We have a short post this week, as many people are on vacation, including me. Unsurprisingly, no .NET user group has events for this week, so we'll skip the section this time.
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This week's post (and future posts) also contains news I first read on ASP.NET's community spotlight, on F# weekly, on ASP.NET Weekly, and on Chris Alcock's The Morning Brew.
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET - 12/29/2015.
Package of the week: ImageProcessor
Server-side image processing is important. You might need to dynamically generate image thumbnails to make a web site more reactive, or add watermarks on the fly, or create black-and-white versions of the photos in a gallery. In all those scenarios, you'll need image processing, you'll need it to be fast, with a good image quality, and in a concurrency-friendly package, because you're running on the server.
James South's ImageProcessor is one of the .NET libraries you can use. It's open source, lightweight, fast, simple, multi-threading-friendly, and extensible. It also works on .NET Core (look: no GDI+ dependency).
Here's how you'd resize a JPEG image stream in memory to be 150 pixels wide, maintaining its aspect ratio, then send it to the output stream:
Check out the documentation for ImageFactory and its awesome list of methods for more exciting treatments you can apply to your images.
.NET News
- Exploring the new dotnet command-line interface, by Scott Hanselman.
- Mono's Cooperative Mode for SGen GC, by Miguel de Icaza.
- Cross Platform Build Automation with VSTS / TFS 2015, by Punit Ganshani.
- Packaging Libraries with NuGet, by Punit Ganshani.
ASP.NET
- Publishing a ASP.NET 5 Web-Application to IIS Locally by Abhinaba Basu.
F#
The F# community is writing a new blog post daily for this year’s F# Advent Calendar in English. Lots of great new posts to check out this week!
- Automatic Re-build and Background Tasks for Suave.io Websites, by Steffen Forkmann.
- Property-based Testing XSLT, by Tomasz Heimowski.
- Hacking Together @wbfacts, a World Bank Twitter Bot, by Mathias Brandewinder.
- F# Advent Calendar 2015, by Chad Boyer.
- Some Fun with Lambda Calculus, by Carsten König.
- Getting Started with SignalR Using F# and OWIN, by Troy Kershaw.
- Comparing Trees, Functionally, by Matthew Sottile.
- Designing for Problems Too Big to Test, by Craig Stuntz.
- Monogame Snowflakes, by Richard Griffiths.
- F# Powered Real-time Dashboard, by Louie Bacaj.
- WebSharper - A Year in Review, by Adam Granicz.
- F#, Minecraft, and a Raspberry Pi, by Chris Dobson.
- Generating Markov Text from YouTube Comments, by Taylor Wood.
- Twitter Local, by Indy Garcia.
Check out F# Weekly for more great content from the F# community.
And this is it for this week!