.1 we have created a new package, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Testing, to help streamline in-memory end-to-end testing of MVC applications using TestServer. This package takes care of...
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Today we released Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 5.2.5, Web API 5.2.5, and Web Pages 3.2.5 on NuGet. This is a patch release that contains only bug fixes. You can find the full list of bug fixes for this...
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ASP.NET Core manageability and Application Insights improvements
There are many great investments on the ASP.NET Core 2.1 roadmap. These investments make ASP.NET Core applications easier to write, host, test, and make security and standards compliant. This blog post...
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Get started building .NET web apps in the browser with Blazor
Today we released our first public preview of Blazor, a new experimental .NET web framework using C#/Razor and HTML that runs in the browser with WebAssembly. Blazor enables full stack web development...
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ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview2 now available
Today we’re very happy to announce that the second preview of the next minor release of ASP.NET Core and .NET Core is now available for you to try out. This second preview includes many refinements...
View ArticleASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview2: Improvements to the Kestrel HTTP server
Change default transport to Sockets Building off the improvements to the managed sockets implementation in .NET Core we have changed the default transport in Kestrel from libuv to sockets. As a...
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Blazor 0.2.0 release now available
Just a few weeks ago we announced the first preview release of an experimental web UI framework called Blazor. Blazor enables full-stack web development using C# and WebAssembly. So far thousands of...
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Library Manager: Client-side content manager for web apps
If you’re developing a modern web app, chances are your app will reference client-side JavaScript and CSS files like jQuery or bootstrap. Maybe you copy these from a previous project, download them, or...
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What Happened to Bower?
Bower is a popular package management system for managing static content used by client-side web applications. Visual Studio provides rich support for Bower, including templates and package management...
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Publish Improvements in Visual Studio 2017 15.7
Today we released Visual Studio 2017 15.7 Preview 4. Our 15.7 update brings some exciting updates for publishing applications from Visual Studio that we’re excited to tell you about, including: Ability...
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Cosmos DB Solves Common Data Challenges in App Development
When considering how to implement your application with a relational database, it can change how you build it dramatically. Some of these challenges include adding an abstract implementation of the...
View ArticleAnnouncing ASP.NET MVC 5.2.5, Web API 5.2.5, and Web Pages 3.2.5
Today we released ASP.NET MVC 5.2.5, Web API 5.2.5, and Web Pages 3.2.5 on NuGet. This is a patch release that contains only bug fixes. You can find the full list of bug fixes for this release in the...
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Blazor 0.3.0 experimental release now available
Blazor 0.3.0 is now available! This release includes important bug fixes and many new feature enhancements. New features in this release (details below): Project templates updated to use Bootstrap 4...
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Exploring Azure App Service – Introduction
Have you ever needed to quickly stand up a web site, or web API app that was publicly available? Is your team or organization thinking about moving to the cloud but aren’t sure the best place to start?...
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ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-rc1 now available
Today we’re happy to announce the first release candidate of ASP.NET Core 2.1! This release should be very close to the final stable release of ASP.NET Core 2.1 and includes primarily bug fixes and...
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Exploring Azure App Service – Web Apps and SQL Azure
There is a good chance that your web app uses a database. In my previous post introducing Azure App Service, I showed some of the benefits of hosting apps in Azure App Service, and how easy it is to...
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A Penny Saved is a Ton of Serverless Compute Earned
Scott Guthrie recently shared one of my favorite anecdotes on his Azure Red Shirt Tour. A Microsoft customer regularly invokes 1 billion (yes, that’s with a “B”) Azure Functions per day. The customer...
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Announcing ASP.NET Providers Connected Service Visual Studio Extension
Provider pattern was introduced in ASP.NET 2.0 and it gives the developers the flexibility of where to store the state of ASP.NET features (e.g. Session State, Membership, Output Cache etc.). In...
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Troubleshooting ASP.NET Core Performance Problems
This is a guest post by Mike Rousos I recently had an opportunity to help a developer with an ASP.NET Core app that was functionally correct but slow when under a heavy user load. We found a few...
View ArticleASP.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...
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