First off, let’s create an ASP.NET Core project in Visual Studio. Assuming Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio 2019 is installed in your system, follow the steps outlined below to create a new ASP.NET ...

API Analyzers, introduced with ASP.NET Core 2.2, enable you to follow a set of conventions to improve the documentation of the APIs of your ASP.NET Core applications. API Analyzers work with any ...

Today's applications require monitoring, logging, configuration, etc. Each of these concerns can be implemented as a ...

To start my series on ASP.NET Core security, I'll show how to set up authentication to register, log in and log out a user account in an ASP.NET Core MVC application. To get started, open Visual ...

Microsoft released an emergency patch for its ASP.NET Core to fix a high-severity vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges on devices that use the Web development ...

One of the highlights of improved ASP.NET Core functionality in .NET 6 was support of minimal APIs, for which work is still ongoing in the new .NET 7 Preview 3. Minimal APIs are architected to create ...

The Data Protection API secures critical elements such as auth cookies, session state, and OIDC state across ASP.NET Core applications. Exploitation could let attackers assume privileged identities ...

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 ...