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Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – November 22, 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. This week the team hosted the standup on Aerial Spaces. Every week's episode is published on YouT...
The week in .NET – Cosmos on On.NET, GongSolutions.WPF.DragDrop, Transistor
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, EF Core 1.1 – Docker – Xenko. On .NET Last week, Chad Z. Hower, a.k.a. Kudzu was on the show to talk about Cosmos, a C# open source managed operating system: This week, we'll speak with Xavier Decoster and Maarten Balliauw about MyGet. The show is on Wednesday this week and begins at 10AM Pacific Time on YouTube. We'll take questions on the video's integrated chat. Package of the week: GongSolutions.WPF.DragDrop The GongSolutions.WPF.DragDrop library is an easy to use drag & drop framework for WPF. It supports MVVM, multi...
MVP Hackathon 2016: Cool Projects from Microsoft MVPs
Last week was the annual MVP Summit on Microsoft's Redmond campus. We laughed, we cried, we shared stories around the campfire, and we even made s'mores. Ok, I'm stretching it a bit about the last part, but we had a good time introducing the MVPs to some of the cool technologies you saw at Connect() yesterday, and some that are still in the works for 2017. As part of the MVP Summit event, we hosted a hackathon to explore some of the new features and allow attendees to write code along with Microsoft engineers and publish that content as an open source project. We shared the details of some of these projects w...
Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – November 1, 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 – .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, EF Core 1.1 – Docker – Xenko
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – Mitch Muenster – Stateless. .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, EF Core 1.1, VS for Mac Preview, VS 2017 RC, SQL Server on Linux, Tizen, Google joins .NET Foundation, and Microsoft becomes a Linux Foundation platinum member This week, at the Connect(); // 2016 event, we made a number of announcements, including Visual Studio 2017 RC, Visual Studio for Mac Preview, SQL Server on Linux Preview, .NET Core 1.1, Entity Framework Core 1.1, ASP.NET Core 1.1, Samsung adopts .NET in their Tizen OS, Google joins the .NET Foundation, and Microsoft becomes a Linux Foundation platinum m...
Client-side debugging of ASP.NET projects in Google Chrome
Updated 2017/1/3 - Setting to control script debugging added. See below. Visual Studio 2017 RC now supports client-side debugging of both JavaScript and TypeScript in Google Chrome. For years, it has been possible to debug both the backend .NET code and the client-side JavaScript code running in Internet Explorer at the same time. Unfortunately, the capability was limited solely to Internet Explorer. In Visual Studio 2017 RC that changes. You can now debug both JavaScript and TypeScript directly in Visual Studio when using Google Chrome as your browser of choice. All you should do is to select Chrome as your brow...
Announcing NuGet 4.0 RC
NuGet 4.0 RC for Visual Studio 2017 is focused on adding support for .NET Core scenarios, addressing key customer feedback and improving performance in a variety of scenarios. This release brings several improvements like support for PackageReference, NuGet commands as MSBuild targets, background package restore, and more. This post gives an overview of the new features and improvements available in NuGet 4.0 RC. Downloads NuGet.exe 4.0 RC will be available for download very soon. This blog post will be updated and we'll tweet about it at that time. NuGet Package Manager Extension in Visual Studio 2017 Start...
Announcing .NET Core Tools MSBuild “alpha”
We are excited to announce the first "alpha" release of the new MSBuild-based .NET Core Tools. You can try out the new .NET Core Tools in Visual Studio 2017 RC, Visual Studio for Mac, Visual Studio Code and at the commandline. The new Tools release can be used with both the .NET Core 1.0 and .NET Core 1.1 runtimes. When we started building .NET Core and ASP.NET Core it was important to have a project system that worked across Windows, Mac and Linux and worked in editors other than Visual Studio. The new project.json project format was created to facilitate this. Feedback from customers was they loved the new p...
Put a .NET Core App in a Container with the new Docker Tools for Visual Studio
By now hopefully you’ve heard the good news that we’ve added first class support for building and running .NET applications inside of Docker containers in Visual Studio 2017 RC. Visual Studio 2017 and Docker support building and running .NET applications using Windows containers (on Windows 10/Server 2016 only), and .NET Core applications on Linux containers, including the ability to publish and run Linux containers on Microsoft’s Azure App Service. Docker containers package an application with everything it needs to run: code, runtime, system tools, system libraries – anything you would install on a server. P...