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On .NET 3/31/2016 – John Kemnetz – C# Extension for VS Code
John Kemnetz gives us a demo of the experimental support for debugging C# in VS Code. The blog post on experimental debugger support in VS Code Complete instructions to install and try out debugging Join the insiders program
WhereYouAt DemoBuild 2016: Building the Front-end
In my previous post, I went over the user interface and application requirements. Let’s quickly revisit the project requirements: Get Coordinates In this app, I am getting the user location with a button using an onclick event handler. In order to grab the user's coordinates, I used the Geolocation API . Let’s have a look at the code. Get location getlocation() function simply shows the user longitude and latitude every time you load the page. But, in this case, I needed the user's coordinates to put the pins on the map. To do this we created a simple a location web api that, we can ...
Announcing NuGet 3.4.2
We have listened to the feedback from the community, and we have tried our very best to turn around quickly and address this feedback. Our primary focus for 3.4.2 have been around improving the quality and performance of the product. The complete list of issues fixed in this version is available on GitHub. In this post, we'll review the important changes in 3.4.2 release. You can download the latest 3.4.2 VS extension and Windows x86 Commandline (RC) from here. Performance Improvements Changes We have fixed some issues that broke compatibility in some cases with Artifactory, Klondike and Nexus. We have...
WhereYouAt Demo from Build 2016: Demo Flow and UI
Where You At Demo was a cool little live demo that our team put together for Build 2016. This demo showed off ASP.NET Core applications running in any cloud. Here's the video of Scott's session from the beginning of this demo: Team & Responsibility Scott Hanselman : Demo visionary and presenter , Azure load balancer, and problem solver. Steve Lasker : Demo visionary, cloud deployment, containers, Visual Studio Team Services , and API Services Glenn Condron: API services and Azure Storage. Maria Naggaga (me): User Interface , HTML5 & JS, and API calls . Demo Vision Users visit the...
Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – April 5, 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. Within 30 minutes, 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 r...
The week in .NET – 4/5/2016
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 3/29/2016. On.NET Last week was a thrilling one for the .NET community, with lots of exciting announcements made at the Build conference. We decided to move the show to avoid being in direct competition with Build's live stream. On Monday, we recorded a show with John Kemnetz on the new experimental support for C# debugging in VS Code. We tried something a little different this time: instead of our usual one hour discussion, we did a short 20 minute live screencast. Let us know what you think in the comments. This week, Beth Massi and Maria Naggaga are taking ove...
Build 2016 Wrap up
We had an amazing time at the Build 2016 conference last week. We learned a lot from you our customers and we hope you learned a lot in our sessions. However, we don't want to limit the Build content to the folks that made it to San Francisco last week. Here's some of the great sessions that you can watch now from Channel 9 about ASP.NET, Web Development, and Open Source. Breakout Session Videos .NET Overview Introducing ASP.NET Core ASP.NET Core Deep Dive into MVC Deploying ASP.NET Core Applications Some sessions not specific to web topics, but interesting for web devel...
What’s New for C# and VB in Visual Studio
This week at Build 2016, we released Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 and Visual Studio “15” Preview. Both releases include many new language features that you can try today. It’s safe to install both versions of Visual Studio on the same machine so that you can check out all of the new features for yourself. New C# and VB features in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 In Visual Studio 2015 Update 2, you’ll notice that we’ve added some enhancements to previous features as well as added some new refactorings. The team focused on improving developer productivity by cutting down time, mouse-clicks, and keystrokes to make ...
.NET at Build 2016 – Open, Cross-platform and FREE
Wow! Could you imagine your ecosystem being this good? It is. Today, at Build 2016, we surprised a lot of people with some amazing announcements. If you were watching, you could tell that Scott Guthrie was having a lot of fun on stage. The announcements ranged from device to cloud, including a lot of open source and a lot of FREE! For .NET developers, now is a great time to look at the full breadth of options you have available using your existing skills. If you are not a .NET developer, it's time to look at .NET again! The .NET ecosystem includes tools, APIs and services for every kind of developer, building ev...