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The week in .NET – 1/25/2016

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET - 1/19/2016.On.NETLast week, we chatted with Don Syme about the future of F#, and the community behind it. This week, our guests are Brian Flannery and Colin Sullivan from Apcera. We're going to talk about NATS, a high performance messaging system with a great .NET client.Package of the week: ASP....

The week in .NET – 1/19/2016

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET - 1/12/2016. On.NET Last week, we had Jonathan Chambers on the show to talk about Unity. This week, we'll have Don Syme, and we'll talk about F#. Package of the week #1: NATS client Microservices and IoT both require distributed architectures where a large number of endpoints communicate fast ...

ASP.NET 5 is dead – Introducing ASP.NET Core 1.0 and .NET Core 1.0

This post originally appeared on Scott Hanselman's blog at: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ASPNET5IsDeadIntroducingASPNETCore10AndNETCore10.aspx Naming is hard. There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. - Phil Karlton It's very easy to armchair quarterback and say that "they should have ...

Visual Studio keeps showing suggested extensions

In Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 we introduced a mechanism that would analyze a web project and suggest helpful Visual Studio extensions based on what it could find. For instance, if the project was using the Bootstrap CSS framework, it would suggest two very cool extensions specifically for working with Bootstrap. (image)   It works ...