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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...
Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – Feb. 23, 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...
The week in .NET – 2/23/2016
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET - 2/17/2016. On.NET Last week, Joe Duffy was on the show to talk about Midori. This week, we had to move the show to Friday at 4:00PM Pacific Time, but we’ll have the pleasure of speaking with Scott Hanselman. Package of the week: RestSharp Interacting with REST resources may in theory be just a matter of using standard HTTP, but in practice, there is still ceremony involved around serialization, and authentication. RestSharp is a library that facilitates REST interaction from .NET code. Here's how you'd query a hypothetical directory service for information a...
Porting MSBuild to .NET Core
This post was written by Daniel Plaisted, a software engineer on the .NET Team. It's an exciting time for .NET. With .NET Core, we're moving full speed ahead into an open source, cross-platform world. .NET Core provides a framework for your apps that is modern, app-local, cross-platform, and open source all the way down. However, .NET Core brings with it some changes compared to .NET Framework which means there may be some effort involved if you want to port existing .NET Framework code to run on .NET Core. In our recent Porting to .NET Core post, we discussed what types of code make sense to port to .NET Core,...
On .NET 2/19/2016 – Joe Duffy
On today's show, we're speaking with Joe Duffy about Midori. Joe’s posts about Midori are a great complement to this video.
On .NET 2/12/2016 – Aaron Stannard
Our guest for this week is Aaron Stannard, to talk about Akka.NET, the actor framework for .NET, and about Aaron's other projects NBench and DotNetty.