ASP.NET Web API is a solid communications framework, and many applications can benefit from breaking free of IIS by including an embedded ASP.NET Web API server. In 2011, Microsoft released ASP.NET ...

ependency injection is a technique whereby one object (the dependency) is passed to another object that needs it. Dependency Injection is a realization of the inversion of control principle, which ...

Microsoft's new .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Standard 2.0 offerings may be generating the most buzz among .NET developers these days, but for many use cases the traditional .NET Framework is still the best ...

The plugin framework is a NuGet package that allows you to customise and extend a .NET application Plugins are loaded at runtime from a catalogue which can be a local source or via NuGet. Supports all ...

At Build 2019 Microsoft unveiled its plans for the future of .NET, announcing that the next major release after .NET Core 3 would be a single version of .NET called .NET 5. Building on the rapid ...

The .NET framework allows cross-platform development on Windows and Mac, and Microsoft released version 8 for both in November. Here's what that means to developers. In the late 1990s, Microsoft began ...