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The week in .NET – 1/25/2016
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET - 1/19/2016.On.NETLast week, we chatted with Don Syme about the future of F#, and the community behind it. This week, our guests are Brian Flannery and Colin Sullivan from Apcera. We're going to talk about NATS, a high performance messaging system with a great .NET client.Package of the week: ASP.NET MVC BoilerplateASP.NET MVC Boilerplate is a great way to start a new modern and professional ASP.NET MVC application with all the bells and whistles that are expected today. A feature selection wizard lets you select which features you want on your web site from a huge l...
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.1 is available on Windows Update and WSUS
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. We are happy to announce that the .NET Framework 4.6.1 and its language packs are now available on Windows Update (WU) and WSUS for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2012 R2. An offline installer is available here for Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows Server 2012. Additionally, the .NET Framework 4.6.1 is included in the Windows 10 November Update for Windows 10 computers. This update is available in the Windows Update applet within the Control Panel. You may need to use the Check for updates feature from within the Wind...
NuGet ContentFiles Demystified
Updated - Feb 26, 2015: Thanks to Jared Barneck for some suggested edits to add some steps to the sample NuGet creation process In NuGet 3.3, the feature was introduced to support project.json managed projects and packages that are indirectly referenced in a project. This was an important change because it brings the ability to deliver static files, .pp file transforms, and language specific code into a project. In this post, we'll explore how to make use of this feature and show some samples of how to make the most of it in your projects. Definition Let's start with a quick definition. ContentFiles in NuGet ...
On .NET 1/21/2016 – F# with Don Syme
This week, we're happy to have Don Syme on the show to talk about F#.
The week in .NET – 1/19/2016
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET - 1/12/2016. On.NET Last week, we had Jonathan Chambers on the show to talk about Unity. This week, we'll have Don Syme, and we'll talk about F#. Package of the week #1: NATS client Microservices and IoT both require distributed architectures where a large number of endpoints communicate fast and reliably. NATS is a popular high-performance cloud-based messaging system that is an excellent fit for such scenarios. The .NET client for NATS can publish over 3 million messages per second (and that's in a VM, on a developer laptop). Here's how you'd send a simple o...
ASP.NET 5 is dead – Introducing ASP.NET Core 1.0 and .NET Core 1.0
This post originally appeared on Scott Hanselman's blog at: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ASPNET5IsDeadIntroducingASPNETCore10AndNETCore10.aspx Naming is hard. There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. - Phil Karlton It's very easy to armchair quarterback and say that "they should have named it Foo and it would be easy" but very often there's many players involved in naming things. ASP.NET is a good 'brand' that's been around for 15 years or so. ASP.NET 4.6 is a supported and released product that you can get and use now from http://get.asp.net. However, nam...
On .NET 1/14/2016 – Unity 3D with Jonathan Chanbers
Unity is a very popular development platform for multiplatform 2D and 3D games. In this episode, we speak with Jonathan Chambers about what's next for Unity.
On .NET 1/7/2016 – Mads Torgersen
A weekly chat about .NET. This week, our guest Mads Torgersen, Program Manager for the C# language, spouts spoken words at the camera with us.
On .NET 1/7/2016 – Mads Torgersen
A weekly chat about .NET. This week, our guest Mads Torgersen, Program Manager for the C# language, spouts spoken words at the camera with us.