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 ...

Until REST APIs came along, SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) was the de facto standard protocol on which web services were based. When working in ASP.Net Core, you might well encounter the need to ...

Entire books have been written about creating and using web services in ASP.NET Core, so how does one explain such a huge topic in a single tech event presentation? You expand the session into a ...

Building an API with ASP.NET Core is only half the job. If your API is going to live more than one release cycle, you're going to need to version it. If you have other people building clients for it, ...

What is the Data Directory? There are times when sensitive information, such as database connection strings, may need to be available for a web site to use, but that you would never want a visitor to ...

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 ...