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

August 29, 2017 Aug 29, 2017 08/29/17
Bertrand Le Roy
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 – .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!

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

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

Welcome to the .NET Framework 4.7.1 Early Access!

August 7, 2017 Aug 7, 2017 08/7/17
Preeti Krishna - MSFT
Last Updated: 9/28/2017 Today, we are happy to share the .NET Framework 4.7.1 Early Access build with the Developer Pack. The .NET Framework 4.7.1 Developer Pack lets developers build applications that target the .NET Framework 4.7.1 by using Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio 2015 or other IDEs. This is a single package that bundles the .NET...

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

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

July 26, 2017 Jul 26, 2017 07/26/17
Bertrand Le Roy
Previous posts: Package of the week: MIST The 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 use simple auto-...