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
- Pratap Lakshman announces official support for .NET Core with MSTest framework and walks through the process of getting up and running with MSTest and .NET Core.
- Jura Gorohovsky announces the opening of the Early Access Program for ReSharper 2016.2.
ASP.NET Core
- Immo Landwerth announces plans to close the gap between .NET Core and the other branches of the .NET Framework to give a better porting story.
- Aaron Stannard shares some passionate thoughts on the impacts of .NET Core and the approach being taken by Microsoft.
- Jeremy D Miller continues his take on ASP.NET Core’s direction, this time focusing on the positives.
- Steve Smith looks at DI inside ASP.NET Core and how it can lead to clean code.
Miscellaneous
- Geoffrey Huntley shares a useful diagnostics library which provides tracing and logging for the Microsoft.Net.HttpClient library.
- Sebastian Solnica shares a look at ‘Diagnostics Kit’, a componentised monitoring solution for .NET applications, which looks worthy of investigation.
- Brij Bhushan shares 9 tips for writing secure ASP.NET applications.
- Scott Hanselman wonders if technology is killing curiosity.
- Matt Warren wrote up a nice piece titled Strings and the CLR - a special relationship.
- Jason Roberts wrote up a great piece on implicit and explicit C# conversion operators.
- Erik Dietrich looks at answering the biggest question of all, Why is GitHub taking over the World?
Community
- Leon Bambrick announces the Stupid Ideas Powershell Slackathon on Friday, June 17th, 2016, which is a free online event, but you do need to register.
- Ayushman Jain announces Worldwide Meetups featuring the Visual Studio Team Services over the Summer of 2016.
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