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
- Aaron Hamusa talks about Peasy, a middle tier framework.
- Brady Gaster introduces the latest version of the Azure SDK with improvements for App Service developments and improved validation in the UI.
- Chris Copeland shares a look at the Tor.NET library for connecting through the Tor network for obscured client connections and proxying.
- Linda Zhong and Jordan Matthiesen announce the latest update to the Visual Studio tools for Apache Cordova.
ECMAScript/JavaScript
- Dr. Axel Rauschmayer talks about Enumify, a library for implementing enums in JavaScript.
- Jaime Gonzalez Garcia wrote about making ultra flexible JavaScript OOP using Stamps.
- Dave M Bush provides a cross browser way of implementing copy and paste.
- Joel Lovera has a Github Repo providing a JS Tip everyday!
- Ian Elliot shares jQuery 3.0 Beta, marking its 10th Anniversary.
Miscellaneous
- Tom DuPont talks about how to optimize Json.NET Serialization Performance.
- Naveen Baliga wrote about deploying an ASP.NET 5 website on IIS without using Visual Studio.
- Dmitry Orzhevsky talks about inlining and loops in .NET and shows what it looks like when it gets compiled.
- Christian Heilmann reminds us that browser detection isn’t always useful and we really should be using feature detection. But even then, we are occasionally causing strife on our end users.
- Tugberk Ugurlu shows us how to setup a NGINX Reverse Proxy and Load Balancing for ASP.NET 5 application with Docker Compose.
- Matt Warren talks about Open Source .NET and looks at the past year with the inclusion of ASP.NET now.
- Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan provides a guide for building C# apps on Ubuntu.
- Scott Hanselman declares ASP.NET 5 dead as he introduces ASP.NET Core 1.0 and .NET Core 1.0.
- Pete Hodgson discusses the benefits and use of Feature Toggles in computer systems allowing teams to change functionality and behaviour without modifying code. Check out part 2 as well.
- Erik Dietrich shares thoughts on what to avoid when performing code reviews.
- Girish J Jain takes a look at logging in ASP.NET 5 (now ASP.NET Core 1.0) using trace listeners.
- Daniel Fisher explorese the request size limitations in ASP.NET.
- Rob Kraft discusses a coding best practice about the structure of conditions by avoiding negative conditionals and method names.
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