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The week in .NET – .NET Conf, Material Design in XAML Toolkit

June 27, 2017 Jun 27, 2017 06/27/17
Bertrand Le Roy
Previous posts: .NET Conf, September 19-21. Call for Content is Open! (image) .NET Conf is a free, 3 day virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft. Over the course of the three days developers have a wide selection of live sessions that feature speakers from the community and .NET product teams. ...

The week in .NET – .NET Architecture: Microservices & Containers, On .NET with Omer Raviv on OzCode, Sprache

June 20, 2017 Jun 20, 2017 06/20/17
Bertrand Le Roy
Previous posts: .NET Architecture – Microservices & Containers We recently added an Architecture Guidance page on the .NET Website. This new page pulls together architecture related resources for building different types of applications with .NET. We’ll be adding and updating content as it becomes available. The ...

The week in .NET – On .NET with Mattias Karlsson on Cake, Topshelf

June 14, 2017 Jun 14, 2017 06/14/17
Bertrand Le Roy
Previous posts: On .NET: Mattias Karlsson - Cake During the Microsoft Build conference, we recorded interviews with some of the attendees. Mattias Karlsson is a core contributor on Cake, the cross-platform build automation system with a C# DSL. Package of the week: Topshelf Topshelf is a framework for hosting ...

The week in .NET – On .NET with Brett Morrison, DateTime Extensions

June 6, 2017 Jun 6, 2017 06/6/17
Bertrand Le Roy
Previous posts: On .NET: Brett Morrison During the Build conference, I caught up with my friend Brett Morrison. Brett is an entrepreneur, executive, and hands-on developer, who has been using Microsoft products and .NET throughout his career. He founded startups, such as Onestop and ememories, and also worked for SpaceX...

The week in .NET – Open XML SDK, Adventure Time

May 30, 2017 May 30, 2017 05/30/17
Bertrand Le Roy
Previous posts: Package of the week: Open XML SDK The Open XML SDK provides open-source libraries for working with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. It supports scenarios such as high-performance generation of word-processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, high fidelity conversion of Word documents to HTML, ...

The week in .NET – Microsoft Build 2017, .NET Core 2.0 status, Happy birthday .NET with Eilon Lipton, On .NET with Alfonso García-Caro on Fable, Stanford CoreNLP

May 9, 2017 May 9, 2017 05/9/17
Bertrand Le Roy
Previous posts: Microsoft Build 2017 The Microsoft Build 2017 conference starts tomorrow in Seattle! You can watch the conference live starting at 8:00AM Pacific Time and get the scoop. .NET Core 2.0 status Only a few days to go before we reach zero bugs. Great progress has been made, but we are still 163 bugs away from ...

The week in .NET – .NET Architecture, .NET Core 2.0 status, Happy Birthday .NET with Matt Gertz, On .NET with Don Schenck on Red Hat, Fable

May 2, 2017 May 2, 2017 05/2/17
Bertrand Le Roy
Previous posts: .NET Architecture There’s a new .NET Architecture web site, where you’ll find practical advice, best practices, and sample applications to help you implement different application patterns using .NET. Check it out! .NET Core 2.0 status 2.0 bugs are mostly under control and we think we will hit our zero-...