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 and front end roundups too!)
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And now back to our normal scheduled broadcasting.
Software
- The Visual Studio Code team announced the release of their first update, 0.3.0, which adds support for command line arguments, improves multi-cursor, commenting, selection, indentation, and much more.
- Andrew Robertson highlights the news that Windows 10 will be released on July 29th.
Information
- Michael Crump continues his series of working with Visual Studio Code on OS X, this time looking at automatically compiling your TypeScript files.
- Gunnar Peipman talks about why we should avoid “fat” controllers.
- Jason Robery published a new ebook titled “Clean C#”.
- Devashish Salgaonkar talks about troubleshooting null reference exceptions in live ASP.NET applications.
- Derik Whittaker discusses merging of code and some of the things that make merging more difficult.
- Eric Lippert shares an article from 2004 on technical interviews and answers many of the readers questions. And check out his rerun from a 2009 article, it’s not magic.
- Nathan Gloyn looks at a number of practices which are often used to claim that a team is working in an agile way, when it isn’t agile. Be sure to check out his Agile is… article as well.
- James Michael Hare shares his solution to his latest ‘little puzzlers’ problem about validation of a Sudoku board.
- Jonathan Allen continues his series of posts looking at some of the proposals for future releases of C#, this time with Immutable Classes.
- Chris Love discusses the perception importance of the Time to First Byte when serving web content and looks at some techniques which can help improve that time.
- James Michael Hare adds to his Little Wonders series with Null Conditional Operator in C# 6
- ProgramFOX talks about how the bitwise operators work in C# and VB.NET
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