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The Microsoft.AspNetCore.All metapackage is huge, and that's awesome, thanks to the .NET Core runtime store
The ASP.NET Core 2.0 preview 1 metapackage, Microsoft.AspNetCore.All, includes every package released as part of ASP.NET Core. This post looks at why.…

Creating a basic Web API template using dotnet new custom templates
This post introduces the basicwebapi template, a .NET CLI template based on the Web API template with Razor removed that I described in my previous post.…
What is the NETStandard.Library metapackage?
In my last post I looked at the Microsoft.AspNetCore metapackage. In this post I take a look at NetStandard.Library, what it contains and what it is for.…

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.…

Supporting both LTS and Current releases for ASP.NET Core
In this post I discuss approaches to supporting both the current and LTS tracks of .NET Core as a library author.…

Understanding and updating package versions for .NET Core 1.0.3
In this post I take a look at how platform versioning works in ASP.NET Core, and list the packages that have been updated in the latest 1.0.3 release.…

