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 ...

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A publicly accessible configuration file for ASP.NET Core applications has been leaking credentials for Azure ActiveDirectory (AD), potentially allowing cyberattackers to authenticate directly via ...

If you're eager to dive into a practical example of using Ardalis.ApiEndpoints, check out our Getting Started guide. This guide walks you through setting up your environment and creating your first ...

HybridCache is a new API in .NET 9 that brings additional features, benefits, and ease to caching in ASP.NET Core. Here’s how to take advantage of it. Caching is a proven strategy for improving ...

Since its inception as an intriguing experiment in leveraging WebAssembly to enable dynamic web development with C#, Blazor has evolved into a mature, fully featured framework. Integral to the ASP.NET ...

Microsoft today announced the general availability of the open source Data API builder (DAB), which provides REST and GraphQL endpoints for Azure databases, some three years in the making. The ...

Take advantage of authentication and authorization, API keys, rate limiting, CORS, API versioning, and other recommended practices to build secure and robust APIs in ASP.NET Core. Because our APIs ...

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.Net Core is a free and open-source framework from Microsoft. The beauty of .Net Core is that it is cross-platform and you can run it on Windows, Linux, or MAC. So you can develop your web API on your ...