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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.
On .NET 12/17/2015 – Miguel de Icaza
A weekly chat about current events and topics. This week, our guest is Miguel de Icaza, from Xamarin. Mono is on Gitter.
NuGet Targets for Project.Json now open source
A question that comes up from time to time is: how does Visual Studio 2015 add references when using project.json files in conjunction with a csproj without modifying the csproj file? This is a good question and demonstrates some of our strategy to help make NuGet easier to integrate into project systems without having to teach NuGet how to work with every project system. We've released this component as open source, and we'll show you where you can learn more about how it was built. There is a MSBuild task for csproj files that will examine the project.lock.json file and determine what assets should be added. T...
Accelerate your NuGet.Server
Since its inception, NuGet supports setting up custom package sources. There's the default NuGet Gallery, there's third-party NuGet hosting (see the NuGet Ecosystem), we can use local directories on our hard drive or a network UNC share (like ) and there's the NuGet.Server package that we can use to create our own NuGet server. Developers and teams have been using NuGet.Server to host and share their NuGet packages internally without exposing them publicly on nuget.org. It's easy to set up: install a NuGet package and we can work with our own NuGet server over HTTP(S). Some users went above and beyond in hostin...
Visual Studio keeps showing suggested extensions
In Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 we introduced a mechanism that would analyze a web project and suggest helpful Visual Studio extensions based on what it could find. For instance, if the project was using the Bootstrap CSS framework, it would suggest two very cool extensions specifically for working with Bootstrap. It works by showing a yellow bar at the top of the editor when an HTML document is being opened. The idea was to improve the user experience by suggesting extensions from the community that would make you more productive based on your current context. While some people found these suggestio...
The week in .NET – 1/12/2016
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET - 1/5/2016.On.NETLast week, we had Mads Torgersen on the show to talk about language design in general, and C# in particular. This week, we'll talk to Jonathan Chambers from the Unity 3D team about game engines, and using .NET to target iOS, Android, or even the Web. Please send me your questions ahead of time, or attend the show and ask them on the chat. Tune in on Thursday, at 10:00AM PST to view the show live!Package of the week #1: JSON.NET 8JSON.NET needs no introduction, as it is the recommended library to serialize and deserialize JSON in .NET. James Newton-Ki...