Microsoft is focusing on long-term stability and more flexible developer tooling with its new “AI-native” Visual Studio 2026 IDE and .NET 10. These new releases are aimed at two main business goals: ...

Earlier this week, Microsoft patched a vulnerability that was flagged with the "highest ever" severity rating received by an ASP.NET Core security flaw. This HTTP request smuggling bug (CVE-2025-55315 ...

The Kestrel web server flaw allows request smuggling attacks, but the actual risk depends on the application code and deployment. Microsoft has patched a critical vulnerability in ASP.NET Core that ...

Microsoft announced the first release candidate of .NET 10 is now available with go-live support--ready for production apps. The company said this update brings enhancements across ASP.NET Core, ...

ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. We’ve discussed minimal APIs in several earlier posts here.

If you've been following the .NET coverage on this site from just the past month -- for instance, ".NET 10 Preview 3 Adds Native Container Publishing, ".NET 10 Preview 4 Focuses on ASP.NET Core, ...

User context makes life easier when tracing Http requests in ASP.NET Core applications. It’s easy to add with custom middleware. When working with web applications, you will often want to keep watch ...

The application is used as an identity provider. This can be used for local users or for external users using OpenID Connect federation. All applications using the application are separated from the ...

At its core, identity marketing is not about your brand—it’s about your consumer. It’s about understanding how your audience sees themselves and aligning your brand with their identity and aspirations ...

A demo to implement phone (SMS) verification and two-factor authentication (2FA) using ASP.NET Core Identity. The solution integrates phone-based verification and 2FA mechanisms. The implementation ...