Software
- Azure Search is now generally available! - Ahmed Waheed highlights the general availability of Azure Search
- Steve Dower shares the latest beta release of Python Tools for Visual Studio.
- Susan Ibach shares a look at the Zen Coding Extension which makes writing HTML quicker and easier in Visual Studio.
- xUnit.NET 2.0 was released on March 16th after 2.5 years in the making and adds in more platform support and a pure NuGet distribution.
- Rich Lander announces the news that the MSBuild Engine is the latest project to be moved to an open source model on GitHub
Information
- Dru Sellers discusses the automated build and the various stages which make up the process and how the introduction of microservices is changing the needs.
- Simon Timms explores multi-factor authentication in ASP.NET applications
- Nikolaos Kantezelis shares his thoughts on the ASP.NET 5 and ASP.NET MVC 6 and what is new in those versions.
- Ayende discusses some of the benefits of hosting applications inside IIS, taking memory dumps of an IIS hosted application and a trick that stops the application from restarting when you do.
- Shawn Wildermuth continues his series looking at the new features of ASP.NET 5 by looking at the Entity Framework 7 and the newly re-engineered data access strategy.
- Matt Ellis discusses ReSharper’s .NET Core support in the latest EAP and takes a close look at the Core framework.
- Scott Hanselman ‘hacks’ his own virtual machine on Azure using a few useful techniques to re-obtain his admin status.
- Steve Wilkes resonates with naming things can be hard and that sometimes the patterns we implement making good starting points for names.
- Tom DuPont shares a useful tip to help increase the number of HTTP connections issued from .NET applications
- James Michael Hare dives into another C#/.NET Little Wonders this time focusing on Auto-property initialization in C# 6.
- Louie Bacaj talks about building a real-time dashboard using SingalR and .NET 4.5’s Web API libraries with AngularJS.
Conferences
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If you are going to Azure Bootcamp, make use of the information Ken Cenerelli posted through Jonathan Rozenblit’s blog featuring a list of free Microsoft Azure training resources.