64 bit ASP.NET Core on Azure App Service

When creating an Azure App Service .NET Core is already pre-installed. However, only the 32 bit .NET runtime is installed. In this post we will look at a few ways that you can get a 64 bit runtime on Azure App Service

.NET Core 2.0 support for App Service on Linux

We announced the general availability of Azure App Service on Linux and Web App for Containers in September 2017. Today, we’re adding additional language runtime support for built-in images. You can now create a Linux web app by using .NET Core 2.0 as a runtime stack.

Zero Garbage Collector for .NET Core 2.1 and ASP.NET Core 2.1 – TooSlowException

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ASP Net Core with Dapper - Part 2

In this video I will be using Dapper with ASP.Net Core Web API to Create, Delete and Update records into SQL Server. Dapper is a micro ORM, very fast and rel...

C# 7.2: Understanding Span

Span is a new language feature that significantly improves performance. Learn about Span and how you can benefit from improvements we've made up and down the stack. Learn how to use Span in your own c

Stacktrace improvements in .NET Core 2.1

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Visual Studio 2017 15.5 Release Notes

Release notes for the latest features and improvements in Visual Studio 2017. Plan better, code together and ship faster with Visual Studio.

How to use AutoMapper in ASP.NET CORE

In this video , I am going to show, How to map your model with View Model in ASP.NET CORE. Also , you do vise versa. When always i use View Model in View sec...

Creating a Github Webhook with ASP.NET Core and AWS Lambda • Jerrie Pelser

Amazon recently announced support for .NET Core 2.0 on AWS Lambda. In this blog post, I will look at how we can use ASP.NET Core 2.0 to create a GitHub webhook using AWS Lambda and AWS API Gateway. Before we start, ensure that you have the latest version of the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio installed.

Linux Foundation Shares Some Love Back For Microsoft Azure

Nobody quite expected the strategists at Redmond to come forward with a direct and open 'Microsoft Loves Linux' statement, but they did and it was stated and it's now officially 'a thing' that all the tech industry has become accustomed to. Microsoft obviously had a reason for embracing Linux and getting ...

How to Deploy .NET Code to AWS from Within Visual Studio

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ Learning Objectives: - Learn how to use the AWS Plug-in for Visual Studio to deploy .NET code to AWS directly from Visual Studio ...

Sitecore announces Experience Commerce 9, with new ASP .NET Core 2 architecture - MSDynamicsWorld.com

Sitecore is rolling out Experience Commerce 9, a release that introduces a new commerce engine built using Microsoft’s ASP .NET Core 2 technology.

C# in 2017 - The State of Developer Ecosystem by JetBrains

Over 500 developers share their insights on modern C# programming. Keep up with the most relevant technologies and frameworks in this infographic!

PowerShell vs. PowerShell Core, what you need to know - gHacks Tech News

PowerShell Core is a new version of PowerShell, a command-line shell and scripting language that ships with Microsoft Windows.

Microsoft Annouces General Availability of PowerShell Core 6.0

Microsoft has announced the general availability of PowerShell Core 6.0, a new edition of PowerShell. Version 6.0 supports various platforms (Windows, macOS, and Linux), is open-sourced, and built for heterogeneous environments and the hybrid cloud.

.Net Core: What To Expect Next

.NET Core 2.0 was made publicly available in 2017. Besides .NET Core, .NET Standard 2.0 was released, the standard to which .NET Core 2.0 complies, as well a...

Cross-Platform Desktop .NET UI with Avalonia

Cross-platform .NET is all the rage now. You can do console apps in C# and F#, web with ASP.NET Core, mobile with Xamarin. But can you do desktop UI apps?

Serverless ASP.NET Core 2.0 Applications | Amazon Web Services

In our previous post, we announced the release of the .NET Core 2.0 AWS Lambda runtime and new versions of our .NET tooling to help you develop .NET Core 2.0-based serverless applications. Also, with the new .NET Core 2.0 Lambda runtime, we’ve released our ASP.NET Core NuGet Package, Amazon.Lambda.AspNetCoreServer, for general availability. Version 2.0.0 of […]

AWS Lambda Supports C# (.NET Core 2.0)

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Bulletproof Disposable Types In .NET Core

Whenever I do code review on .NET projects, hands down the number one issue is developers not calling .Dispose() on disposable objects. Ever since .NET was released, I have been preaching how important this is. If not done properly, it’s most likely to create virtual memory issues that will eventually cause the application to stop and possibly freeze server or users’ computer.

Benchmarking Your .NET Core Code With BenchmarkDotNet

Benchmarking your code can take on many forms. On some level Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solutions such as New Relic can sometimes be considered live benchmarking tools if you are using A/B testing. All the way down to wrapping a stopwatch object around your code and running it inside a loop. This article will be looking more towards the latter. Benchmarking specific lines of code either against each other or on it’s own to get performance metrics can be extremely important in understanding how your code will run at scale.

Podcast: Android 8.1, Xamarin Device Manager, and Visual Studio versions 15.5 & 15.6

In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, James Montemagno and I cover Android 8.1, the new Xamarin Device Manager Preview, what’s new for mobile developers in Visual Studio versions 15.5/15.6, and share our favorite Xamarin moments from 2017. Be sure to download today’s episode from your favorite podcast app. Subscribe or Download Today Keeping up …

8 practical tips for learning ASP.NET Core MVC

You want to build applications using ASP.NET Core MVC ASP.NET Core 2.0 has landed and every blog post, newsletter and Microsoft article seems to be talking about it. Now seems like a good time to learn ASP.NET Core and you want/need to be able to build real business applications with it. So you follow a few tutorials, spin up a new project and get coding, but then you grind to a halt.

ASP.NET Core 2.0: Exploring Application Startup

In this video we'll explore how an ASP.NET Core 2.0 web application starts up by looking at the initial entry point and creation of a WebHost in Program.cs. ...

.NET Core January 2018 Update - January 9, 2018

Microsoft is releasing security advisories for .NET Core and ASP.NET Core. Issues addressed by this update are summarized in the fixes section below. Details can be found in corresponding announcements in the .NET Core and ASP.NET Core repos. .NET Core 2.0.5 and SDK 2.1.4 are available for download and usage in your environment.

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