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On .NET 3/3/2016 – Rachel Reese on F# at Jet.com

Our guest this week is Rachel Reese, to talk about Jet.com, and about how they use F# to build their micro-service architecture. Jet.com can be found at... https://jet.com/ Rachel's talk at fsharpConf 2016. Try F#: http://www.tryfsharp.org/ Rachel's Hanselminutes interview. I made a mistake near the end of the show, saying ...

.NET Framework Compatibility Diagnostics

This post was written by Taylor Southwick, a software engineer on the .NET team. Introduction Updates to the .NET Framework 4 are delivered as highly-compatible in-place updates, which helps keep users' applications running on the latest and most secure versions of the .NET Framework. Some deviation from previous behavior has beeen seen when ...

fsharpConf 2016

Join us this Friday, March 4th on Channel 9 for the first ever fsharpConf! Tune in starting at 8:30am PST (16:30 GMT). (image) Inspired by dotNetConf, fsharpConf is a free, online-only, day-long conference featuring an awesome lineup of talks from the F# community. Check out the fsharpConf site for more details, and follow @fsharpConf on ...

The week in .NET – 3/1/2016

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 2/23/2016. On.NET Last week, we had a fun, slightly chaotic discussion with Scott Hanselman. This week, our guest is Rachel Reese, and we'll talk about Jet.com and F#. Package of the week: SkiaSharp Xamarin released a new 2D drawing API based on Google's powerful Skia library that powers ...

The week in .NET – 2/23/2016

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 4:00PM 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 ...

Porting MSBuild to .NET Core

This post was written by Daniel Plaisted, a software engineer on the .NET Team. It's an exciting time for .NET. With .NET Core, we're moving full speed ahead into an open source, cross-platform world. .NET Core provides a framework for your apps that is modern, app-local, cross-platform, and open source all the way down. However, .NET Core ...

The week in .NET – 2/17/2016

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET 2/11/2016. On.NET Last week, we had Aaron Stannard on the show, to talk about Akka.NET. This week, I'm looking forward to a chat with Joe Duffy about Midori. Packages of the week: Scientist ports No matter how carefully you are testing a refactoring, it's hard to be 100% sure your changes will...