{"id":5393,"date":"2016-03-29T15:53:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T15:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/?p=5393"},"modified":"2021-09-30T12:04:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T19:04:10","slug":"the-week-in-net-3292016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/the-week-in-net-3292016\/","title":{"rendered":"The week in .NET – 3\/29\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET \u2013 3\/22\/2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Build conference<\/h2>\n

The Build conference<\/a> is this week! Stay tuned to this blog for announcements. You can find the list of sessions on Channel 9<\/a>, which is also where you’ll be able to watch the videos.<\/p>\n

On.NET<\/h2>\n

Last week on On .NET, we had Richard Kiene from Joyent<\/a> to talk about running .NET Core on the Joyent cloud. This week, we’ll speak with John Kemnetz<\/a> about the C# extension for VS Code. For the first time on the show, we’ll have some demos this week.<\/p>\n

Project of the week: Foundatio<\/h2>\n

Foundatio<\/a> is an open-source set of building blocks for loosely-coupled, distributed apps. It defines a set of interfaces for caching, queues, distributed locks, messaging, jobs, file storage, metrics, and logging. Each interface has in-memory, Redis, and Azure implementations.<\/p>\n

Here’s for example how you can enqueue and dequeue a simple work item:<\/p>\n