Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) security updates to patch a critical ASP.NET Core privilege escalation vulnerability. The security flaw (tracked as CVE-2026-40372) was found in the ASP.NET ...

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 ...

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In modern web applications, there are scenarios where you need to determine which database to connect to at runtime rather than at compile time. This could be for multi-tenant applications, ...

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 ...

In 1996, I registered my first website, Vaughan-Nichols & Associates. After setting up the site, one of the first things I did was to secure connections with a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate.

OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) is a globally recognized organization that provides essential guidelines, tools, and best practices for securing web applications. Its mission is to help ...

Take advantage of connection resiliency in EF Core to detect errors and retry commands and enable your ASP.NET Core application to overcome transient faults. A high-quality application must be stable, ...

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In the new .NET 8 Preview 3, Microsoft introduced initial support for native Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation in the framework's web-dev component, ASP.NET Core. While choosing the AOT publishing ...

As more and more people's lives move online, securing your digital fortress cannot be overstated. The most crucial component of this cyber defense is Wi-Fi network encryption — a seemingly simple, yet ...

With ASP.NET Core 7, we can take advantage of the newly introduced IEndpointFilter interface to create filters and attach them to the endpoints in our minimal APIs. These filters can be used to modify ...