Hello and welcome to This Week in .NET — a lovingly curated collection of links relating to what’s new and exciting in the world of .NET. The complete list is tagged dotnetweekly. (Don’t forget to check out our weekly JavaScript roundup too!)
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Software
- Daria Dovzhikova announces a bug fix update to ReSharper Ultimate fixing over 100 issues.
- The Master Data Services Blog highlights the new features in SQL Server 2016 CTP2.
Information
- Rick Strahl talks about displaying text right to left in Angular and ASP.NET
- John Sonmez hands out advice on how to become a lead developer.
- Serkan Inci talks about using typescript for Visual Studio Online Extension.
- David Paquette continues his series looking at modernizing an ASP.NET application exploring an approach to load testing the application using the tooling in Visual Studio.
- Andrew Hall highlights some recent talks on the debugging features of Visual Studio and shares a look at some of the features provided in the IDE.
- Michael Crump looks at getting up and running with TypeScript and Github in the Visual Studio Code cross platform IDE on Mac OS X.
- Sam Basu is also exploring Visual Studio Code and shares his top 10 things about this IDE that he finds awesome!
- Dan Roberts takes a look at a project called DuoCode which allows you to write C# and have it converted to JavaScript using the Roslyn parsers.
- Derek Comartin takes a look at the ConfigR project which allows you to configure your application using C# code.
- Scott Hanselman takes a look at the use of the Visual Studio Docker extension which enables you to build Docker images for ASP.NET Web Application to deploy to Azure.
- Susan Ibach shares another Visual Studio tip, this time about including code in presentations and highlights an extension that makes this even easier.
- Rick Strahl talks about how to manage content in NuGet Packages.
- Jason Roberts has released a new free eBook called LINQ Succinctly.
- Tim Murphy talks about a few Azure Utilities you should have in your toolbox, unless you enjoy living without nice things…
Community
- Eric Lippert featured a ‘programmerchat’ reddit, Ask Me Anything on Friday, May 29th, be sure to read it!
I hope you enjoyed this week’s links. Which ones caught your attention?
Please PM me if you have anything of interest for the next issue, and happy reading! - cpradio