Monitoring and Observability in Cloud-Native ASP.NET Core apps

Nish Anil March 31, 2021 Mar 31, 2021 03/31/21

Distributed applications are complex and bring in their own set of challenges for developers to debug and fix production issues. ASP.NET Core offers a number of solutions to add monitoring and observability to your cloud-native applications.

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Preview 2

Daniel Roth March 11, 2021 Mar 11, 2021 03/11/21

.NET 6 Preview 2 is now available! Check out all the improvements in ASP.NET Core in this update.

IntelliSense for appsettings.json

James Newton-King March 2, 2021 Mar 2, 2021 03/2/21

Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code now support IntelliSense for `appsettings.json`. IntelliSense allows you to quickly edit your app's configuration and get immediate feedback on available properties or typos.

App Building with Azure API Management, Functions, Power Apps, and Logic Apps

Brady Gaster February 24, 2021 Feb 24, 2021 02/24/21

This month's series on building and integrating your HTTP APIs using Web API and lots of other goodies together comes to a close with this post, which will show you some exciting ways your Web API projects and Azure Functions can be integrated in new and exciting ways when you describe them with OpenAPI. In case you haven't seen the previous ...

Generating HTTP API clients using Visual Studio Connected Services

Jon Galloway February 23, 2021 Feb 23, 2021 02/23/21

We’re continuing our series on building HTTP APIs with .NET 5. In this post, the third in the series, we’ll talk about how Visual Studio Connected Services gives you a convenient way of generating .NET clients for your HTTP APIs so your .NET apps can use the APIs via the Internet.

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Preview 1

Sourabh Shirhatti [MSFT] February 17, 2021 Feb 17, 2021 02/17/21

.NET 6 Preview 1 is now available and ready for evaluation. This is the first preview of .NET 6, the next major update to the .NET platform. .NET 6 is expected to ship in November of this year, and will be a Long Term Support (LTS) release. If you're on Windows using Visual Studio, we recommend installing the latest preview of Visual Studio ...

Open-source HTTP API packages and tools

Brady Gaster February 11, 2021 Feb 11, 2021 02/11/21

This post covers a variety of things any .NET developer who plans on building HTTP APIs will want in their toolchain or dependency list. We'll show you some new and exciting frameworks coming up that are built atop ASP.NET Core web API and hopefully make the craft of building and testing HTTP APIs with .NET easier. There are so many opport

Creating Discoverable HTTP APIs with ASP.NET Core 5 Web API

Brady Gaster February 4, 2021 Feb 4, 2021 02/4/21

This month, we'll be focusing on building HTTP APIs with .NET 5. We'll explore a myriad of different tools, technologies, and services that make your API development experience more delightful. Each week, we'll release a new post on this blog that goes into a separate area of building HTTP APIs with .NET, focusing mostly on using ASP.NET Core ...

Improvements to the new Razor editor in Visual Studio

Daniel Roth January 26, 2021 Jan 26, 2021 01/26/21

Learn all about the latest improvements to the new Razor editor in Visual Studio.

Announcing ASP.NET Core in .NET 5

Daniel Roth November 10, 2020 Nov 10, 2020 11/10/20

.NET 5 is now released! Check out all of the great new features and improvements in ASP.NET Core in .NET 5.