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
- Daria Dovzhikova announces the release of ReSharper Ultimate 2016.1.2.
- Miguell announces WCF Connected Service for .NET Core RC2 and ASP.NET Core RC2.
- Damien Bowden released a SQL Localization NuGet package for ASP.NET Core.
- Blair Conrad announces the release of 2.0 of FakeItEasy.
ECMAScript/JavaScript
- Dr. Axel Rauschmayer covers 6 nifty ES6 tricks, covering, default parameter values, iterating over array indices/elements, iterating over unicode code points, swapping values via destructuring, templating literals, and mixins via subclass factories.
- Moritz Kroger writes about Untangling Spaghetti Code: Writing Maintainable JavaScript.
- Shaun Xu dug deeper into ‘this’ when used in the ES6 Arrow Function.
- Adam Anderson talks about the Great Semicolon Debate.
ASP.NET Core
- Rick Strahl write a nice article on implementing strongly typed configuration settings in ASP.NET Core.
- Simone Chiaretta posted how to debug a .NET Core RC2 app with Visual Studio Code on Windows.
- Nemanja Milosevic write up a nice article on running .NET Core RC2 on Fedora 23.
- Hrvoje Hudoletnjak discusses the significance of the RC2 release of .NET Core and looks at the various new features and stories that this release and the new framework support.
- Damien Bowden shows how to create and request SQL localized data in ASP.NET Core.
Miscellaneous
- Ted Neward takes a look at the various implementation possibilities for the Builder Pattern.
- Dino Esposito discusses some basics of password management in ASP.NET applications and how a plain simple password page is not so simple anymore.
- Morten Anderson shares a simple tip which allows you to reset your Entity Framework Migrations and start over with an initial migration which has your current data model in it.
- Cade Cairns and Daniel Somerfield wrote a nice piece on the basics of web application security.
- Derek Comartin writes about logging exceptions in .NET using Exceptionless.
Community
- Scott Guthrie will be talking at the AzureCraft Event being held on the 3rd and 4th of June in London.
- DDD North returns on Saturday, October 1st with the free conference taking place in Leeds. Submissions for sessionare now open until the 6th of August.
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