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!)
Software
- Anthony Green announces the release of Roslyn 1.0 Release Candidate 2 which includes a Go-Live license that you can use in real projects.
- Ruben Rios shares a look at a new feature, Visual Studio’s Network Tool which can be found in the Performance and Diagnostics hub.
- Jeff Levinson shows you how to gain understanding and insights into your projects in Visual Studio Online with Power BI.
- Tomas Petricek announces the release of FsLab. FsLab is a cross-platform .NET and Mono package for doing data science. It has the ability to read data in a variety of formats, santising, and aligning data and building visualizations.
- The SQL Server Team announces plans for SQL Server 2016 Public Preview release this summer and are sharing some details of what we can expect from it.
- Valentin Stoychev and the team over at Telerik announce the 1.0.0 release of NativeScript after a 2 month preview. NativeScript permits you to develop native applications for iOS and Android in JavaScript, TypeScript, XML and CSS.
- Jonathan Allen highlights the release of Mono 4.0 which includes C# 6, but it also removes support for .NET 2.0, 3.5, and 4.0 as it adopts the use of the Microsoft Open Sourced code for some of its components.
Information
- Eric Lippert continues his series, Wizards and Warriors, with Part 3 which looks at how to implement your methods. Be sure to also check out Part 4 which explores the use of dynamic to implement double dispatch.
- James Michael Hare shares two more little puzzlers, this time a problem about representing numbers as Roman Numerals and another looking at the new indexer initializer syntax in C# 6.
- MSDN Magazine released its May 2015 edition which covers aspects of Visual Studio 2015, Windows 10, and the various frameworks announced/released at Build 2015.
- Scott Hanselman takes a look at installing Windows 10 for IoT which was released last week at Build and all on top of a Raspberry Pi 2 device!
- Jon Skeet shares a catalog of the various questions and problems people encounter when trying to parse date/time values.
- K. Scott Allen returns to Iterators in ECMAScript 2015 looking at the power of the Yield Keyword.
- Matt Ellis shares a look at the support for C# 6 features in ReSharper 9.1.
- John Kemnetz shares the steps required to get Fiddler to intercept the network traffic of the Android Emulator for Visual Studio, allowing you to monitor it better.
- Henrik Warne discusses the thought that Great Programmers write Debuggable Code. Be sure to also read the comments on this one, as the discussion was interesting.
Community
- Jake Ginnivan is looking for someone to take over the VSTOContrib package, which makes building Office Addins more pleasurable by letting you use practices such as MVVM and DI/IoC.
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