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
- Rich Lander, Jeffrey T Fritz, Rowan Miller, John Montgomery, Miguel Lacouture, and Scott Hanselman announce the release of .NET Core along with VS 2015 Update 3,the Entity Framework Core 1.0, and WCF Connected Services.
- Adarsh Solanki announces Video OCR Public Preview.
ECMAScript/JavaScript
- Humprey Cogay looks at AngularJS2 on ASP.NET Core using TypeScript.
- Jeffrey Fritz has a few 10 minute tips for Web Forms with AngularJS.
- ECMAScript Team releases the 2016 Language Specification.
ASP.NET Core
- Muhammad Rehan Saeed wrote about Fluent Interface Extensions in ASP.NET Core.
- Jeff Sandquist announce .NET Core Docs.
- Hrvoje Hudoletnjak covers Ubuntu with XFCE, ASP.NET Core and Nginx and check out Part 2.
- Stephen Cleary talks about .NET/.NET Core versions.
- Bipin Joshi covers ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection.
- Andrew Lock looks at reloading strongly typed options on file changes in ASP.NET Core RC2.
Miscellaneous
- Oren Novotny claims Portable is dead, long live NetStandard!
- Wizards of Smart covers .NET Fatigue, are there too many missing features from .NET Core that are leaving you exasperated? Are you looking at other platforms instead of .NET Core?
- Barry Dorrans provides us with ASP .NET Authorization Workshop, moving through various new pieces in the ASp.NET v5 Authorization.
- Dave Johnson walks us through building an amazing Markdown Editor using Visual Studio Code and Pandoc.
- Joe Mayo shows off the Unit Converter Bot.
- Robert Green & James Montemagno wrote a nice piece, Getting Started with Xamarin - Visual Studio Toolbox.
- Mr. javaman asks, can co-routines with functions in C# replace MVVM?
- Jason Grigsby reminds us that Autofill exists and there are things we web devs should know, but don’t in regards to it.
Community
- Red Hat DevNation 2016 live streamed from Channel 9 the official launch of .NET Core and ASP.NET Core
- swlaschin links us to Functional Track talks from NDC Oslo 2016.
- Tugberk Ugurlu provides a general overview of NDC Oslo 2016.
- ASP.NET Team had their weekly standup on June 28th covering the .NET Core 1.0 release.
- Martin Woodward announces Samsung joining the .NET Foundation Technical Steering Group.
- Scottish Developers / Colin Angus Mackay have a FREE .NET Core Deep Dive event in Glasgow on July 7th.
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