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
- David Justice announces the release of Azure Powershell 1.0, available for install from the Web Platform Installer and featuring a number of improvements and new features.
- Nicole Bruck highlights the release of Update 1 for Office Developer tools for Visual Studio 2015.
- SubMain releases GhostDoc v5.0, which now introduces documentation quality hints in Visual Studio, documentation management assistance - find auto-generated comments, the ability to edit/remove the bulk created docs, and much more.
ECMAScript/JavaScript
- Jaime Gonzalez Garcia takes a detailed look at applying C# objected oriented programming techniques in JavaScript.
- Dr. Axel Rauschmayer gives the background to Object.values / Object.entries in the EMCAScript proposal from Jordan Harband.
- Dr. Axel Rauschmayer continues his look into EMCAScript proposals taking on a call for string padding capabilities in the core language.
- K. Scott Allen announces the launch of his new book, What Every JavaScript Developer Should Know about ECMAScript 2015, available from Amazon.
- Rami Sayar continues his series looking at the new features of ECMAScript 2015, exploring the use of the arrow and spread operators.
MVC
- Dan Roberts shows us how to hand off to another ASP.NET MVC Controller Action without redirecting.
Miscellaneous
- Paul Mooney shares a look down into the depths of the .NET CLR with his write-up, .NET CLR Explained.
- Alexandr Nikitin looks at how you can use Event Tracing for Windows events emitted by the .NET Just In Time Compiler to understand how it is optimizing your code.
- Alexandr Nikitin continues his look into the JIT by explaining Hoisting in .NET, which removes code from loops that do not need to be in loops.
- Henrik F Nielsen discusses the new JSON WebHook Receiver introduced in the latest update and looks at using it with a number of different APIs, including IFTTT.
- Kevin Logan shares a look at how FakeItEasy makes it quicker to test Entity Framework code.
- Jan Van Ryswyck discusses the idea that every feature added to software adds a burden and the benefits of removing old unused features to free yourselves from that burden.
- Barry Dorrans gives us an update on .NET Core and ASP.NET Bug Bounty.
- Iris Classon shares a quick tip on the use of Conditional Breakpoints and reminds us that powers that lurk within Visual Studio.
- Anirudha Gupta talks about the slow operations he has been having with nuget and how he overcame it.
- Andrei Marukovich talks about working with GitHub from Visual Studio 2015.
- Steve Smith takes a look at the weird and wonderful world of estimates in software, sharing 5 laws to bear in mind when making estimates.
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