The week in .NET - 7/12/2016

To read the last post, see The week in .NET – 6/28/2016.

On .NET

Last week, we had Mukul Sabharwal on the show to talk about .NET Core usage at Bing.

This week, we’ll have Lucas Meijer from Unity Technologies on the show.

Package of the week: LinqToTwitter

LINQ to Twitter is an open source library that enables querying Twitter using standard LINQ syntax.

Here’s an example of a query that returns search results where people are tweeting about LINQ to Twitter:

Game of the week: Assault Android Cactus

Assault Android Cactus is a fast paced arcade style twin stick shooter. In Assault Android Cactus, players must battle waves of enemies and giant robots while avoiding having their battery fully drain. (You are androids, after all!) Players can select between nine playable androids, each of which has a distinct set of abilities that require a different play style. Assault Android Cactus supports both single player and local-player co-op modes.

Assault Android Cactus was created by Witch Beam Games using Unity, JavaScript and C#. It is currently available on Windows, Mac, Linux, Wii U and PlayStation 4. More information can be found on their Made with Unity page.

User group meeting of the week: The latest on .NET and ASP.NET with Scott Hanselman

On Wednesday, July 13 at 12:00PM, the Adelaide .NET User Group is hosting a meeting where you’ll hear an update on the progress of .NET, .NET Core and ASP.NET Core.

.NET

Where’s DNVM? Safely running multiple versions of the .NET Core SDK and Tooling with global.json, by Scott Hanselman.
How the dotnet CLI tooling runs your code, by Matt Warren.
Lucene.NET 4.8 is in beta – and we need your help!
Step by step: .NET Core and Entity Framework Core, by Carlos Mendible.
Use the Desktop Bridge to Bring Your Apps to UWP – Video, by Rosshe Keantonc.
LongRunning Is Useless For Task.Run With async-await, by Bar Arnon
Getting started with StructureMap in ASP.NET Core, by Andrew Lock
Deploy a Service Fabric Cluster to Azure with .NET Framework 4.6 (ARM template), by Andrej Medic
How to configure urls for Kestrel, WebListener and IIS express in ASP.NET Core, by Andrew Lock

ASP.NET

Understanding Routing Precedence in ASP.NET MVC and Web API, by Rion Williams.
How to Master ASP.NET Core Web API Attribute Routing, on Mobilemancer.
Adding parameters to the OpenID Connect Authorization URL, by Jerrie Pelser.
Issuing and authenticating JWT tokens in ASP.NET Core WebAPI – Part I, by William Hallatt.
How to continuously deploy a ASP.NET Core 1.0 web app to Microsoft Azure, by Jürgen Gutsch.
Securing ASP.NET Web API, by Sovit Poudel

F#

Continuous – F# IDE for the iPad, by Frank Krueger
Hacking Web Stuff with F#, by Phil Trelford & Tomas Petricek
Getting Started with F# on .NET Core, by Phillip Carter
Referencing an F# library from C# on .NET Core, by Gergely Kalapos

Check out F# Weekly for more great content from the F# community.

Xamarin

What’s New in Xamarin.Forms – Video, by James Montemagno.
Using Xamarin Forms with .NET Standard, by Oren Novotny.
.NET Standard Library with Xamarin Forms, by Adam Pedley.
Unit testing with Xamarin.Forms’ DependencyService, by Rob Gibbens.

Games

Unity 5 Tutorial: How to make a Crafting system like in Minecraft part 1 – Video, by Gamad
Build Your First Game with MonoGame: Getting Started, by Dean Ellis.
Unity 5 Swimming System and tutorial – Video, by Jay AnAm

And this is it for this week!

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