Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) security updates to patch a critical ASP.NET Core privilege escalation vulnerability. The security flaw (tracked as CVE-2026-40372) was found in the ASP.NET ...

In the past, the software was a monolith that was built. There is a single gigantic entity of code that is all tightly coupled and cannot be scaled without making your infrastructure team restless.

The first section is simple and straight-forward, just enough to get going. Refer to the TLDR section for more information. The SQL Server provider. Pulls in the core EF packages ...

Earlier this week, Microsoft patched a vulnerability that was flagged with the "highest ever" severity rating received by an ASP.NET Core security flaw. This HTTP request smuggling bug (CVE-2025-55315 ...

ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. We’ve discussed minimal APIs in several earlier posts here.

When working with minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core, you can define routes for the HTTP verbs using mapping methods such as MapGet, MapPut, MapPost, and MapDelete. While these methods allow you to route ...

Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed, cloud-native ...

To implement custom Authentication and Authorization in an ASP.NET Core MVC + Web API using .NET 9.0, you'll need to follow several steps. This example will demonstrate how to create a simple custom ...

Building an API with ASP.NET Core is only half the job. If your API is going to live more than one release cycle, you're going to need to version it. If you have other people building clients for it, ...

If you have experience building APIs, you know it’s a lengthy process. Thankfully, Copilot can help with some of the heavy lifting that comes with API creation. From the initial design to writing ...