Web services are the next step in building distributed, modularized applications. They allow you to take some of your business logic, compartmentalize it in a component, and execute the functionality ...

Credit: Victoire Joncheray modified by IDG Comm. Docker containers are used to provide a lightweight and more portable alternative to virtual machines. Unlike virtual machines, which must bundle a ...

The services that comprise distributed applications must communicate with one another to exchange data or information. You need a common data format for these communications, which narrows the options ...

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Today is a big release day for Microsoft dev tools, with the final versions of .NET Core 2.0, Visual Studio 2017 15.3 and Visual Studio for Mac 7.1 all arriving together. .NET Core 2.0 is described by ...

Microsoft is rebranding the products formerly known as ASP.NET 5 and .NET Core 5. Going forward, ASP.NET 5 will be known as ASP.NET Core 1.0, and .NET Core 5 will be renamed to .NET Core 1.0. Entity ...

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None of the .NET-based GUI frameworks presented so far in this series can be used in a web browser. When asked what Microsoft offers for browser applications, one could now give a general answer with ...

Understand the key advantages of Razor Pages in ASP.NET Core for building real-world web applications Learn how features like dependency injection, configuration, and environment awareness improve ...