When you publish a .NET Core project, you can choose between two deployment modes: Framework-Dependent and Self-Contained.

Framework-Dependent deployments are the default and were previously your only choice on .NET Framework. However, .NET Core has added the option of Self-Contained deployments to .NET projects including ASP.NET Core projects.

In this post, I explain the …

I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to setup and install ASP.NET Core 2.1 on Linux. I did it for the first time in 15 minutes with no previous experience with .NET Core on Linux. I did it the second time, in production, in 5 minutes by following these instructions.

In this article, I show you how to install the .NET Core runtime on CentOS, how to get a sample ASP.NET Core …

If you've recently started a new ASP.NET Core 2.1 project, or upgraded an existing project, and your username contains a space, you may find your builds and compilation is very slow. This post explains how to dramatically speed things up.

Razor has received some new features in ASP.NET Core 2.1. The big one is that you can now create Razor class libraries that let you use Razor to …

When deploying an ASP.NET Core application to IIS, you may find IIS returning HTTP Error 502.5 instead of your web page.

I recently hit this problem after manually modifying the web.config file. Fortunately, the problem is easy to fix.

In this post, we see two different causes of this error, two different solutions for the first cause, a solution for the second …

ASP.NET Core 2.0 was released alongside Visual Studio 2017.3 and is ready for use, but its relationship with prior frameworks is often misunderstood and can be confusing.

Many people seem to think ASP.NET Core is simply the next version of ASP.NET MVC. However, it is so much more than that, it is a replacement and …

If you have an ASP.NET Core project that was working fine and you upgrade to Visual Studio 2017, you're bound to hit the Duplicate Content compile error. This will affect you regardless of which framework you use and affects both .NET Framework and .NET Core projects, even if you haven't upgraded to .NET Core 2.0.

In this post, I explain why it happens, why the change has been made, …

If you want to set a custom code analysis rule set on an ASP.NET Core project, there is currently no UI tooling in Visual Studio 2017 to support this scenario. However, you can add it manually to the csproj file.

To set a custom code analysis rule set on an ASP.NET Core project, right click on the project in solution explorer, select Edit <YourProjectName>.csproj …