Andrew Lock | .NET Escapades

Andrew Lock
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  1. The Microsoft.AspNetCore.All metapackage is huge, and that's awesome, thanks to the .NET Core runtime store

    In the ASP.NET Core 2.0 preview 1 release, Microsoft have released a new metapackage called Microsoft.AspNetCore.All. This package consists of every single package shipped by Microsoft as part of ASP.NET Core 2.0, including all the Razor packages, MVC packages, Entity Framework Core packages, everything!…
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  2. Creating a basic Web API template using dotnet new custom templates

    In my last post, I showed a simple, stripped-down version of the Web API template with the Razor dependencies removed. As an excuse to play with the new CLI templating functionality, I decided to turn this template into a dotnet new template. For details on this new capability, check out…
    on .NET CLI ASP.NET Core NuGet - Comments

  3. What is the NETStandard.Library metapackage?

    In my last post, I took a quick look at the Microsoft.AspNetCore meta package. One of the libraries referenced by the package, is the NETStandard.Library NuGet package. In this post I take a quick look at this package and what it contains. If you're reading this post, you…
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  4. What is the Microsoft.AspNetCore metapackage?

    One of the packages added to many ASP.NET Core templates is Microsoft.AspNetCore. This post takes a quick look at that package and what it contains. The Microsoft.AspNetCore package is often included as one of the standard project dependencies when starting a new ASP.NET Core project. It…
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  5. Supporting both LTS and Current releases for ASP.NET Core

    Some time ago, I wrote a post on how to use custom middleware to set various security headers in an ASP.NET Core application. This formed the basis for a small package on GitHub and NuGet that does just that, it adds standard headers to your responses like X-Frame-Options and…
    on ASP.NET Core .NET Core Versioning NuGet - Comments

  6. Understanding and updating package versions for .NET Core 1.0.3

    Microsoft introduced the second update to their Long Term Support (LTS) version of .NET Core on 13th December, 3 months after releasing the first update to the platform. This included updates to .NET Core, ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core, and takes the overall version number to 1.0.…
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