.NET 5 Preview 7 is now available and is ready for evaluation. Here’s what’s new in this release:

• Blazor WebAssembly apps now target .NET 5
• Updated debugging requirements for Blazor WebAssembly
• Blazor accessibility improvements
• Blazor performance improvements
• Certificate authentication performance improvements
• Sending HTTP/2 PING frames
• Support for additional endpoints types in the Kestrel sockets transport
• Custom header decoding in Kestrel
• Other minor improvements 

Create your unique artistic spectacular gallery for your photos with variety of beautiful animated hover effects, using templates and examples, color schemes, svg and canvas photo filters and other tools!

• integrated support for canvas and svg filters
• perfect for mobile devices
• simple templating tools
• built-in lightbox with retina support
• 2 retina modes
• memory saving algorithm
• works either with json or html formats (custom parsers) 

 PM> Install-Package Microsoft.AspNetCore.ResponseCompression

{
    "dependencies": {
        "Microsoft.AspNetCore.ResponseCompression": "1.0.0"
    }
}

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    services.AddResponseCompression(options =>
    {
        options.MimeTypes = Microsoft.AspNetCore.ResponseCompression.ResponseCompressionDefaults.MimeTypes;
    });
}

namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.ResponseCompression
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Defaults for the ResponseCompressionMiddleware
    /// </summary>
    public class ResponseCompressionDefaults
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Default MIME types to compress responses for.
        /// </summary>
        // This list is not intended to be exhaustive, it's a baseline for the 90% case.
        public static readonly IEnumerable<string> MimeTypes = new[]
        {
            // General
            "text/plain",
            // Static files
            "text/css",
            "application/javascript",
            // MVC
            "text/html",
            "application/xml",
            "text/xml",
            "application/json",
            "text/json",
        };
    }
}

services.AddResponseCompression(options =>
{
    options.MimeTypes = ResponseCompressionDefaults.MimeTypes.Concat(new[]
                                {
                                    "image/svg+xml",
                                    "application/font-woff2"
                                });
            });

services.AddResponseCompression(options =>
{
  //If no compression providers are specified then GZip is used by default.
  //options.Providers.Add<GzipCompressionProvider>();

services.Configure<GzipCompressionProviderOptions>(options =>
{
  options.Level = System.IO.Compression.CompressionLevel.Optimal;
});

 options.EnableForHttps = true;

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)
{
   app.UseResponseCompression()  // Adds the response compression to the request pipeline
   .UseStaticFiles(); // Adds the static middleware to the request pipeline  
}

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app,
                      IHostingEnvironment env,
                      ILoggerFactory loggerFactory)
{
    app.UseResponseCompression()
       .UseStaticFiles(
           new StaticFileOptions
           {
               OnPrepareResponse =
                   _ => _.Context.Response.Headers[HeaderNames.CacheControl] = 
                        "public,max-age=604800" // A week in seconds
           })
       .UseMvc(routes => routes.MapRoute("default", "{controller=Home}/{action=Index}/{id?}"));
}

 PM> Install-Package Microsoft.AspNetCore.Rewrite

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)
{
    app.UseRewriter(new RewriteOptions()
                            .AddRedirectToHttps()
                            .AddRewrite(@"app/(\d+)", "app?id=$1", skipRemainingRules: false) // Rewrite based on a Regular expression
                            //.AddRedirectToHttps(302, 5001) // Redirect to a different port and use HTTPS
                            .AddRedirect("(.*)/$", "$1")  // remove trailing slash, Redirect using a regular expression
                            .AddRedirect(@"^section1/(.*)", "new/$1", (int)HttpStatusCode.Redirect)
                            .AddRedirect(@"^section2/(\\d+)/(.*)", "new/$1/$2", (int)HttpStatusCode.MovedPermanently)
                            .AddRewrite("^feed$", "/?format=rss", skipRemainingRules: false));

 app.UseRewriter(new RewriteOptions()
.AddIISUrlRewrite(env.ContentRootFileProvider, "web.config")
.AddApacheModRewrite(env.ContentRootFileProvider, ".htaccess"));

public class RedirectWwwRule : Microsoft.AspNetCore.Rewrite.IRule
{
    public int StatusCode { get; } = (int)HttpStatusCode.MovedPermanently;
    public bool ExcludeLocalhost { get; set; } = true;
    public void ApplyRule(RewriteContext context)
    {
        var request = context.HttpContext.Request;
        var host = request.Host;
        if (host.Host.StartsWith("www", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        {
            context.Result = RuleResult.ContinueRules;
            return;
        }
        if (ExcludeLocalhost && string.Equals(host.Host, "localhost", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        {
            context.Result = RuleResult.ContinueRules;
            return;
        }
        string newPath = request.Scheme + "://www." + host.Value + request.PathBase + request.Path + request.QueryString;
 
        var response = context.HttpContext.Response;
        response.StatusCode = StatusCode;
        response.Headers[HeaderNames.Location] = newPath;
        context.Result = RuleResult.EndResponse; // Do not continue processing the request
    }
}

 app.UseRewriter(new RewriteOptions().Add(new RedirectWwwRule()));

 var options = new RewriteOptions().Add(app.ApplicationServices.GetService<RedirectWwwRule>());

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