The week in .NET – Let’s Encrypt Web App Renewer, Seattle CodeCamp 2017

Bertrand Le Roy August 29, 2017 Aug 29, 2017 08/29/17

Previous posts: Open-source project of the week: Let's Encrypt Azure Web App Renewer There's a growing consensus that all web sites should transition now to be encrypted with HTTPS. This comes at a cost, and with the friction associated with acquiring and renewing certificates. The problem of cost is now addressed by Let's Encrypt, but ...

The week in .NET – Project File Tools, Maira Wenzel, Mixed Reality in Miami, and links!

Bertrand Le Roy August 23, 2017 Aug 23, 2017 08/23/17

Previous posts: Visual Studio extension of the week: Project File Tools The Project File Tools Visual Studio extension provides package name and version IntelliSense, tooltips for packages, and more, when editing a .csproj file in Visual Studio. The extension just got updated. Get it from the Visual Studio Marketplace. ...

The week in .NET – .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, Entity Framework Core 2.0, Visual Studio 2017 Update 3, enterprise Entity Framework Core in Boston, and links!

Bertrand Le Roy August 15, 2017 Aug 15, 2017 08/15/17

Previous posts: .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, Entity Framework 2.0, and Visual Studio 2017 Update 3 launched! This is a week to celebrate for the .NET community, as .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, and Entity Framework 2.0 shipped! We're also getting an update to Visual Studio 2017 with lots of improvements for .NET Core developers. ...

The week in .NET – Rezoom.SQL, Protobuf in Orlando, and links!

Bertrand Le Roy August 8, 2017 Aug 8, 2017 08/8/17

Previous posts: Tool of the week: Rezoom.SQL Rezoom.SQL is an F# ORM for SQL databases. It integrates with the F# compiler via a generative type provider to statically typecheck its own dialect of SQL. It knows how to translate this SQL dialect to various backends. Currently it supports SQLite, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL. The type ...

The week in .NET – Nuke, Warden.NET, .NET in Bangalore, and links!

Bertrand Le Roy August 1, 2017 Aug 1, 2017 08/1/17

Previous posts: Tool of the week: Nuke Nuke is a cross-platform build automation system with C# DSL, much like Cake. It features auto-completion, refactoring, and navigation in all IDEs. Nuke avoids complexity, and integrates as a normal project. Package of the week: Warden.NET The System.Diagnostics.Process class while useful does ...

The week in .NET – MIST, F# in NYC, and links

Bertrand Le Roy July 26, 2017 Jul 26, 2017 07/26/17

Previous posts: Package of the week: MIST The INotifyPropertyChanged interface is essential to many applications such as Windows Forms or WPF data binding. Implementing it can however be fastidious, and involves quite a lot of boilerplate code. MIST simplifies this using IL weaving and a custom Visual Studio build task. With MIST, you can...

The week in .NET – Command Line Parser Library, .NET South East

Bertrand Le Roy July 18, 2017 Jul 18, 2017 07/18/17

Previous posts: Package of the week: Command Line Parser Library Command-line applications typically accept arguments and options, and expose a --help page describing them. Parsing those arguments and options is a repetitive task that .NET provides little help for out of the box, beyond the string[] args argument to main. Giacomo Stelluti...