Microsoft .NET

6 security best practices for ASP.NET Core

Learn the best practices and built-in safeguards for preventing attacks and protecting sensitive data in your ASP.NET Core web applications.

Microsoft adds WinUI support to MSTest

Code analyzers for Roslyn also have been enhanced with new rules in latest upgrade to the testing framework for .NET.

How to implement identity authentication in minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core

Take advantage of improved identity management in ASP.NET Core to implement identity-based authentication for minimal APIs quickly, easily, and with less code.

.NET Aspire cloud development stack launches

Microsoft's new cloud-ready stack for building distributed applications unites tools, templates, and NuGet packages and includes an App Host for orchestration within the app model.

C# 13 enhances params, introduces extension types

Forthcoming update to the C# language extends params parameter support and introduces a new type that supplies extension members for an underlying type.

How to work with Dapper and SQLite in ASP.NET Core

Build an authentication handler for a minimal API in ASP.NET Core

How to implement basic password authentication for a minimal API in ASP.NET Core using a custom authentication handler that validates the user’s credentials against a database.

OpenSilver 2.2 shines on LightSwitch

LightSwitch Compatibility Pack enables legacy Visual Studio LightSwitch applications to run in modern browsers.

.NET MAUI Community Toolkit adds TouchBehavior support

TouchBehavior provides the ability to interact with visual elements in .NET apps based on touch, mouse clicks, and hover events.

How to use the new minimal API features in ASP.NET Core 8

Parameter binding from forms, antiforgery tokens, and Native AOT are now supported in ASP.NET Core. Here’s how to take advantage of them.