Security is one of the most important aspects of any application – and when we talk about security, particularly in ASP.NET applications, it is not limited to development. A secure app involves multiple layers of security in the configuration, framework, web server, database server, and more. In this post, we’ll take a look at the top nine tips for writing secure applications in ASP.NET. 

C# vNext Features with Status
This page contains the list of features the C# team is currently working on and their progress status.
When a feature status is "Merged" this means that the work to implement the feature is complete and available in the next preview version. 

This list was originally a clone of stackoverflow - List of Freely Available Programming Books by George Stocker.

The list was moved to GitHub by Victor Felder for collaborative updating and maintenance. It grew to become one of the most popular repositories on Github, with over 80,000 stars, over 4000 commits, over 800 contributors, and over 20,000 forks. 

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. 

Learn how to use the ClosedXML NuGet package to export data as a CSV or XLSX file for Excel from an ASP.NET Core application 

Head over to vscode.dev to run Visual Studio Code for the Web (Preview). No installation necessary, and it works most anywhere (even on your tablet). Use extensions, access GitHub repositories, and work with notebooks. Get details and find out how to get started. 

the main goal of this release is to facilitate migrating existing applications that use EF 6 to .NET Core 3.0 

Full Stack ASP.NET Core 2.0 MVC Forum Build

Topics Covered:
- Setting up a new ASP .NET Core 2.0 MVC web application with Identity user authentication in Visual Studio
- Separating Web, Services, and Data Access Layers in our solution
- Setting up tests with NUnit and .NET Core virtual in-memory database
- Debugging / Fixing bugs
- Implementing the MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern
- Dependency Injection of Services into our Controllers
- Using input forms to pass data from our Views to our Controllers
- Azure file storage for Profile Image uploads
- Azure SQL database hosting
- SQL Database seeding for starting the application with a super-user
- Code-first database migrations
- Writing SQL queries to inspect data in our database
- Deploying the application to Azure.
 

Perhaps you’ve seen the term REST being thrown around lately and have been a little curious what it’s all about. If that’s the case, or you know a little about it but never used it, this article is for you. Today I’m going to give a small overview of what REST services are, and why it’s awesome.