Blazor is full of promise, and Matthew MacDonald penned this succinct analysis of Blazor Desktop, comparing it to Electron (a JavaScript wrapper for desktop apps) for .NET. 

• New responsive containers! Over a year in the making, fluid up to a particular breakpoint, available for all responsive tiers.
• New responsive .row-cols classes for quickly specifying the number of columns across breakpoints. This one is huge for those of you who have asked for responsive card decks. 

Here’s a summary of what’s new in this preview release:

Servers & middleware
  Antiforgery middleware
API authoring
  Antiforgery integration for minimal APIs
Native AOT
  Request Delegate Generator supports interceptors feature
  Full TrimMode is used for web projects compiled with trimming enabled
  WebApplication.CreateEmptyBuilder
Blazor
  Antiforgery integration
  Server-side form handling improvements
  Auto render mode
  Register root-level cascading values
  Improved integration of interactive components with server-side rendering
  New EmptyContent parameter for Virtualize
Identity
  New bearer token authentication handler
  New API endpoints
Single page apps (SPA)
  New Visual Studio templates
 

ASP.NET Core InProcess Hosting on IIS with ASP.NET Core 2.2 

We developers spend lot of our time reading code. We read code so that we know how to change it to implement a new feature, fix a bug, etc. It is much better to work in a code base where code is easy to read and understand.

One thing that can make code readable is good naming. Giving variables, classes, and methods good names makes code easier to read. 

EtwProfiler is the new diagnoser for BenchmarkDotNet that I have just finished. It’s going to be released as part of 0.11.2. Soon! It allows to profile the benchmarked .NET code on Windows and exports the data to a trace file which can be opened with PerfView or Windows Performance Analyzer. 

Our latest Bootstrap Icons release includes dozens of new icons, redesigned documentation, and the most highly requested new feature—icon fonts! 

Today we are excited to announce the general availability of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, a new no-cost distribution of OpenJDK that is open source and available for free for anyone to deploy anywhere.  

When you build ASP.NET Core applications and you plan on running your applications on IIS you'll find that the way that Core applications work in IIS is radically different than in previous versions of ASP.NET. 

Web servers are the technical vaults of our information online, and it's important to know how to best protect them. Read on and follow these seven security tips to see how to properly safeguard your server.