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Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.0

The ASP.NET team is proud to announce general availability of ASP.NET Core 2.0. This release features compatibility with .NET Core 2.0, tooling support in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3, and the new Razor Pages user-interface design paradigm.

Welcome to the New Blog Template for ASP.NET Developers

Oct 2, 2017

The ASP.NET team interns explore how to use Razor Pages features and best practices and walk through the blog template code they wrote.

ASP.NET Core 2.0 - Repository Overview: Razor Pages

Sep 29, 2017

Jack Histon explains how to use Razor Pages within ASP.NET Core 2.0, and how it fits into this existing ecosystem, in the 5th part of his ongoing series.

Build a web service with F# and .NET Core 2.0

Sep 28, 2017

Phillip Carter builds a web service with F# and .NET Core 2.0 using Giraffe and provides the source on GitHub.

A few notes on creating Class Libraries for ASP.NET Core

Sep 27, 2017

Rich Strahl shares some gotchas to watch out for when creating class libraries that depend on ASP.NET Core features.

Channel9Downloader

Sep 26, 2017

Jon Galloway shares a downloader for Channel 9 videos so they can be watched offline.

.NET Conf 2017

Sep 25, 2017

All of the videos from the .NET Conf are now available for on-demand viewing.

Entity Framework Core performance tuning – a worked example

Sep 22, 2017

Jon P Smith built an example book selling web site using EF Core version 2.0.0 then went through four stages of performance tuning.

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