ASP.NET Weekly - Issue #14

Tomasz Pęczek shows how you can use the Content-Encoding header to prevent IIS from compressing responses sent from your ASP.NET Core application.

Damian Bowden shows how to implement a custom ASP.NET Core policy using the AuthorizationHandler class. The handler validates that the identity from the HttpContext has the authorization to update the object in the database.

Rick Strahl has an in-depth look at the state of .NET Core 2.0 and ASP.NET Core 2.0. He thinks the new features and improvements in the framework finally provide enough of a surface to make it realistic to jump in.

Node Services for ASP.NET Core allow applications to execute Node scripts on the server. Gunnar shows how you can utilise the capability to render charts with the JavaScript-based D3.js library.

Hisham shows how you can upload files in your ASP.NET Razor Pages application.

ASP.NET Core in Action gets developers without any web experience building web apps with ASP.NET Core. You’ll learn about middleware, MVC, dependency injection, and everything you need to build cross-platform applications.

Entity Framework Core in Action teaches developers how to use EF Core to access databases. Part one covers the basics of using EF Core, part 2 is an in-depth reference section, and part 3 covers real-world issues such as database migrations and performance tuning.