.NET Core in Action covers .NET Core and the .NET Standard for both .NET newbies and veterans

Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the SmartBear blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you're there, have a look around and check out Collaborator, the code review tool. Let's say that you wanted a definitive explanation, once and for all, as to what constitutes code quality.

SessionStateModule is ASP.NET's default session-state handler which retrieves session data and writes it to the session-state store. It already operates asynchronously when acquiring the request state, but it doesn't support async read/write to the session-state store. In the .NET Framework 4.6.2 release, we introduced a new interface named ISessionStateModule to enable this scenario.

7 Scenarios on covering how to deploy ASP.NET, NancyFX and F# applications as Docker Containers

F# xUnit library supporting better testing

Microsoft is the first to bring the sovereign Cloud to Germany. Built on a data trustee model, the Microsoft Cloud Germany enables customers in the European Union (EU) and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) to store and manage customer data in compliance with applicable German laws and regulations, as well as key international standards.

External Network Access to Kestrel and IIS Express in ASP.NET Core

Below are three issues with workarounds that could help you

Middleware Madness: Site Maintenance In ASP.NET Core

I was battling the other day writing a custom DataAnnotations ValidationAttribute, where I needed access to a service class to perform the validation. The documentation on creating custom attributes is excellent, covering both server side and client side validation, but it doesn't mention this, presumably relatively common, requirement.

I was on another whirlwind trip back in July, this time to a bunch of spots in the US which included Chicago where Pluralsight has one of their offices. The last time I was there I'd recorded a "Play by Play" course which is video recorded rather than a screen

Xamarin.Forms ships with over 40 pages, layouts, and controls for you to mix-and-match with to build great native, cross-platform user interfaces. One of my favorite features of Xamarin.Forms is that we have access to 100% of the controls and APIs for iOS, Android, and Windows.

As outlined by Joe Duffy, LINQ introduces inefficiencies in the form of hidden allocations, from The 'premature optimization is evil' myth: Good question, who knows, probably only Jon Skeet can tell just by looking at the code!!

This post was written by Alina Popa, a software engineer on the .NET team. Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is a lightweight and extensible version of the Entity Framework (EF) data access technology which is cross-platform and supports multiple database providers. You can find a comparison of EF Core vs.

There are several great resources on the Internet about using the new Configuration and Options framework of ASP.NET Core - like this comprehensive post by Rick Strahl.

Ever wonder how to become a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional? Lisa Anderson, a Microsoft community program manager (CPM) for the central region of the United States, explained what she looks for recently at That Conference 2016, a summer camp for geeks, when she sat down with Channel 9's Seth Juarez.

I needed this video of running an example app through the Desktop App Converter from start to finish and so I'm sharing it here too; For full details, go to MSDN. Feel free to borrow that video if you have a use for it at your own events etc.

It's new, shiny and all the cool kids are using it, but is Core right for you? If you're just setting out with .NET Core (as most of us are) you're starting with a lot of the landscape hidden from you. Here's a rough plan of action to help you get started.

We have now released TFS "15" RC2. We are using it in production internally. It is fully supported for production use. You can upgrade from TFS 2012 or newer to RC2. You can also upgrade the RC1 release to RC2, and you will be able to upgrade from RC2 to RTM (that should be a very fast upgrade, since there will be very few changes between RC2 and RTM).

Today we’re excited to announce the final release of TypeScript 2.0!

TL;DR - I like the CoreCLR, project.json project system, and the new dotnet CLI so far, but there are a lot of differences in API that could easily burn you when you try to port existing .Net code to the CoreCLR. As I wrote about a couple weeks ago, I've been working to port my...

I decided to prepare a simple Step by step: ASP.NET Core on Docker sample

1, 2, 3, GO! Run IIS in Docker on Windows Server 2016

PSYaml is a simple PowerShell module that I've written that allows you to serialize PowerShell objects to "YAML Ain't Markup Language" (YAML) documents and deserialize YAML documents to PowerShell objects. It uses Antoine Aubry's excellent YamlDotNet library To start, you can simply load the PowerShell file and the manifest from its home on GitHub PSYaml ...

Creating a service for unknown technology is usually painful. Sorry, "service" is an unpopular world, nowadays we call it an API. For a few years, everybody says: let's create some REST service. Cool, flexible and uneasy to consume. Exactly uneasy - it is not a mistake, uneasy is a correct word.