Top Issues Fixed in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2.5

• Visual Studio stops respsonding on creating a new SSIS project
• Fixed UI freezes occurring after extended usage of the editor.

Security Advisory Notices

CVE-2019-1232 Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service improperly impersonates certain file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain elevated privileges. An attacker with unprivileged access to a vulnerable system could exploit this vulnerability. The security update addresses the vulnerability by ensuring the Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service properly impersonates file operations.

CVE-2019-1301: Denial of Service Vulnerability in .NET Core

A denial of service vulnerability exists when .NET Core improperly handles web requests. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause a denial of service against a .NET Core web application. The vulnerability can be exploited remotely, without authentication.

The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the .NET Core web application handles web requests.

In response to overwhelming user requests, Microsoft has started a project to add support for a React JavaScript component to Visual Studio 2015.  

ASP.NET Core in .NET 8 is your complete solution for modern web development. It handles all of your web development needs from the frontend to the backend. You can build beautiful, richly interactive web experiences with Blazor, and high-performance backend APIs and services that are reliable and secure. ASP.NET Core in .NET 8 is perfect for building cloud-native apps, and great tooling in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code supercharges your productivity. With ASP.NET Core in .NET 8, every developer is a full stack developer! 

One of the functionalities I had to use fairly often on different ASP.NET Web API projects that I was involved in in the past was IP filtering – restricting access to the whole API, or to parts of it, based on the caller’s IP address. 

در هر دو سیستم از JWT با استفاده از روش شما پیاده سازی کردم فقط در پروژه Api دوم برای احراز هویت به APi اول مراجعه می‌کند و اگر Token معتبر بود وارد Action در APi اول می‌شود.

This is a cumulative servicing update that provides fixes to Visual Studio 2015 Update 2. These fixes address high-impact bugs that were either found by the product team or reported from the community.  

Razor Pages is a new feature of ASP.NET Core MVC that makes coding page-focused scenarios easier and more productive.

Razor Pages requires ASP.NET Core 2.0.0 or later. Tooling support for Razor Pages ships in Visual Studio 2017 Update 3 or later. 

I’ve started looking at using MediatR for my domain events implementations. To that end, I created a quick sample project using ASP.NET Core 2.0. Overall things were pretty easy to get going. If you haven’t used MediatR before, or if you’re looking for a quick intro on how to set it up for ASP.NET Core, keep reading (if not, how did you get here? Was the title not clear?). 

Big news: a new version of the NuGet clients has been released! This is version 3.3 of the client, with a new command-line and Visual Studio 2015 extension available for use. 

A simple yet organized project template for building ASP.NET Core APIs in .NET Core 3.1

Tools and Frameworks Used

• .NET Core 3.1
• ASP.NET Core - For building RESTful APIs
• Dapper - For data access.
• AutoMapper - For mapping entity models to DTOs.
• AutoWrapper - For handling request Exceptions and consistent HTTP response format.
• AutoWrapper.Server - For unwrapping the Result attribute from AutoWrapper's ApiResponse output.
• Swashbuckle.AspNetCore - For securing API documentation.
• FluentValidation.AspNetCore - For Model validations
• Serilog.AspNetCore - For logging capabilities
• IdentityServer4.AccessTokenValidation - For JWT Authentication handling
• Microsoft.Extensions.Http.Polly - For handling HttpClient Resilience and Transient fault-handling
• AspNetCoreRateLimit - For controlling the rate of requests that clients can make to an external API based on IP address or client ID.
• AspNetCore.Diagnostics.HealthChecks - For performing health checks
• Microsoft.AspNetCore.Diagnostics.HealthChecks - For getting the results of Health Checks in the application
• AspNetCore.HealthChecks.UI - For Health Status visualization
• xUnit and Moq - For unit testing.