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
- Brad Green announces the release of Angular 2 Beta, which has put significant effort towards improving performance.
ECMAScript/JavaScript
- Jaime Gonzalez Garcia continues his series of posts looking at inheritance in JavaScript from the point of view of a C# Developer, this time exploring the ES6 Class syntax.
MVC
- damienbod shares a look at the process of generating documentation for your MVC 6 API using the Swashbuckle Swagger Library.
Miscellaneous
- Elton Stoneman discusses a couple of factors which make now a very good time for .NET developers to move to cross platform development. Also be sure to check out his Getting Started with .NET and Docker article too.
- Sergiy Baydachnyy takes a look at the PowerShell extension for Visual Studio Code and shares a look at how it makes VS Code a good IDE to utilize PowerShell scripts with.
- Tomas Petricek shares a few book suggestions for those interested in the more formal aspects of Computer Science.
- Doug Finke shares some PowerShell enhancements which can help make developing Visual Studio Code extensions easier.
- Drew McLellan takes a look at the Semantic Versioning version number strategy, discussing its application to software as well as its background.
- Beckylin Orooji shares a look at a community plugin for Glimpse which surfaces Application Insights telemetry data within it.
- Phil Haack asks the all important question, To String or to string.
- Jimmy Bogard continues his series of posts looking at the practical use of some of the new C# 6 features, exploring expression bodied function members this time.
- Erik Dietrich discusses some of the unintended consequences of introducing a code review process and some tricks to avoid falling into many of these pitfalls.
Community
- Rico Mariani discusses a new Computer Science scholarship he has created with the University of Waterloo aimed at helping women get into computing and to get the support and advice of experienced industry contacts.
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