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The week in .NET – On .NET with Reed Copsey, Jr., Orchard Harvest, Ammy, Concurrency Visualizer, Eco
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#, Stacey Haffner for gaming, and Dan Rigby for Xamarin. Orchard Harvest The Orchard CMS community will hold its yearly conference in New York City from February 21 to the 22. This week is the last one to benefit from early registration fees. I'll be there myself, to give a talk ...
Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup –January 3, 2017
This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams covering the accomplishments of the team on the new ASP.NET Core framework over the previous week. Join Scott Hanselman, Damian Edwards, Jon Galloway and an occasional guest or two discuss new features and ask for feedback on important decisions being made by the ASP.NET development teams. Each week the standup is hosted live on Google Hangouts and the team publishes the recorded video ...
The week in .NET – On .NET with Glenn Versweyveld, Protobuf.NET, Arizona Sunshine
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – On .NET with Steve Smith, Jint, Blue Effect. On .NET Last week, I published another short interview from the MVP Summit, this time with Glenn Versweyveld about Kliva, his Strava client for Windows: This week, I'll publish the last of our MVP Summit interviews, in which Reed Copsey, Jr. told me about the F# Software Foundation and its new programs. Next week, we'll resume our regular shows. Package of the week: Protobuf.NET Protocol Buffers, or Protobufs for short, are a serialization format invented by Google, that is popular for its performance and simplici...
Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup –December 13, 2016
This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams covering the accomplishments of the team on the new ASP.NET Core framework over the previous week. Join Scott Hanselman, Damian Edwards, Jon Galloway and an occasional guest or two discuss new features and ask for feedback on important decisions being made by the ASP.NET development teams. Each week the standup is hosted live on Google Hangouts and the team publishes the recorded video ...
The week in .NET – On .NET with Steve Smith, Jint, Blue Effect
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – .NET Core triage on On .NET, ShareX. Next week, the post will be a little late like this week. On .NET Last week, I published a short interview with Steve Smith that was shot during the MVP Summit. We talked about ASP.NET Core and its documentation, that Steve has been contributing to, about his consulting activity, and about his Kickstarter-funded software craftsmanship calendar. This week, I'll publish another MVP Summit short interview. Package of the week: Jint Jint is a Javascript interpreter for .NET which provides full ECMA 5.1 compliance (6.0 wor...
NuGet.Server 2.11.3 now available
Today we are releasing an update to the NuGet.Server package. The purpose of this update is to address a bug that enabled NuGet.Server to be installed on projects that target .NET Framework versions less than 4.6. Issue addressed Previously, there was a bug in NuGet.Server 2.11.2 (3257, 3406) that incorrectly considered the package to be compatible with projects that target .NET Framework prior to 4.6. Upon installing the package, the build would fail due to a missing NuGet.Server reference. With this update, users will not be able to install NuGet.Server with incompatible projects. Try it out! This update of...
The week in .NET – .NET Core triage on On .NET, ShareX
To read last week's post, see The Year in .NET – Visual Studio 2017 RC and .NET Core updated, On .NET with Stephen Cleary and Luis Valencia, Ulterius, Inferno, Bastion, LoGeek Night. I might not post next week, for reasons you'll surely understand, or I might do so one or two days late... Happy holidays! On .NET Last week, we had Karel Zikmund, Wes Haggard, and Immo Landwerth on the show to talk about .NET Core triage and project management: Because it's the holiday season, we won't have have a live show until next year, but I will publish more of the short interviews that we recorded at the MVP Summit, so ...
Code Style Configuration in the VS2017 RC Update
Visual Studio 2017 RC introduced code style enforcement and EditorConfig support. We are excited to announce that the update includes more code style rules and allows developers to configure code style via EditorConfig. What is EditorConfig? EditorConfig is an open source file format that helps developers configure and enforce formatting and code style conventions to achieve consistent, more readable codebases. EditorConfig files are easily checked into source control and are applied at repository and project levels. EditorConfig conventions override their equivalents in your personal settings, such that the c...
Announcing Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks V1 RTM
We are very happy to announce ASP.NET WebHooks V1 RTM making it easy to both send and receive WebHooks with ASP.NET. WebHooks provide a simple pub/sub model for wiring together Web APIs and services with your code. A WebHook can be used to get notified when a file has changed in Dropbox, a code change has been committed to GitHub, a payment has been initiated in PayPal, a card has been created in Trello, and much more -- the possibilities are endless! When subscribing, you provide a callback URI where you want to be notified. When an event occurs, an HTTP POST request is sent to your callback URI with informat...