What’s New with ASP.NET Core 2.2 Preview 1

ASP.NET Core 2.2 has beginning to shape up and is expected to be released before the end of this year.

If you want to try out some of the features, ASP.NET Core 2.2 Preview 1 is already released. As soon as you have the following running in your machine, you are all good to explore those.

• .NET Core SDK 2.2.0-preview1 (which includes ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview1)
• Visual Studio 2017 15.9 Preview 1 or above

ASP.NET Core 2.2

Following are the features of ASP.NET Core 2.2 Preview 1.

• Template Updates: Use of Bootstrap 4, Angular 6 and clean up most of the boilerplate code)

Cleaned Up Templates

• IIS In-process hosting

Right now, when an ASP.NET Core application is hosted in IIS, when a request is made, it’s being forward from w3wp.exe (known as IIS Worker Process) to dotnet.exe via Inter-Process Communication (IPC). This seems to have performance implications and ASP.NET Core team is trying to improve the performance by moving ASP.NET Core logic into IIS Worker Process itself.

• Web API Conventions
• HTTP/2
• Endpoint Routing
• Health Checks
• SignalR Java Client

Check out ASP.NET Core 2.2 Roadmap for more information.

That’s exciting, isn’t it.

Happy Coding.

Regards,

Jaliya