The week in .NET - 2/23/2016

To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 2/17/2016.

On.NET

Last week, Joe Duffy was on the show to talk about Midori. This week, we had to move the show to Friday at 4:00PM Pacific Time, but we’ll have the pleasure of speaking with Scott Hanselman.

Package of the week: RestSharp

Interacting with REST resources may in theory be just a matter of using standard HTTP, but in practice, there is still ceremony involved around serialization, and authentication. RestSharp is a library that facilitates REST interaction from .NET code.

Here’s how you’d query a hypothetical directory service for information about employees:

User group of the week: Seattle Mobile .NET Developers

On Wednesday, February 24 at 6:00, our own Stacey Haffner will give an introduction to game programming with Unity at the Seattle Mobile .NET Developers meeting.

.NET

An update on ASP.NET Core and .NET Core by Jeffrey T. Fritz.
Porting MSBuild to .NET Core by Daniel Plaisted.
The evolution of interactive C# by Miguel de Icaza.
SQLite Code First (GitHub) by Marc Sallin is a library that enables EF code first to work with SQLite databases.
Async-Friendly Stack Trace (GitHub) by Eli Arbel.
Moq on .NET Core by Armen Shimoon.

ASP.NET

ASP.NET Core – 2300% More Requests Served Per Second by Ben Adams.
Getting ASP.NET Core running on Ubuntu by Michael Crook.
ASP.NET Core 1.0 – Create web application using Yeoman and Visual Studio Code by Mithun Pattankar.
How to send email from ASP.NET Core with MailKit by Steve Gordon.
Writing custom middleware in ASP.NET Core by Matthew P Jones.
View Components in ASP.NET Core by Mike Brind.
Developing ASP.NET apps in Docker containers by Steve Lasker.
The cost of routing by Ayende Rahien.
Two Razor view errors you might be doing too by Simone Chiaretta.

F#

fsharpConf 2016 is live on Channel 9 on March 4th. Check out the lineup of speakers!
Ionide and the State of F# Open Source Development, by Krzysztof Cieślak.
Building Concurrent, Fault-tolerant, Scalable Applications in F# Using Akka.NET, by Riccardo Terrell.
Domain Modeling with Types, by Ryan Riley.
Managing RabbitMQ Messages with F# and Akka.NET, by Vagif Abilov.
Benchmarking IEnumerables in F# – Seq.timed, by Lincoln Atkinson.
Types + Properties = Software: Designing with Types, by Mark Seemann.
F# Will Solve Your Everyday Problem Without a Headache, by Tomas Jansson.

Check out F# Weekly for more great content from the F# community.

Games

Unity 5.3.3 Release – Release Notes and Download Link
Intro to Shooter Mechanics – Live Training at 12:00 PST on 2/23 and 2/29, done by Matthew Schell from Unity.
Introduction to Scriptable Objects – Recorded Live Training done by Adam Buckner from Unity.

And this is it for this week!

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