AWS Developer Tools Blog

Category: .NET

CognitoAuthentication Extension Library Developer Preview

We are pleased to announce the Developer Preview of the CognitoAuthentication extension library. This library simplifies the authentication process of Amazon Cognito User Pools for .NET 4.5, .NET Core, and Xamarin developers. Many customers reported that they directly implemented the Secure Remote Password (SRP) protocol themselves. This process requires hundreds of lines of difficult cryptography […]

Announcing the AWS Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services

Today Amazon Web Services announced the AWS Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). The tools are free to use and are distributed in the Visual Studio Marketplace. You can use these tasks in build and release pipelines hosted within VSTS and Team Foundation Server to interact with AWS services. For example, you can […]

AWS and .NET Core 2.0

Yesterday, .NET Core 2.0 was released, and at AWS we’re very excited about the new features and maturity added to the .NET Core platform. In the coming months, we’ll be updating AWS services to have first-class support for .NET Core 2.0. You can get started using .NET Core 2.0 on AWS right away in two […]

ASP.NET Core and AWS CodeStar Deep Dive

The AWS CodeStar team recently announced the addition of two ASP.NET Core project templates. As you might know, AWS CodeStar creates a code-integration and code-deployment(CI/CD) pipeline on behalf of developers, so they can spend their valuable time building applications instead of building infrastructure. With the new ASP.NET Core project templates, .NET developers can build and […]

Screencast using .NET Core with AWS Serverless from NDC Oslo

Last month I had the pleasure of speaking at the NDC conference in Oslo talking about .NET Core and AWS Serverless technologies. The talk focused around a new reference application I have been working on called Pollster. Two years ago at the 2015 AWS re:Invent conference we demoed a version of Pollster using .NET Core, […]

Improvements for AWS CloudFormation and Amazon CloudWatch in the AWS Tools for PowerShell Modules

Trevor Sullivan, a Systems Development Engineer here at Amazon, recently contributed some new AWS CloudFormation helper cmdlets and improved formatting for types he works with on a daily basis. These updates were released in version 3.3.119.0 of the AWS Tools for PowerShell modules (AWSPowerShell and AWSPowerShell.NetCore), in addition to new support in Amazon CloudWatch metrics […]

General Availability of the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio 2017

We’re pleased to announce that the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio is now generally available (GA) for Visual Studio 2017. You can install it from the Visual Studio Gallery. The GA version is 1.12.1.0. Unlike with previous versions of the toolkit, we are using the Visual Studio Gallery to distribute new versions that target Visual Studio […]

Updates to AWSPowerShell Cmdlet Names

Since we launched the first AWS module for PowerShell five years ago, we’ve been hugely encouraged by the feedback from the user community, from first-time PowerShell users to PowerShell MVPs. In that time, we’ve acted immediately on some feedback, and put more complex changes into our backlog for future consideration. One common request from experienced […]

Security update to AWS SDK for .NET’s Amazon CloudFront Cookie Signer

The AWS SDK for .NET has a utility class, Amazon.CloudFront.AmazonCloudFrontCookieSigner, for creating signed cookies to access private content served using Amazon CloudFront. This blog contains details on usage of this utility class along with sample code. Specifying AmazonCloudFrontCookieSigner.Protocols.Https as the protocol parameter creates a cookie with incorrect policy; the policy contains a resource restriction of […]

Using AWS CodeCommit with Visual Studio Team Explorer

We recently announced support for new features in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio that make working with AWS CodeCommit repositories easy and convenient from within Visual Studio Team Explorer. In this post, we take a look at getting started with setting up credentials, and then how to create and clone repositories from within Team […]