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
- Ryan Stewart announces the release of Brackets 1.5, an editor designed principly for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript work.
- Steve Lee gives an update on the progress of bringing OpenSSH to Windows by working with NoMachine to update their port and now have released the code as open source.
- Lorenzo Tessiore announces the release of the .NET Micro Framework 4.4.
- Jimmy Bogard announces the release of AutoMapper 4.1.0, a release which involved internal refactorings and rounding out the type map resolution work started in 4.0.
Information
- Scott Hanselman discusses the release of ASP.NET 5 Beta 8 and explores the use of Bower and Gulp to manage clientside dependencies.
- damienbod and Shawn Wildermuth discusses the steps needed to upgrade from an earlier ASP.NET 5 beta to Beta 8.
- Filip W continues from a previous post and answers some of his readers questions about implementing global route prefixes with attribute routing in ASP.NET 5 using MVC 6.
- Doug Finke discusses some new text handling capabilities introduced in PowerShell 5.0, particularly around ConvertFrom-String.
- Jeffrey T. Fritz and the NuGet team discuss some of their changes to the User Interface in version 3 of the package manager.
- Erik Dietrich discusses the demand for rewriting software from developers and thinks about the other view points on software from a business perspective in his “The Myth of the Software Rewrite” article.
- Jeremy D Miller discusses Storyteller 3, diving into the new features, its history, and future roadmap.
- Julian Bucknall continues his series looking at web page performance, discussing the perception of performance and solutions to the types of performance problems we have in his Part 2 and Part 3 of this series.
- Barry Dorrans announces the launch of a bug bounty scheme covering .NET Core and ASP.NET to aid in the rigorous testing and checking for vulnerabilities.
- Daniel Wertheim looks at writing integration tests against WebAPI and making use of the in-memory OWIN pipeline.
- Tugberk Ugurlu explores profiling of ASP.NET 5 applications using ANTS Performance Profiler’s latest release which officially supports ASP.NET 5 applications now.
- Max McCarty takes a look at OWASP Guideline 6, Preventing Sensitive Data Exposure, specifically around password storage.
- Steve Smith shares the latest installation of Falafel Software’s Month long series on Visual Studio 2015, this time covering Live Code Analysis.
- damienbod explores localization techniques in ASP.NET 5 / MVC 6, walking through its configuration.
- David Hayden gives a quick overview of the dependency injection capabilities of ASP.NET 5 MVC 6 and how to get started with the basics of registering services and injecting them into controllers.
Community
- Mitra Azizirad extends the invitation to the Microsoft Connect event being held on the 18th and 19th of November in New York. This event will also be streamed online and has a great line up of MS Speakers including Scot Guthrie and Scott Hanselman, Brian Harry, Amanda Silver, Anders Hejlsberg, and Beth Massi.
- Glenn Block announces the launch of a new podcast series, In the Mood for HTTP, in conjunction with Darrel Miller, discussing all things HTTP.
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