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
- Jeffrey T Fritz announces the release of v16.1 of the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.
- Ricardo Peres shares an update on Postal.NET, his pub/sub/domain events portable class library insured by Postal.js.
- Eric Zajac reminds us that support is ending for Visual Studio 2005.
- Giorgi Dalakishvili shares a neat LinqPad extension, QueryPlanVisualizer, which gives visualization of the query plan at the database level, along with help to create missing indexes for your queries.
- Mary Jo Foley discusses the next Windows 10 update and the new extension capabilities of the Microsoft Edge browser.
- Benjamin Fistein introduces Peachpie, a PHP Compiler for .NET.
ECMAScript/JavaScript
- Shaun Xu wrote up an interesting article on paying attention when using the ES6 arrow function with arguments.
ASP.NET Core and MVC
- Shawn Wildermuth takes a look at the RC1 build of ASP.NET Core and the implementation of content negotiation.
- Steve Wilkes shares some of the things he learnt during the implementation of a small website using ASP.NET Core and MVC6.
- Nicolas Bello Camilletti takes a look at working with Angular 2 and ASP.NET Core.
- Jeffrey T Fritz kicks off a short series of posts looking at Authorization in ASp.NET Core, featuring interviews with the ASP.NET Team with Pranav Rastogi and Barry Dorrans.
- Garry Pilkington talks about deploying an MVC Application to a Container.
- Scott Dorman wrote an article on integrating ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection in MVC 4.
Agile
- Seb Lambla continues his series, Agile Anarchy, this week diving into Wall un-building and the Panopticon and Remote working.
Miscellaneous
- Damian Widera shares some links to the latest release candidate of SQL Server 2016, as well as sharing links to blog posts and articles about some of the changes and new features.
- Jeremy D Miller highlights his recent appearance on the .NET Rocks podcast to discuss his Marten document persistence store backed onto Postgresql.
- Jon Hilton writes a follow up article titled, Apply “Tell Don’t Ask” and reduce coupling, to expand on his thoughts in his prior article.
- ASP.NET Monsters released a new podcast, What is Middleware Anyway? Also check out their ASP.NET Core on Docker and Logging Basics in ASP.NET Core podcasts too!
- Eric Gunnerson shifts the focus of his series on Test Driven Development onto the improvement of code, discussing the refactoring process applied to a sample piece of code.
- Erik Dietrich discusses a prevailing opinion that automated tests are a ‘bonus’ and challenges this view point.
- Greg Duncan writes about how to send feedback to Microsoft about Visual Studio Extensibility.
- Shayne Boyer wrote up a great article over changes to yo aspnet, which will be introducing some UI Options soon.
- Peter Vogel wrote an article showing how to add support for LINQ Queries calling your methods.
Community
- Scott Hanselman, Damian Edwards, John Galloway, and Jeffrey T Fritz were all in attendance at the latest March 15th ASP.NET Community Standup. The next one is March 22nd!.
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