In my last post I looked at the Microsoft.AspNetCore metapackage. In this post I take a look at  NetStandard.Library, what it contains and what it is for.

Almost 11 years after we created CodePlex, it’s time to say goodbye.  We launched CodePlex in 2006 because we, like others in the industry, saw a need for a great place to share software.  Over the years, we’ve seen a lot of amazing options come and go but at this point,

A first-hand look from the .NET engineering teams

There’s a new Rider EAP build available for download, and it’s full of changes, large and small, including Code Cleanup, new project and solution settings, VB.NET project templates, F# unit testing, an updated console, per-framework Solution Wide Analysis results, as … Continue reading →

С момента релиза .NET Core 1.0, который пришёлся на 27 июня 2016 года, прошёл год. За это время успел произойти ряд важных событий. Хочется подвести некоторые итоги. Понять, что же нам принесла новая инкарнация .NET? Что поменялось? Что стало лучше?

A first-hand look from the .NET engineering teams

We have a new Rider EAP build for you today. Highlights of this build include performance and memory consumption fixes, Unity support improvements, and F# Interactive, accompanied by a few dozens of bug fixes. Performance fixes Last week, we were … Continue reading →

Don't Code Tired - Jason Roberts on Software Development and .NET - When writing automated tests it is sometimes useful to isolate the thing(s) being tested from other

Today we are going to create small accounting web application which will consist of 4 extensions: Barebone, Incomes, Expenses, and Balance. UI and data model will be modular too.

A first-hand look from the .NET engineering teams

Two words you will very likely be used to hearing quite often within our community at the moment are “microservices” and “Docker”. Both are topics of great interest and are generating excitement for developers and architects. In this new series of blog posts I want to cover Docker, what it is, why it might be […]

Xamarin projects have supported .NET Standard Libraries in both Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio since their original release in order to enable developers to share code more easily. Consuming .NET Standard NuGets and Assemblies is completely seamless, and with Xamarin Studio 6.2, developers can create and open .NET Standard projects. What is .NET Standard? The …

The primary purpose of any caching mechanism is to improve performance of an application. As an ASP.NET developer you are probably aware that ASP.NET web forms as well as ASP.NET MVC could used Cache object to cache application data. This was often called server side data caching and was available as an inbuilt feature of the framework. Although ASP.NET Core doesn't have Cache object as such, you can implement in-memory caching quite easily. This article shows you how.

I've had a number of great guests on the podcast lately. One topic that has come up a number of times is the 'toy ...

There's a ton of cool new .NET Core open source projects lately, and I've very ...

Recently I’ve been using Cake to automate code deployments to Windows and Ubuntu devices. Since .NET Core 2 became available, I’ve been able to write C# applications to work with device…

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