.NET Blog
Free. Cross-platform. Open source. A developer platform for building all your apps.
Latest posts
The week in .NET – 3/8/2016
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 3/1/2016. On.NET Last week, Rachel Reese was on the show to talk about her work with F# at Jet.com. This week, we'll talk performance with Nick Craver, who works for StackOverflow. Project of the week: Humanitarian Toolbox's allReady allReady is a project managed by the charity organization Humanitarian Toolbox that is designed to assist the management of community preparedness campaigns. It's being tested by the American Red Cross on a campaign to install smoke alarms within homes in the Chicago area. The project is built with ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework 7. ...
On .NET 3/3/2016 – Rachel Reese on F# at Jet.com
Our guest this week is Rachel Reese, to talk about Jet.com, and about how they use F# to build their micro-service architecture. Jet.com can be found at... https://jet.com/ Rachel's talk at fsharpConf 2016. Try F#: http://www.tryfsharp.org/ Rachel's Hanselminutes interview. I made a mistake near the end of the show, saying that I didn't know who we'll have next week. I do in fact know: we'll have Nick Craver, from Stack Overflow.
Announcing NuGet 3.4 RC
After several months of measuring, tuning, and testing, the NuGet team would like to announce version 3.4 RC of the NuGet clients for Visual Studio 2015 and the command-line. There were three main areas that the team focused on for this version: We think you'll find these updates a welcome change that improves your day-to-day interactions with NuGet packages. The complete list of issues fixed in this version is available on GitHub. In this post, we'll review the important updates in the 3.4-RC version. Visual Studio Performance The first thing that NuGet Visual Studio users should notice when using the N...
Announcing ASP.NET WebHooks Release Candidate 1
We are very excited to announce the availability of ASP.NET WebHooks Release Candidate 1. Thank you for all the positive feedback, suggestions, pull requests, and comments to date – they are essential to the process so keep them coming! < p>WebHooks provide a simple mechanism for sending event notifications across web applications and external services. For example, you can subscribe to receive a WebHook when someone sends money to your PayPal account, or when a message is posted to Slack, or a picture is posted to Instagram – the opportunities are endless! When subscribing, you provide a callback URI wh...
.NET Framework Compatibility Diagnostics
This post was written by Taylor Southwick, a software engineer on the .NET team. Introduction Updates to the .NET Framework 4 are delivered as highly-compatible in-place updates, which helps keep users' applications running on the latest and most secure versions of the .NET Framework. Some deviation from previous behavior has beeen seen when applications depend on specific behaviors that are not guaranteed or documented. Historically, these differences have been difficult to find, and so we are introducing the .NET Compatibility Diagnostics to help identify these changes during .NET version upgrades. .NET Compati...
fsharpConf 2016
Join us this Friday, March 4th on Channel 9 for the first ever fsharpConf! Tune in starting at 8:30am PST (16:30 GMT). Inspired by dotNetConf, fsharpConf is a free, online-only, day-long conference featuring an awesome lineup of talks from the F# community. Check out the fsharpConf site for more details, and follow @fsharpConf on Twitter. See you there! And if you miss it, the sessions will be recorded. :) Speakers & Talks
Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – March 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 5 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 re...
On .NET 2/26/2016 – Scott Hanselman
This week, our guest was Scott Hanselman. The topic was highly volatile and subject to complete improvisation.
The week in .NET – 3/1/2016
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 2/23/2016. On.NET Last week, we had a fun, slightly chaotic discussion with Scott Hanselman. This week, our guest is Rachel Reese, and we'll talk about Jet.com and F#. Package of the week: SkiaSharp Xamarin released a new 2D drawing API based on Google's powerful Skia library that powers Chrome, Firefox, and Android's graphic stack. SkiaSharp is a portable library with support for OS X, Android, iOS, Mono, and .NET Framework. Tool of the week: Docfx Since its inception, .NET has included the ability for developers to include documentation in the form of X...