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
- Brian Harry introduces us to Application Insights Analytics.
- Adrian Hall announces the publication of Parse Server with Azure Managed Services.
- Jeffrey T Fritz announces NuGet 3.4.
- Nat Friedman announces the inclusion of Xamarin for free in all editions of Visual Studio as part of the Microsoft acquisition of Xamarin.
ECMAScript/JavaScript
- Jaime Gonzalez Garcia talks about JavaScript Arrays, the all-in-one data structure.
- Jaime Gonzalez Garcia also started a series on Getting Start with Angular 2 that is a great read!
- Dr. Axel Rauschmayer states promised based functions should not throw exceptions and talks about why that is.
ASP.NET Core
- Filip W talks about the perils of Controller Dependency Injection in ASP.NET Core MVC.
- The ASP.NET Monsters released another webcast this time focusing on Advanced Tag Helpers in ASP.NET Core.
- Seth Juarez and Barry Dorrans continue with part 2 of their Get Started with ASP.NET Core Authorization.
- Muhammad Rehan Saeed wrote Part 1 for Sub-resource Integrity Tag Helper using ASP.NET Core.
- SyedShanu wrote an introduction to ASP.NET Core 1.0 MVC 6 and using Web API and AngularJS.
- Jeffrey T Fritz wrote up nice article on Dependency Injection in ASP.NET Core.
Docker
- Scott Hanselman writes about Docker for Windows Beta being announced.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan talks about the new Docker Machine for Azure.
- Ross Gardler writes about using containers in production with Marathon v1.0.
- Nathan Gloyn published an article on using VMWare workstation with Docker on Windows.
- Nathan Gloyn wrote a second article helping you identify the location of a VM when using VMWare and Docker on windows.
- Patrick Chanezon write about Docker on Mac and Windows Beta, as being the simplest way to use Docker on your laptop.
- Shawn Wildermuth did a webcast on Docker and ASP.NET Core.
- Gabriel Schenker added a Part 2 to his CI with TeamCity and Docker series.
Build 2016
- Scott Hanselman writes about the ability for Developers to run Bash Shell and user-mode Ubuntu Linux binaries on Windows 10.
- Iris Classon wrote up some notes for the Keynote on Day 1 of Build 2016.
- Fillip W wrote an article on enabling C# 7 features in Visual Studio 2015 Preview.
- Microsoft talks about their Bot Framework.
- Raymond Wong created a Everything you need to know from Microsoft’s Build 2016 event.
- Rob Reynolds discusses the Windows support for Bash and ELF binaries on Windows and what it means for the Chocolatey project.
- Rich Lander discusses the new language features in C# and VB which are included in the Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 release.
- Kaycee Anderson discusses the new and improved exception helper, available as a feature toggle in the Visual Studio 2015 Preview release, which also now lets you break on exceptions thrown only from specific modules.
Miscellaneous
- Eric Gunnerson continues his series, You Suck at TDD, with #7 – Improvements Phase 2.
- Chris F Carroll wrote up a nice piece on running a child web application in a virtual directory under a parent application in IIS Express.
- Jon Hilton writes about reducing coupling to free your code and your tests.
- The ASP.NET Monsters released a webcast on Docs and GitHub Repos.
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