What is FAST?

FAST is a collection of technologies built on Web Components and modern Web Standards, designed to help you efficiently tackle some of the most common challenges in website and application design and development.

What are Web Components?

"Web Components" is an umbrella term that refers to a collection of web standards focused on enabling the creation of custom HTML elements. Some of the standards that are under the umbrella include the ability to define new HTML tags, plug into a standard component lifecycle, encapsulate HTML rendering and CSS, parameterize CSS, skin components, and more. Each of these platform features is defined by the W3C and has shipped in every major browser today. 

ASP.NET Community Standup - July 7, 2020 - FAST Framework  

For decades, passwords have been the common backbone (headache) of authentication and are well known to lack in security while being frustrating and difficult to use. As we continue to see daily data breaches, the reality of moving away from weak static credentials and killing the password is upon us. Join this session to learn how FIDO2 and WebAuthn open authentication standards, in conjunction with YubiKeys, are solving the elimination of passwords at scale. Hear how organizations like Microsoft have implemented these standards for a true passwordless experience and find out how your organization can follow suit. You'll gain a greater understanding of how to achieve a modern and flexible security architecture through the use of FIDO open standards and hardware authenticators. 

A MSBuild-integrated library/tool to expose entrypoints in .NET assemblies to the platform invocation system or short PInvoke. It allows you to build .NET libraries that can be called from any development platform that supports PInvoke, including C++, C, Rust, Delphi, Python and so on... 

Top Issues Fixed in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3.1

• 16.3 - XAML designer not showing for .NET Core 3.0 apps

[ResponseCache(Duration = 60)]
public IActionResult Contact()
{
   ViewData["Message"] = "Your contact page.";
   return View();
}

 Cache-Control: public,max-age=60

[ResponseCache(Duration = 60, Location = ResponseCacheLocation.Client)]

[ResponseCache(Location = ResponseCacheLocation.None, NoStore = true)]
public IActionResult Error()
{
   return View();
}

Cache-Control: no-store,no-cache
Pragma: no-cache

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    services.AddMvc(options =>
    {
        options.CacheProfiles.Add("PrivateCache",
            new CacheProfile
            {
                Duration = 60,
                Location = ResponseCacheLocation.Client
            }); 
    });

[ResponseCache(CacheProfileName = "PrivateCache")]

{
    "dependencies": {
      //same as before
      "Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Memory": "1.0.0"
 },

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
  services.AddMemoryCache();

[Route("DNT/[controller]")]
public class AboutController : Controller
{
    private readonly IMemoryCache _memoryCache;
 
    public AboutController(IMemoryCache memoryCache)
    {
        _memoryCache = memoryCache;
    }
 
    [Route("")]
    public ActionResult Hello()
    {
 
        string cacheKey = "my-cache-key";
        string greeting;
 
        if (!_memoryCache.TryGetValue(cacheKey, out greeting))
        {
             greeting = "Hello";
            // store in the cache
            _memoryCache.Set(cacheKey, greeting,
                new MemoryCacheEntryOptions()
                .SetAbsoluteExpiration(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1)));
        }
 
        return Content($"{greeting} from DNT!");
    }

 new MemoryCacheEntryOptions()
  .SetSlidingExpiration(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(5))

 new MemoryCacheEntryOptions()
  .SetSlidingExpiration(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(5))
  .SetAbsoluteExpiration(TimeSpan.FromHours(1))

 new MemoryCacheEntryOptions()
  .SetPriority(CacheItemPriority.NeverRemove))

<cache expires-after="@TimeSpan.FromMinutes(10)">
    @Html.Partial("_WhatsNew")
    *last updated  @DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString()
</cache>

<cache expires-after="@TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5)">
    <!--View Component or something that gets data from the database-->
    *last updated  @DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString()
</cache>

<cache expires-on="@DateTime.Today.AddDays(1).AddTicks(-1)">
  <!--View Component or something that gets data from the database-->
 *last updated  @DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString()
</cache>

<cache expires-sliding="@TimeSpan.FromMinutes(5)">
    <!--View Component or something that gets data from the database-->
    *last updated  @DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString()
</cache>

<cache vary-by-user="true">
    <!--View Component or something that gets data from the database-->
    *last updated @DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString()
</cache>

<cache vary-by-route="id">
    <!--View Component or something that gets data from the database-->
    *last updated  @DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString()
</cache>

<cache vary-by-query="search">
    <!--View Component or something that gets data from the database-->
    *last updated  @DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString()
</cache>

<cache vary-by-cookie="MyAppCookie">
    <!--View Component or something that gets data from the database-->
    *last updated  @DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString()
</cache>

 <cache vary-by-header="User-Agent">
    <!--View Component or something that gets data from the database-->
    *last updated  @DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString()
</cache>

<cache vary-by="@ViewBag.ProductId">
    <!--View Component or something that gets data from the database-->
    *last updated  @DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString()
</cache>

 <cache vary-by-user="true" vary-by-route="id">
    <!--View Component or something that gets data from the database-->
    *last updated  @DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString()
</cache>

<cache expires-sliding="@TimeSpan.FromMinutes(10)"
priority="@Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Memory.CacheItemPriority.NeverRemove">
    <!--View Component or something that gets data from the database-->
    *last updated  @DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString()
</cache>

New Features

Comes with Git v2.19.0.
There are now fast, built-in versions of git stash and git rebase, available as experimental options.
The included OpenSSH client now enables modern ciphers.
The gitweb component was removed because it is highly unlikely to be used on Windows.
The git archimport tool (which was probably used by exactly 0 users) is no longer included in Git for Windows.