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.NET Core is a new framework released by Microsoft around a couple of years ago that fixed all the shortcomings of their stack before that. It was cross platform, performant, lean and best of all, open source. But why should you choose it over many other frameworks and stacks available out there?

Last week while upgrading my podcast site to ASP.NET Core 2.1 and .NET. Core 2.1 I moved my Http Client instances over to be created by the new HttpClientFactory. Now I have a single central place where my HttpClient objects are created and managed, and I can set policies as I like on each named client.

In this post I describe part 1 of how to deploy a Dockerized ASP.NET Core application to Kubernetes on Azure using a VSTS CI/CD pipeline.

What's new in recent JetBrains Rider updates

Back before .NET Core 2.0 shipped, I wrote a post highlighting various performance improvements in .NET Core 2.0 when compared with .NET Core 1.1 and the .NET Framework. As .NET Core 2.1 is in its final stages of being released, I thought it would be a good time to have some fun and take a tour through some of the myriad of performance improvements that have found their way into this release.

In this post I shown how you can use an IActionFilter in ASP.NET Core MVC to read the method parameters for an action method before it executes.

Today we’re releasing the second preview of EF Core 2.1, alongside .NET Core 2.1 Preview 2 and ASP.NET Core 2.1 Preview 2. Thank you so much to everyone who has tried our early builds and has helped shape this release with their feedback and code contributions! The new preview bits are now available in NuGet as individual packages, and as part of the ASP.NET Core 2.1 Preview 2 metapackage and in the .NET Core 2.1 Preview 2 SDK, also released today.

In this post, Premier Developer Consultant Randy Patterson introduces the new configuration API for ASP.NET Core and its order of precedence. In previous version of ASP.NET, configuration was primarily handled by the ConfigurationManager class. This class typically obtained the user configurable settings from the AppSettings section located in the XML file web.config. While these limited...

API Versioning is one of those never ending debates that happens anytime you want to build an API no matter how many APIs you have built…

The runtime code generation is a powerful practice that many developers are still reluctant to use. A typical, useful and simple point to start exploring the...