ASP.NET Core 6 and Authentication Servers

Barry Dorrans May 7, 2021 May 7, 2021 05/7/21

In .NET 3.0 we began shipping IdentityServer4 as part of our template to support the issuing of JWT tokens for SPA and Blazor applications. Sometime after we shipped, the IdentityServer team made an announcement changing the license for future versions of IdentityServer to a reciprocal public license - a license where the code is still open ...

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Preview 3

Daniel Roth April 8, 2021 Apr 8, 2021 04/8/21

.NET 6 Preview 3 is now available! Check out all the improvements in ASP.NET Core in this update.

Your Top .NET Microservices Questions Answered

Nish Anil April 7, 2021 Apr 7, 2021 04/7/21

We got some great questions during our recent Let's Learn .NET: Microservices event. In this post, Nish Anil answers your top five questions, with links to docs and resources where you can learn more.

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