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
- Terrence Dorsey highlights a collection of 14 tools that make working with the Azure Platform even easier.
- Jura Gorohovsky announces the release of ReSharper Ultimate 2016.1.1.
- Martin Woodward welcomes WiX Toolset to the .NET Foundation.
ECMAScript/JavaScript
- Steve Sanderson discusses the work going on in ASP.NET Core to make it a first rate platform for building Modern JavaScript applications using Angular 2, React and Knockout, sharing the efforts so far and canvasing for feedback.
ASP.NET Core
- Jeffrey T Fritz shares two new installments of his 10 minute tip series, Where did my bundles go in ASP.NET Core and npm and Gulp part 2.
- Damien Bowden takes a look at performing localization of an Angular based application using a service implemented in ASP.NET Core MVC to return the localization data.
- Martin Beeby and Martin Kearn did a video cast on Tag Helpers in ASP.NET Core.
Miscellaneous
- Michael Dick shares this month’s round up of some of the best new extensions for Visual Studio 2015, including a look at Visual C++ for Linux Development and an extension which allows you to order pizza within the IDE.
- Mike Rousos discusses the in place update nature of the 4.x .NET updates and how targeting, quirking and compatibility flags work.
- Jeffrey T Fritz takes a look at using NPM, Gulp and Bower along side ASP.NET webform applications and walks through the configuration.
- Radoslaw Sadowski takes a look at making code better, by exploring a variety of bad approaches along the way, thinking about why it is good/bad and evolving it to the next version.
- Jeremy D Miller revisits using Mocks or Stubs as his team converts a large application from RavenDb to Marten.
Community
- Scott Hanselman, Damian Edwards, Jon Galloway and Seb Ros hosted the ASP.NET Community Standup on May 3rd talking about Orchard CMS on .NET Core on Ubuntu.
- Jonathan Allen and Jeff Sandquist both introduce the open sourcing of MSDN/TechNet at docs.microsoft.com.
- Dylan Beattie announces the upcoming .NET User Group meeting in London, A Progressive.NET Special!
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