News
Announcing the ongoing Bug Bounty for .NET Core and ASP.NET Core
Microsoft has announced a Bug Bounty for .NET Core and ASP.NET Core. The bounty includes both the Windows and Linux versions of .NET Core and ASP.NET Core, and includes Kestrel, our new web server. It encompasses the current release version, and the latest supported beta, or release candidate of any future versions.
New Leadership for IronPython
Leadership of the community run IronPython project has been passed to Alex Earl and Benedikt Eggers. Jeff Hardy, the previous leader, has been running the project since Microsoft ceased active involvement in 2010.
Process
17 New Extensions for Visual Studio 2015
Visual Studio Magazine highlights 17 new extensions for Visual Studio. They include everything from Project Templates to Code Tools.
Publishing an ASP.NET Core website to a cheap Linux VM host
Scott Hanselman shows how easy it is to start up a new ASP.NET Core site on an inexpensive Linux host.
Visual Studio's most useful (and underused) tips
There's a lot of little tricks in Visual Studio that even the most seasoned developers sometimes miss.
Wire – Writing one of the fastest .NET serializers
Lessons learned writing one of the fastest .NET serializers out there.
Code
You're using HttpClient wrong and it is destabilizing your software
Simon Timms warns us about a common mistake using HttpClient and how we can use it better as a static object.
Security
Secure Your ASP.NET Core Application From Image Hotlinking
Hisham shows us how to prevent hotlinking in ASP.NET Core.
Website enumeration insanity: how our personal data is leaked
Troy Hunt demonstrates some of the most vulnerable sites in the wild as a demonstration of how enumeration attacks may be abused.