dotnet

A basic understanding of HTTP is essential if you’re going to be successful when building Web APIs. In this video, we’ll quickly talk about what HTTP is, the structure of the HTTP messages, and how the protocol allows us to exchange data between systems.

🏫 Free self-guided learning for ASP.NET Core on Microsoft Learn: https://aka.ms/learn-aspnetcore

Useful Links

* RFC 2616 - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616

* ASP.NET Core documentation - https://docs.microsoft.com/aspnet/core?WT.mc_id=beginwebapis-c9-cephilli

Downloads

* Download Visual Studio Code: https://aka.ms/webapis/vscode

* Download .NET: https://aka.ms/webapis/dotnet

* Download Visual Studio 2019: https://aka.ms/webapis/visualstudio

#WebAPI #DotNet #ASPNETCore

.NET 5 brings a lot of advantages for Windows desktop developers like self-contained EXEs that can be deployed side-by-side without having to have .NET installed machine-wide. This can make your company's Clickonce deployments and installations much easier. Come see the latest features and learn how you can leverage Azure to streamline your deployment process.

Get your questions answered on the Microsoft Q&A for .NET - http://aka.ms/dotnet-qa

#DotNet

Our beginner’s guide to building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core is designed to provide you with the foundation you need to start building Web APIs with .NET in a collection of short, pragmatic collection of videos.

In this first video of the series, we’ll briefly explain what are Web APIs, why do we need them, and show some examples.

🏫 Free self-guided learning for ASP.NET Core on Microsoft Learn: https://aka.ms/learn-aspnetcore

Useful Links

* NET Videos https://dot.net/videos?WT.mc_id=beginwebapis-c9-cephilli

* ASP.NET Web APIs https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/apis?WT.mc_id=beginwebapis-c9-cephilli

* Create Web APIs with ASP.NET Core https://docs.microsoft.com/aspnet/core/web-api?WT.mc_id=beginwebapis-c9-cephilli

Downloads

* Download Visual Studio Code: https://aka.ms/webapis/vscode

* Download .NET: https://aka.ms/webapis/dotnet

* Download Visual Studio 2019: https://aka.ms/webapis/visualstudio

#WebAPI #DotNet #ASPNETCore

Running your desktop applications on ARM devices natively can significantly speed up performance for your end users. .NET 5 added support for Windows Forms on ARM and WPF on ARM is coming in .NET 6. See how you can upgrade your desktop apps to take advantage of ARM64.

Get your questions answered on the Microsoft Q&A for .NET - http://aka.ms/dotnet-qa

#DotNet

Over the least year we've made many XAML Tooling improvements for WPF, UWP, WinUI 3 and Xamarin.Forms. In this session join us for a demo packed recap of all the top features we've released such as our continuously improving XAML Hot Reload experience, enhance data binding diagnostics tooling, design-time data for XAML designer, MVVM tooling enhancements and more.

Get your questions answered on the Microsoft Q&A for .NET - http://aka.ms/dotnet-qa

#DotNet

As humans we have limitations like perception, focus, concentration, distractions you name it. With a simple mindset shift to start recognizing that there is in fact a human with a brain (with all the glory and limitations) on the other end of your solution, the experience for both the user and you will increase enormously. There are hundreds of UX-principles, laws and rules but there often isn't time or resources to study and learn all these. We will look at a few easy steps to improve your UX regardless of if you develop for desktop, web or mobile.

Get your questions answered on the Microsoft Q&A for .NET - http://aka.ms/dotnet-qa

#DotNet

ASP.NET SignalR is a technology that powers real-time communications across web, desktop and mobile platforms and is available as a turn-key Azure service. Whether you are building native WinForms, WPF or WinUI desktop apps or enabling cross-platform solutions through Blazor or .NET Multi-platform App UI, SignalR can sprinkle in real-time magic for desktop solutions. Come see the possibilities!

Get your questions answered on the Microsoft Q&A for .NET - http://aka.ms/dotnet-qa

#DotNet

ASP.NET Core applications can host background services and in this episode, Fritz talks about how to configure them and important considerations in your code. We also take a look at configuring CORS headers for ASP.NET Core services.

Questions:

00:14:10 - Any plans for the VisualStudio streams to target beginners in .NET or C#?

00:38:01 - Is IHostedService or BackgroundService the best practice?

00:45:57 - How else could you use a CancellationToken other than in a `while` loop condition?

01:20:37 - Are all get requests for initial load of pages cross origin?

01:21:47 - Wouldn't the client side be able to spoof that Origin header?

Background Music is Harris Heller's Streambeats - Lo-Fi playlist, available royalty free at https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4kAqBBEZQsBIXMIJl6u8tO?si=4ovPEoUTQuKNRY_qKopDbQ

Source code and interactive content from the stream are available at: https://github.com/csharpfritz/csharp_with_csharpfritz

Watch live Mondays at 1400 UTC / 9a ET / 6a PT at: https://twitch.tv/visualstudio

#DotNet

Visual Basic has full language support on .NET Core and in .NET 5 we've enabled even more features for Windows desktop developers. Come take a look at some of the new things you can do.

Get your questions answered on the Microsoft Q&A for .NET - http://aka.ms/dotnet-qa

#DotNet

Desktop apps can take advantage of .NET Core 3.1 and .NET 5 which provides better performance, deployment flexibility and new language innovations. The first step is getting there. Come see why and how you can take your Windows apps forward and upgrade them quickly with a new tool we're working on.

Get your questions answered on the Microsoft Q&A for .NET - http://aka.ms/dotnet-qa

#DotNet