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The week in .NET – 8/30/2016

August 30, 2016 Aug 30, 2016 08/30/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 8/23/2016. On .NET Last week, Phillip Carter was on the show and gave some pretty neat intro-level F# demos. This week, we'll talk to Ayende Rahien from Hibernating Rhinos, about RavenDB and .NET. The show begins at 11AM Pacific Time on Channel 9. We'll take questions on Gitter, on the ...
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What’s New in C# 7.0

August 24, 2016 Aug 24, 2016 08/24/16
Mads Torgersen
Update (4/2017): See New Features in C# 7.0, the update to this post. What follows is a description of all the planned language features in C# 7.0. With the release of Visual Studio "15" Preview 4, most of these features are coming alive. Now is a great time to take them for a spin and tell us your thoughts! C# 7.0 adds a number...

The week in .NET – 8/23/2016

August 23, 2016 Aug 23, 2016 08/23/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 8/16/2016. On .NET Last week, we moved into our new studios with Channel 9, where JB Evain joined me to interview Lucas Meijer from Unity. We had our fair share of technical hiccups, but Lucas gave some great demos:  This week, we'll bump up the lights a bit, and I won't forget my power...
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PowerShell is now open-source, and cross-platform

August 18, 2016 Aug 18, 2016 08/18/16
Bertrand Le Roy
The PowerShell team made a few announcements today: it's going open-source, and it's now available on Windows, Mac, and Linux. This is excellent news in itself, but the .NET team wanted to take the time to analyze what this means for .NET developers. First, the availability of PowerShell on Linux and macOS, while it doesn't aim at replacing ...
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Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup- August 16th

August 17, 2016 Aug 17, 2016 08/17/16
Maria Naggaga
This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams covering the accomplishments of the team on the new ASP.NET Core framework over the previous week. Within 30 ...

The week in .NET – 8/16/2016

August 16, 2016 Aug 16, 2016 08/16/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 8/9/2016. On .NET Last week, we had Pablo Santos and Francisco Monteverde to talk about PlasticSCM, a version control system with interesting features such as semantic merge and digital asset management. If you think version control is done and that Git is the end of it, you should check out...
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Introducing the .NET Framework Monthly Rollup

August 15, 2016 Aug 15, 2016 08/15/16
Stacey Haffner [MSFT]
We are making an important change to .NET Framework updates to align with the Windows Monthly Rollup, also announced today. Beginning October 2016, you will be able to install a new update release called the .NET Framework Monthly Rollup. The rollup will update the .NET Framework with the latest security and quality improvements. The .NET ...
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Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – August 9, 2016

August 10, 2016 Aug 10, 2016 08/10/16
Jeffrey Fritz
This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams covering the accomplishments of the team on the new ASP.NET Core framework over the previous week. Within 30 minutes...

The week in .NET – 8/9/2016

August 9, 2016 Aug 9, 2016 08/9/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 8/2/2016. On .NET Last week on the show, we had Frank Krueger to talk about his amazing Continuous C# and F# IDE for the iPad. This week, we'll speak with Francisco Monteverde about PlasticSCM. Package of the week: OxyPlot OxyPlot is an open source and cross-platform plotting library...
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Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – July 26, 2016

August 3, 2016 Aug 3, 2016 08/3/16
Jeffrey Fritz
This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams covering the accomplishments of the team on the new ASP.NET Core framework over the previous week. Within 30 minutes...