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The week in .NET – 1/12/2016

January 12, 2016 Jan 12, 2016 01/12/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET - 1/5/2016. On.NET Last week, we had Mads Torgersen on the show to talk about language design in general, and C# in particular. This week, we'll talk to Jonathan Chambers from the Unity 3D team about game engines, and using .NET to target iOS, Android, or even the Web. Please send me your ...

The week in .NET – 1/12/2016

January 12, 2016 Jan 12, 2016 01/12/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET - 1/5/2016.On.NETLast week, we had Mads Torgersen on the show to talk about language design in general, and C# in particular. This week, we'll talk to Jonathan Chambers from the Unity 3D team about game engines, and using .NET to target iOS, Android, or even the Web. Please send me your questions ...

Task runners in Visual Studio 2015

January 6, 2016 Jan 6, 2016 01/6/16
Mads Kristensen
(image) There are various kinds of tasks typically used by web developers as part of their workflow. Everything from bundling and minifying JavaScript files, to compiling LESS files into CSS and even running custom batch or PowerShell scripts. In a sense you can say that tasks are steps that needs to be performed to make the application ...

The week in .NET – 1/5/2016

January 5, 2016 Jan 5, 2016 01/5/16
Bertrand Le Roy
We're back for a new year of .NET! For this first week of 2016, we're off to a great start with two packages and lots of interesting posts. To read last week's post, see The week in .NET - 12/29/2015. On.NET This week on our On.NET live YouTube show, we'll speak with Mads Torgersen, probably mostly about C#. Please feel free to send me ...

The week in .NET – 1/5/2016

January 5, 2016 Jan 5, 2016 01/5/16
Bertrand Le Roy
We're back for a new year of .NET! For this first week of 2016, we're off to a great start with two packages and lots of interesting posts.To read last week's post, see The week in .NET - 12/29/2015.On.NETThis week on our On.NET live YouTube show, we'll speak with Mads Torgersen, probably mostly about C#. Please feel free to send me questions ...

New Year Updates to ASP.NET WebHooks Preview

December 31, 2015 Dec 31, 2015 12/31/15
Henrik F Nielsen
We just released a new update of ASP.NET WebHooks with a couple of interesting new features on the WebHooks sender side – that is, when you want to send WebHooks to others when some event happens – including: You can get the update from nuget.org by looking for the packages under Microsoft.AspNet.WebHooks.* with ‘preview’ ...

The week in .NET – 12/29/2015

December 29, 2015 Dec 29, 2015 12/29/15
Bertrand Le Roy
We have a short post this week, as many people are on vacation, including me. Unsurprisingly, no .NET user group has events for this week, so we'll skip the section this time. As always, this weekly post couldn't exist without community contributions, and I'd like to thank all those who sent links and tips. You can participate too. Did you ...

Using ASP.Net Module to Debug Async Calls

December 29, 2015 Dec 29, 2015 12/29/15
shmao-msft@hotmail.com
I had a web application that generously used async/await keywords. The application encountered a slow response possibly due to a pending backend database call. I attached a debugger to the application. There was, however, nothing running in the process (see Figure 1), which was expected due to the calls being async and the waiting threads ...

The week in .NET – 12/22/2015

December 22, 2015 Dec 22, 2015 12/22/15
Bertrand Le Roy
Last week, we had a great time with Miguel de Icaza on the first episode of our new live YouTube show On.NET. On future episodes of the show, we want to have guests who represent every facet of the .NET community. If there's somebody you'd like to see on the show, please let us know! We won't have a show this week or next week because of ...