Previous posts: Open-source project of the week: Let's Encrypt Azure Web App Renewer There's a growing consensus that all web sites should transition now to be encrypted with HTTPS. This comes at a cost, and with the friction associated with acquiring and renewing certificates. The problem of cost is now addressed by Let's Encrypt, but the fri...

Previous posts: Visual Studio extension of the week: Project File Tools The Project File Tools Visual Studio extension provides package name and version IntelliSense, tooltips for packages, and more, when editing a file in Visual Studio. The extension just got updated. Get it from the Visual Studio Marketplace. Interview of the wee...

Previous posts: .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, Entity Framework 2.0, and Visual Studio 2017 Update 3 launched! This is a week to celebrate for the .NET community, as .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, and Entity Framework 2.0 shipped! We're also getting an update to Visual Studio 2017 with lots of improvements for .NET Core developers. Read th...

Previous posts: Tool of the week: Rezoom.SQL Rezoom.SQL is an F# ORM for SQL databases. It integrates with the F# compiler via a generative type provider to statically typecheck its own dialect of SQL. It knows how to translate this SQL dialect to various backends. Currently it supports SQLite, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL. The type provider mak...

Previous posts: Tool of the week: Nuke Nuke is a cross-platform build automation system with C# DSL, much like Cake. It features auto-completion, refactoring, and navigation in all IDEs. Nuke avoids complexity, and integrates as a normal project. Package of the week: Warden.NET The System.Diagnostics.Process class while useful does not hav...

Previous posts: Package of the week: MIST The interface is essential to many applications such as Windows Forms or WPF data binding. Implementing it can however be fastidious, and involves quite a lot of boilerplate code. MIST simplifies this using IL weaving and a custom Visual Studio build task. With MIST, you can use simple auto-properties...

This post was co-written by Daniel Podder and Bertrand Le Roy. .NET Core 2.0 introduces many new optimizations that will make your code even faster. A lot of work has been done in the base class library to improve performance, but in this post, we'd like to talk about a specific category of optimization: profile-guided optimization (or PGO, pron...

Previous posts: Package of the week: Command Line Parser Library Command-line applications typically accept arguments and options, and expose a page describing them. Parsing those arguments and options is a repetitive task that .NET provides little help for out of the box, beyond the argument to . Giacomo Stelluti Scala's Command Line Parser...

This week's post will exceptionally be made of links only, as I'm on vacation...Previous posts:.NETASP.NETC#F#There is more content available this week in F# Weekly. If you want to see more F# awesomeness, please check it out!XamarinAzureUWPDataAnd this is it for this week!Contribute to the week in .NETAs always, this weekly post couldn't exist wit...

This week's post will exceptionally be made of links only, as I'm on vacation...Previous posts:.NETASP.NETC#F#There is more content available this week in F# Weekly. If you want to see more F# awesomeness, please check it out!XamarinAzureUWPDataAnd this is it for this week!Contribute to the week in .NETAs always, this weekly post couldn't exist wit...