all the Little Wonders and Little Pitfalls posts and presentations so that they would be readily visible for anyone new to these series. 

In this post, we are going to write about what we consider to be the best practices while developing the .NET Core Web API project. How we can make it better and how to make it more maintainable.

We are going to go through the following sections:

• Startup Class and the Service Configuration
• Project Organization
• Environment Based Settings
• Data Access Layer
• Controllers
• Actions
• Microsoft.AspNetCore.All Meta-Package
• Routing
• Logging
• CryptoHelper
• Content Negotiation
• Using JWT
• Conclusion  

We have released new versions of JWT.io and the JWT Debugger extension, learn what's new. 

Internet Information Services (IIS) 10.0 Express is a free, simple and self-contained version of IIS that is optimized for developers. IIS 10.0 Express makes it easy to use the most current version of IIS to develop and test websites. IIS 10.0 Express has all the core capabilities of IIS 10.0 and additional features to ease website development.

The benefits of using IIS 10.0 Express include:

• The same web server that runs on your production server is now available on your development computer.
• Most tasks can be done without the need for administrative privileges.
• IIS Express runs on Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and all later versions of Windows.
• Many users can work independently on the same computer. 

Immerse yourself in the world of .NET and join our live stream for 3 days of free online content June 7 - 9 featuring speakers from the .NET Community and Microsoft product teams.

Learn to develop for web, mobile, desktop, games, services, libraries and more for a variety of platforms and devices all with .NET! We'll have presentations on .NET Core and ASP.NET Core, C#, F#, Roslyn, Visual Studio, Universal Windows Platform (UWP), Xamarin, and much more. 

Here’s what’s new in this release:

• Azure Active Directory authentication with Microsoft.Identity.Web
• CSS isolation for Blazor components
• Lazy loading in Blazor WebAssembly
• Updated Blazor WebAssembly globalization support
• New InputRadio Blazor component
• Set UI focus in Blazor apps
• Influencing the HTML head in Blazor apps
• IAsyncDisposable for Blazor components
• Control Blazor component instantiation
• Protected browser storage
• Model binding and validation with C# 9 record types
• Improvements to DynamicRouteValueTransformer 
• Auto refresh with dotnet watch 
• Console Logger Formatter
• JSON Console Logger 

A few years ago, we took over maintenance and guidance for the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit project. Please refer to this blog post for more information on the project and why we stepped in to assist.
As part of our ongoing commitment to the project, we’ve released an update (ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit v19.1.0) to address the following issues.
Improvements
- Visual Studio 2019 Support
- Security hardening: HTML-encode file names in AjaxFileUpload (#483)
 

WebGL is an in-browser 3D renderer based on OpenGL, which lets you display your 3D content directly into an HTML5 page. Throughout this series I will cover all the essentials you need to get started using this framework. We'll start with an introduction, then we'll be building on to the framework that we used in part one as well as adding a model importer and a custom class for 3D objects. You will also be introduced to animation and controls. Lastly, we’ll take a look at lighting and adding 2D objects to your scene. 

Learn how to create a Blazor WebAssembly ASP.NET Core hosted web application and create, read, update and delete entities with the HTTP request methods GET, POST, PUT and DELETE using a Web API in .NET 5.