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
- The Microsoft Azure Stack Team announces the availability of their upcoming Azure Stack Technical Preview.
ECMAScript/JavaScript
- Dr. Axel Rauschmayer highlights the rather small set of features which are making it into the ECMAScript 2016 release.
- Alexandre Brisebois talks about how TypeScript improved JavaScript to the extent that he no longer hates the language.
MVC
- Jean Jacques Dubray talks about why he no longer uses MVC frameworks.
Miscellaneous
- Chris Pietschmann talks about Azure Stack and what it is.
- Mark Rendle continues his discussion of running .NET Core on Linux, taking a look at the structure of the tooling and exploring Native parts of the framework code.
- Seb Lambla discusses the use of different HTTP status codes in REST based APIs.
- Chris Love speaks about the significance of Free SSL on Azure Web Sites.
- Pete Hodgson continues his series on Feature Toggles with a new section on the configuration of them, discussing the use of dynamic and static configuration.
- Matt Johnson reminds us that this year (and more specifically this month) we experience a leap year and reminds us of the potential for issues when leap days are encountered.
- David Demaree discusses the benefits of a good commit message to the use of your version control system.
- Jeffrey T. Fritz demystifies the ContentFiles of NuGet.
- Cade Cairns and Daniel Somerfield talk about the basics of Web Application Security.
- Kenneth Truyers writes about new features in C# 7 in his Part 1, and now Part 2.
- Matt Warren started a series on how garbage collectors work, looking at how they work instead of what they do.
- Richard Carr writes about a little known feature of how to find/view the return value when debugging an application using Visual Studio 2013 and later.
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