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Microsoft announced the ASP.NET Core September 2016 Patch Release

Microsoft announced on September 13, 2016 that they are making available a patch release to the ASP.NET Core 1.0 release.  The official announcement can be read here.

According to the release note, this patch contains the following security advisory:

and the following changes:

To update an application to make use of the new release, simply update the package references in project.json file to use the latest 1.0.1 versions of the packages.

Microsoft recommends that the following packages version number be updated to 1.0.1 Read more

MySQL Connector for ASP.NET Core

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This is pretty exciting!  MySQL now has its Connectors available to use with .NET Core.

For more details, please see Gabriel Valencia‘s September 7 blog on
MySql Connector NET for .NET Core 1.0.

Prior to this, I have been using Bradley Grainger‘s MySqlConnector.

It has served me well, but I believe it has been intended as a stopgap until MySQL has come out with its official version. The Nuget packages for MySQL Connector/NET 7.0.5 m4 Development Release is now available at:

Check it out if you use MySQL as your data store!

How-To: Virtual Host Setup on Localhost with Linux Mint 17

I have a local development machine that has Linux Mint 17 installed.  To make my life as a web developer easier, I would like to configure my single machine to host multiple development environments.  In addition, I would like to configure these environments such that the link would like similar to that in the “real world”.

After struggling for a bit, I finally come up with the steps to reliably configured it on my own set up. Read more