Hello and welcome to This Week in .NET — a lovingly curated collection of links relating to what’s new and exciting in the world of .NET. The complete list is tagged dotnetweekly. (Don’t forget to check out our weekly JavaScript and front end roundups too!)
Software
- The JetBrains team behind Rider, their new C# IDE highlight plans to start opening up the project to outsiders.
- Brian Harry highlights the release of the TFS 2015 Update 2 RC 1 and VS 2015 Update 2 CTP 1, focusing on the announcement of the TFS 2015 Update 2 RC 1.
- John Montgomery shares a look at the improvements included in the CTP for Update 2 of Visual Studio 2015 on the Visual Studio blog.
ECMAScript/JavaScript
- Joshua Drew wrote an article on getting started with TypeScript and be sure to check out his article on adding TypeScript support to an Existing Project.
- Julian M Bucknall continues a series of posts building up to looking at functional programming in JavaScript, exploring the SOLID priniciples, particularly the ‘S’ and how it relates to functional code.
- Ed Price writes about the new features coming to Visual Studio Code for JavaScript.
- Jaime Gonzalez Garcia shares a first video to support his JavaScript series (Master the Arcane Art of JavaScript-mancy) of posts based upon his usergroup presentations.
- Ricardo Peres discusses the use of Data URLs to inline scripts and how that process provides some level of obfuscation.
Miscellaneous
- Pete Hodgson finishes his piece on Feature Toggles by talking about how to working with feature toggled systems.
- Derek Comartin takes a look at using Embedded Resources in ASP.NET Core projects.
- Scott Hanselman responds to a reader query about GitHub commit activity and its role in the developer hiring process.
- Ed Price takes a look at the Git Version Control features found in Visual Studio Code.
- Jeff Sanders tells us how to manually attach a debugger to Azure Web Apps.
- Max McCarty wrote up a good reminder of an important OWASP top 10 item, Preventing sensitive data exposure in ASP.NET.
- Bill Wagner talks about a proposed C# 7 feature, Slicing.
- Mark Rendle kicks off a series of posts looking at the .NET Core framework, labeled, A (Hitchhiker’s) Guide to the .NET Core Projects on GitHub.
- Eric Gunnerson discusses the levels of ignorance and applies them to developers experiences and system/software design in his latest You suck at TDD #3 - On Design sensitivity and improvement.
Community
- Colin Angus Mackay announces the Techorama Tour
- Yan Cui announces upcoming user group talks in the UK
- Scottish Developers announce the return of DDD Scotland, to be held in Edinburgh on Saturday 14th May 2016. Call for Speakers is now open.
I hope you enjoyed this week’s links. Which ones caught your attention?
Please PM me if you have anything of interest for the next issue, and happy reading! - cpradio