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 #jsweekly and #frontendweekly roundups too!)
Software
- The Visual Studio Code team announce the release of Visual Studio Code 1.0. Paul Thurrott also shares an announcement of 1.0’s release.
- Daria Dovzhikova announces the release of ReSharper Ultimate 2016.1.
- Hadi Hariri announces JetBrains joining the .NET Foundation.
- Richard Li announces face and emotion detection for Azure Media Analytics.
ECMAScript/JavaScript
- Dr. Axel Rauschmayer continues digging deeper into promises in ECMAScript 6 with a look at listing directories recursively and how that leads to a tree of promises.
- Paul Shannon wrote a great piece on EMCAScript 6 Symbols.
- kirupa discusses Events in React.js.
ASP.NET Core
- Shawn Wildermuth takes a look at deploying ASP.NET Core applications onto Azure App Services.
- Shayne Boyer discusses the debugging support in VS Code for ASP.NET Core RC2 which was demonstrated in last week’s ASP.NET Community Standup.
- Rakesh Ranjan Singh announces the latest release of the .NET Framework Repair tool which now supports .NET Frameworks 4.5.2, 4.6, and 4.6.1.
- Ross Gardler announces the general availability of Azure Container Service providing easy and flexible containerisation features for the Azure platform.
Miscellaneous
- Daniel Wertheim is looking to hand over the maintenance of MyCouch, an async driver for .NET interfacing with CouchDB and the Cloudant service.
- Tugberk Ugurlu discusses version number using SemVer and looks at its implementation in his CI environment.
- Gabriel Schenker continues his series looking at implementing a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline with the aim of having zero downtime.
- Thomas Levesque test drove a few of the new C# 7 features in the latest Visual Studio 15 Preview.
- David McCarter covers properly throwing and re-throwing exceptions in his series tagged Ask dotNetDave.
- Herve Roggero wrote about how he manages multiple SQL Server instances.
- Joe Mayo takes a look at the use of the Bot Builder SDK for the Bot Framework, looking at the use of Dialogs to prompt users and move through questions.
- Cellfish kicks off a series looking at learning Go from the point of view of a C# developer.
Community
- Scott Hanselman joins the ASP.NET Team for this week’s Community Standup discussion and demos.
- Jeffrey T Fritz shares his notes from this week’s ASP.NET Community Standup.
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