To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 2/17/2016.
On.NET
Last week, Joe Duffy was on the show to talk about Midori. This week, we had to move the show to Friday at 1:30PM Pacific Time, but we’ll have the pleasure of speaking with Scott Hanselman.
Package of the week: RestSharp
Interacting with REST resources may in theory be just a matter of using standard HTTP, but in practice, there is still ceremony involved around serialization, and authentication. RestSharp is a library that facilitates REST interaction from .NET code.
Here’s how you’d query a hypothetical directory service for information about employees:
User group of the week: Seattle Mobile .NET Developers
On Wednesday, February 24 at 6:00, our own Stacey Haffner will give an introduction to game programming with Unity at the Seattle Mobile .NET Developers meeting.
.NET
- An update on ASP.NET Core and .NET Core by Jeffrey T. Fritz.
- Porting MSBuild to .NET Core by Daniel Plaisted.
- The evolution of interactive C# by Miguel de Icaza.
- SQLite Code First (GitHub) by Marc Sallin is a library that enables EF code first to work with SQLite databases.
- Async-Friendly Stack Trace (GitHub) by Eli Arbel.
- Moq on .NET Core by Armen Shimoon.
ASP.NET
- ASP.NET Core – 2300% More Requests Served Per Second by Ben Adams.
- Getting ASP.NET Core running on Ubuntu by Michael Crook.
- ASP.NET Core 1.0 – Create web application using Yeoman and Visual Studio Code by Mithun Pattankar.
- How to send email from ASP.NET Core with MailKit
by Steve Gordon. - Writing custom middleware in ASP.NET Core by Matthew P Jones.
- View Components in ASP.NET Core by Mike Brind.
- Developing ASP.NET apps in Docker containers by Steve Lasker.
- The cost of routing by Ayende Rahien.
- Two Razor view errors you might be doing too by Simone Chiaretta.
F#
- fsharpConf 2016 is live on Channel 9 on March 4th. Check out the lineup of speakers!
- Ionide and the State of F# Open Source Development, by Krzysztof Cieślak.
- Building Concurrent, Fault-tolerant, Scalable Applications in F# Using Akka.NET, by Riccardo Terrell.
- Domain Modeling with Types, by Ryan Riley.
- Managing RabbitMQ Messages with F# and Akka.NET, by Vagif Abilov.
- Benchmarking IEnumerables in F# – Seq.timed, by Lincoln Atkinson.
- Types + Properties = Software: Designing with Types, by Mark Seemann.
- F# Will Solve Your Everyday Problem Without a Headache, by Tomas Jansson.
Check out F# Weekly for more great content from the F# community.
And this is it for this week!
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This week’s post (and future posts) also contains news I first read on
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on F# weekly,
on ASP.NET Weekly,
and on Chris Alcock’s The Morning Brew.