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.GAME’s Item System – Part 1 Challenge Explained

February 3, 2017 Feb 3, 2017 02/3/17
Stacey Haffner [MSFT]
Last week's episode of .GAME started preparations for an item system that we'll be using for equipment and merchant mechanics. The episode covered some Unity fundamentals, such as methods of object rotation, tags, layers, sorting layers and filtering. We wrapped up with a development challenge, the scenario of which was: When the player moves...

The .NET Language Strategy

February 1, 2017 Feb 1, 2017 02/1/17
Mads Torgersen
The .NET Language Strategy I am constantly aware of the enormous impact our language investments have on so many people's daily lives. Our languages are a huge strength of the .NET platform, and a primary factor in people choosing to bet on it - and stay on it. I've been here on the .NET languages team at Microsoft for more than a decade, and...

January 2017 Update for ASP.NET Core 1.1

January 30, 2017 Jan 30, 2017 01/30/17
Rich Lander [MSFT]
We just released an update for ASP.NET Core 1.1 due to Microsoft Security Advisory 4010983. The advisory is for a vulnerability in ASP.NET Core MVC 1.1.0 that could allow denial of service. All of the information you need is in the advisory. A short summary is provided below. Red Hat customers should consult the Red Hat advisory for the same ...

Announcing .NET Core, .NET Native and NuGet Updates in VS 2017 RC

January 30, 2017 Jan 30, 2017 01/30/17
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Updated (4/2017): See .NET Core Releases to learn about newer releases. We just released updates to the .NET Core SDK, .NET Native Tools and NuGet, all of which are included in Visual Studio 2017 RC. You can also install the .NET Core SDK for command-line use, on Windows, Mac and Linux. Please check out the ASP.NET blog to learn more about ...

.NET Core Image Processing

January 19, 2017 Jan 19, 2017 01/19/17
Bertrand Le Roy
Image processing, and in particular image resizing, is a common requirement for web applications. As such, I wanted to paint a panorama of the options that exist for .NET Core to process images. For each option, I'll give a code sample for image resizing, and I'll outline interesting features. I'll conclude with a comparison of the performance...

The week in .NET – On .NET with David Pine, PwdLess, Terraria

January 18, 2017 Jan 18, 2017 01/18/17
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – On .NET with Reed Copsey, Jr., Orchard Harvest, Ammy, Concurrency Visualizer, Eco. On .NET Last week, David Pine was on the show to talk about his magic mirror, a screen in a mirror, that can display useful information such as his schedule for the day, the weather forecast, and much more. ...

The week in .NET – On .NET with Reed Copsey, Jr., Orchard Harvest, Ammy, Concurrency Visualizer, Eco

January 10, 2017 Jan 10, 2017 01/10/17
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – On .NET with Glenn Versweyveld, Protobuf.NET, Arizona Sunshine. Starting this week, UWP links, which have been in the general .NET section until now, are getting their own section thanks to Michael Crump who graciously accepted to provide weekly contents along with Phillip Carter for F#, ...