A library for building cross-platform apps - ReactXP

by bill-s, 2017-04-07T23:03:21.000Z

The authors of React use the phrase “learn once, write anywhere”. With React and React Native, your web app can share most its logic with your iOS and Android apps, but the view layer needs to be implemented separately for each platform. We have taken this a step further and developed a thin cross-platform layer we call ReactXP.

Announcing a unified .NET reference experience on docs.microsoft.com | Microsoft Docs

by bill-s, 2017-04-07T23:03:19.000Z

Almost a year ago, we piloted the .NET Core reference documentation on docs.microsoft.com. Today we are happy to announce our unified .NET API reference experience.

ASP.NET Core - Feature Slices for ASP.NET Core MVC

by bill-s, 2017-04-07T23:03:26.000Z

Large Web apps require better organization than small ones. With large apps, the default organizational structure used by ASP.NET MVC (and Core MVC) starts to work against you. You can use two simple techniques to update your organizational approach and keep up with a growing application.

Essential .NET - Understanding C# foreach Internals and Custom Iterators with yield

by bill-s, 2017-04-07T23:05:54.000Z

This month I’m going to explore the internals of a core construct of C# that we all program with frequently—the foreach statement. Given an understanding of the foreach internal behavior, you can then explore implementing the foreach collection interfaces using the yield statement, as I’ll explain.

Announcing the .NET Framework 4.7

by bill-s, 2017-04-06T18:24:22.000Z

Today, we are announcing the release of the .NET Framework 4.7. It’s included in the Windows 10 Creators Update. We’ve added support for targeting the .NET Framework 4.7 in Visual Studio 2017, also updated today. The .NET Framework 4.7 will be released for additional Windows versions soon. We’ll make an announcement when we have the final date.

Introduction to Reactive Extensions (Rx.NET) - Xamarin Help

by bill-s, 2017-04-07T23:05:56.000Z

Reactive Extensions have been around for many years, and is available to most development environments. In this post, we are specifically going to look at Rx in terms of .NET development in Xamarin Forms.

Monitoring Azure Functions with the Portal and elmah.io

by bill-s, 2017-04-06T18:24:13.000Z

A guide to monitoring execution of Azure Functions, using the built-in tools provided by Microsoft. As a better alternative, you can use the power of elmah.io.

Introduction to Azure Service Fabric

by bill-s, 2017-04-07T23:03:10.000Z

Azure Service Fabric is the Microsoft microservices framework and this talk explains how to build applications that can be deployed in Azure or on your own infrastructure. Service fabric lets you deploy your own existing services or build them using the service fabric framework to take advantage of the built-in microservices features that service fabric provides.

.NET Architecture Guidance

by bill-s, 2017-04-07T23:03:16.000Z

Practical advice, best practices, and sample applications to help you implement different application patterns using .NET

Building Scalable and Resilient Web Apps with Microsoft Azure

by bill-s, 2017-04-07T23:03:13.000Z

Building web apps that are both scalable and resilient is challenging especially when you have an existing application that you need to change. This talk discusses scalability and resilience, the issues you could have and highlights some of the services within Azure that you can use to help.

.NET Futures: Multiple Inheritance

by bill-s, 2017-04-08T04:28:14.000Z

A controversial new proposal for .NET suggests the introduction of a limited form of multiple inheritance via abstract interfaces. This feature was inspired by Java’s default methods.

Secret Productivity Tips for Visual Studio 2017 - CodeProject

by bill-s, 2017-04-07T23:05:55.000Z

I've written a few blog posts thus far regarding Visual Studio 2017, so I thought I would take some time to discuss the features that were introduced in this latest version that might help your productivity, or that you just may find useful.

WPF - Custom UserControl datacontext binding gotcha

by bill-s, 2017-04-06T21:36:51.000Z

Creating custom user controls in WPF and as well as fully supporting MVVM with binding is a pretty straightforward process, but there are a couple of things that, at a first glance, look like they should work but they’re not. At least for me. One of those things is when you bind DataContext to code behind, or to Self.

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Server-Sent Events (SSE) Support for ASP.NET Core - DZone Web Dev

by bill-s, 2017-04-07T23:05:52.000Z

In this article, we look at how using Server-Sent Events (SSE) in our ASP.NET Core code, can help create better HTTP pipelines than web sockets.