Visual Studio Magazine

Q&A: ASP.NET Core Beyond the Basics

There are a lot of "getting started" talks about ASP.NET Core out there, but they won't take you very far in the real world. What if you already know what the Startup class does, how configuration is ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Firm Automates Converting Visual Basic Apps to .NET Core

Mobilize.Net, an "automated modernization" specialist headed by a former Microsoft corporate VP, has upgraded its Visual Basic upgrade tool to target .NET Core, the open source, cross-platform ...
ZDNet

Microsoft: We won't evolve Visual Basic programming language but we'll open it to .NET 5

Microsoft has revealed it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5 but also that it has no plans to evolve the language. As Microsoft's .NET team notes, Visual Basic on .NET Core only supported Class ...
InfoWorld

6 state management techniques for ASP.NET Core MVC

You have a number of different ways to store and retrieve data between requests in ASP.NET Core MVC applications. Here’s how to take advantage of them. Because HTTP is a stateless protocol, state ...
InfoWorld

How to use EF Core as an in-memory database in ASP.NET Core 6

Entity Framework Core allows you to store and retrieve data to and from an in-memory database. It’s a quick and easy way to test your ASP.NET Core 6 web applications. There are many reasons why you ...