{"id":5081,"date":"2016-01-26T08:57:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T08:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/2016\/01\/26\/the-week-in-net-1252016\/"},"modified":"2021-09-30T12:18:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T19:18:47","slug":"the-week-in-net-1252016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/the-week-in-net-1252016\/","title":{"rendered":"The week in .NET – 1\/25\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 1\/19\/2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/a>On.NET<\/h2>\n

Last week, we chatted with Don Syme about the future of F#, and the community behind it<\/a>. This week, our guests are Brian Flannery and Colin Sullivan<\/a> from Apcera<\/a>. We’re going to talk about NATS<\/a>, a high performance messaging system with a great .NET client<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/a>Package of the week: ASP.NET MVC Boilerplate<\/h2>\n

ASP.NET MVC Boilerplate<\/a> is a great way to start a new modern and professional ASP.NET MVC application with all the bells and whistles that are expected today. A feature selection wizard lets you select which features you want on your web site from a huge list of options.<\/p>\n

\"ASP.NET<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/a>Tool of the week: SemanticMerge<\/h2>\n

Diffing and merging become a lot more difficult with complex refactorings. SemanticMerge<\/a> improves on that experience by building diffs based on a real understanding of the code. Instead of comparing text, it compares the parsed structure of the code. It already supports .NET, and JavaScript support is planned.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/a>User group of the week: New York ALT.NET Software Development Group<\/h2>\n

On Wednesday, January 27, Rachel Reese will be talking at the New York ALT.NET Software Development Group about how Jet does chaos testing on their microservices<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/a>.NET<\/h2>\n