Bertrand Le Roy

Senior Software Engineer, Xamarin

Bertrand has been programming since he was ten. He was an early contributor to ASP.NET, co-founded the Orchard CMS project, and he was also on the team that built .NET Core. He currently works on the Xamarin team on improving the Forms developer experience in Visual Studio and Visual Studio for mac.

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The week in .NET – .NET Conf, Material Design in XAML Toolkit

June 27th, 2017
Previous posts: .NET Conf, September 19-21. Call for Content is Open! (image) .NET Conf is a free, 3 day virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft. Over the course of the three days developers have a wide selection of live sessions that feature speakers from the community and .NET product teams. ...

The week in .NET – .NET Architecture: Microservices & Containers, On .NET with Omer Raviv on OzCode, Sprache

June 20th, 2017
Previous posts: .NET Architecture – Microservices & Containers We recently added an Architecture Guidance page on the .NET Website. This new page pulls together architecture related resources for building different types of applications with .NET. We’ll be adding and updating content as it becomes available. The ...

The week in .NET – On .NET with Mattias Karlsson on Cake, Topshelf

June 14th, 2017
Previous posts: On .NET: Mattias Karlsson - Cake During the Microsoft Build conference, we recorded interviews with some of the attendees. Mattias Karlsson is a core contributor on Cake, the cross-platform build automation system with a C# DSL. Package of the week: Topshelf Topshelf is a framework for hosting ...

The week in .NET – On .NET with Brett Morrison, DateTime Extensions

June 6th, 2017
Previous posts: On .NET: Brett Morrison During the Build conference, I caught up with my friend Brett Morrison. Brett is an entrepreneur, executive, and hands-on developer, who has been using Microsoft products and .NET throughout his career. He founded startups, such as Onestop and ememories, and also worked for SpaceX...

The week in .NET – Open XML SDK, Adventure Time

May 30th, 2017
Previous posts: Package of the week: Open XML SDK The Open XML SDK provides open-source libraries for working with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. It supports scenarios such as high-performance generation of word-processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, high fidelity conversion of Word documents to HTML, ...

The week in .NET – .NET poster, Happy Birthday .NET with Jan Kotas, Skyworld

May 23rd, 2017
Previous posts: .NET Poster Everybody likes posters, right? Well here's a modern .NET infographic to hang in your office. If you were at BUILD, you probably saw us handing thousands of these out to people. Now you can have one too! (image) Download the poster! Happy Birthday .NET with Jan Kotas In this quick ...

The week in .NET – Microsoft Build 2017, .NET Core 2.0 preview 1, For the King

May 16th, 2017
Previous posts: Microsoft Build 2017 The Microsoft Build 2017 conference is over. Here are some of the announcements and highlights: And of course, all the sessions are available on Channel 9. .NET Core 2.0 preview 1 ...

The week in .NET – Microsoft Build 2017, .NET Core 2.0 status, Happy birthday .NET with Eilon Lipton, On .NET with Alfonso García-Caro on Fable, Stanford CoreNLP

May 9th, 2017
Previous posts: Microsoft Build 2017 The Microsoft Build 2017 conference starts tomorrow in Seattle! You can watch the conference live starting at 8:00AM Pacific Time and get the scoop. .NET Core 2.0 status Only a few days to go before we reach zero bugs. Great progress has been made, but we are still 163 bugs away from ...

The week in .NET – .NET Architecture, .NET Core 2.0 status, Happy Birthday .NET with Matt Gertz, On .NET with Don Schenck on Red Hat, Fable

May 2nd, 2017
Previous posts: .NET Architecture There’s a new .NET Architecture web site, where you’ll find practical advice, best practices, and sample applications to help you implement different application patterns using .NET. Check it out! .NET Core 2.0 status 2.0 bugs are mostly under control and we think we will hit our zero-...

The week in .NET – Happy Birthday .NET with Chris Sells, free ASP.NET Core book, We are the Dwarves

April 25th, 2017
Previous posts: Happy birthday .NET with Chris Sells In February, we threw a big .NET birthday bash with Microsoft Alumni and product teams. We caught up with Chris Sells who is currently a Product Manager at Google, and before that a Program Manager at Microsoft. Chris has been part of the .NET developer community since the ...