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 Stebner shares an update version of the .NET Framework Setup Verification Tool and the .NET Framework Cleanup tool both which now support .NET 4.6.1
- Ed Price shares the details of the latest Visual Studio Code release, the introduction of a new insiders channel which will enable you to get the latest bits first and outlines the new features included in v0.10.5. Be sure to check Ed’s post on the new features available in v0.10.5 too. Don’t forget the announcement v0.10.6 release too which fixes a crash on OSX startup.
- Jura Gorohovsky outlines the release of ReSharper Ultimate 10.0.2, which includes a variety of bug fixes and improvements to ReSharper, ReSharper C++, dotTrace, dotMemory, dotCover and dotPeek.
ECMAScript/JavaScript
- Jaime Gonzalez Garcia continues his JavaScript for C# developers series with a look at the details of EMCAScript6 classes.
- Rick Strahl shares a small jQuery Resizable Plugin that he created.
Miscellaneous
- Eric Gunnerson continues his series on TDD taking a look at design and how TDD helps elicit design feedback.
- Alexandr Nikitin talks about a JIT optimization that can take a static readonly variable and optimize it to a const.
- Sergiy Baydachnyy posted about a Debugger for Chrome Extension for Visual Studio Code and how to utilize it within VSCode.
- Matt Ellis posted an End of the Year Round up of ReSharper 10 extensions that every developer should have.
- Khalid Abuhakmeh looks at a better template system for ASP.NET 5 where templates are broken down into smaller feature packs called cubes, these cubes are comprised of code files, configuration and references to necessary Nuget packages. All in all, it sounds interesting.
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