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 roundup too!)
Software
- The SQL Server Team announce the release of SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 which includes all the fixes up to and including Cumulative Update 5.
- Microsoft Research releases Graph Engine 1.0, which was formerly known as Trinity, a distributed, in-memory, large graphing processing engine.
- Artem Govorov showcases Wallaby.js for Visual Studio, a continuous test runner for JavaScript.
- Ron Cain announces the open sourcing of WCF with a new project bringing a subset of WCF functionality to .NET Core.
Information
- Jeffrey Fritz discusses the changes in budnling in ASP.NET 5 with Where did my ASP.NET bundles go?
- rahulsahay20 continues a series of posts looking at ASP.NET 5, exploring the framework/CLR and providing support for its use.
- Vincent Mave Durano also provides a good overview of the new features of ASP.NET 5, covering the various important aspects of the new framework.
- Colin Angus Mackay discusses the importance of Unit Testing and Code Coverage walking through how to set it up as part of your Team City Build process.
- Jonathan Allen continues his series looking at the proposals for new C# Features, exploring proposal 119, which covers Method Contracts allowing you to add further conditions to the parameters and returns of a method.
- Tobiah Marks has a nice introductory guide to the Visual Studio Code IDE.
- Ricardo Peres shares another lesser known feature of NHibernate, Calculated Properties.
- James Michael Hare challenges us all with another little puzzler, Validate a Sudoku Board.
- Nicholas C Zakas talks about the bunny theory of code and why he places a very high value on what ends up checked in to a source code repository.
- Dino Esposito talks about ASP.NET SignalR: Old-fashioned Polling, Just done Better.
- Lucian Wischik shares the second part of a series looking at building Windows 10 applications with VB.
- Ricardo Peres highlights a great ‘book a day’ offer from the folks over at Packt Publishing, where they are giving free access to a different title every day.
- Steve Michelotti discusses getting the lightweight Visual Studio Code IDE to be able to execute Node.JS using the Task Runner functionality.
- Michael Crump takes a getting started look at the newly open sourced JustDecompile Engine from Telerik.
- Bill Wagner talks about why VB is 1-based and C# is 0-based in his latest blog posting.
- Peter Vogel talks about what is new in Visual Basic 14 for Visual Studio 2015, all of which were vast improvements to Visual Studio (if you ask me)
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