Getting Started with Dependency Injection in ASP.NET Core

by bill-s, 2016-07-30T09:13:51.000Z

I've lately been feeling my way around getting an actual, production-ready<a href="http://www.asp.net/core">ASP.NET Core</a> app developed, and one of the features I've really been digging (one of <a href="https://www.exceptionnotfound.net/tag/asp.net-core-1.0/">many</a>) is native support for Dependency Injection (DI). DI is huge in modern web apps, so making it the default for ASP.NET Core applications is, IMO, a big step forward for this framework.

Announcing .NET Framework 4.6.2

by bill-s, 2016-07-31T06:31:50.000Z

Today we are excited to announce the availability of the .NET Framework 4.6.2! Many of the changes are based on your feedback, including those submitted on UserVoice and Connect. Thanks for your continued help and engagement!

Entity Framework Core 1.1 Plans

by bill-s, 2016-07-30T09:13:11.000Z

Now that Entity Framework Core (EF Core) 1.0 is released, our team is beginning work on bug fixes and new features for the 1.1 release. Keep in mind that it’s early days for this release, we’re sharing our plans in order to be open, but there is a high chance things will evolve as we go.

Developer Productivity in VS 2015 and VS 15

by bill-s, 2016-07-30T09:12:37.000Z

In this episode, Robert is joined by <a href="https://twitter.com/kuhlenhuth">Kasey Uhlenhuth</a>, who shows off a number of features that increase your code writing productivity in the current and next versions of Visual Studio. Among the things she shows are the C# Interactive window, Quick Launch, Navigate To, IntellliSense improvements, refactorings and better feedback from the code editor.

Immutability vs Encapsulation

by bill-s, 2016-07-31T06:38:00.000Z

Using mutable objects for modeling application state makes tracking changes hard and incurs a sizable performance cost. Switching to immutable objects solves these problems, but brings new ones.

Node.js Tools 1.2 for Visual Studio 2015 released

by bill-s, 2016-07-30T09:12:00.000Z

What time is it?! Time to announce that our next stable release of <a href="https://aka.ms/ntvslatest">Node.js Tools 1.2 for Visual Studio</a> (NTVS) is available for download! NTVS 1.2 supports Visual Studio 2015 (including the free Visual Studio Community Edition and Express for Web). With <a href="https://www.visualstudio.com/features/node-js-vs">Node.js Tools for Visual Studio</a>, we strive to make it easier than ever to build enterprise-grade Node.js applications by supporting you at every stage of your application—from powerful code completions, to advanced debugging and profiling, to unit testing, cloud deployment, and much, much more.

Integration testing your ASP.NET Core middleware using TestServer

by bill-s, 2016-07-31T06:36:22.000Z

Lately I've been working on a piece of middleware that simplifies temporarily or permanently redirecting a URL from one path to another, whilst easily expressing the permanency of the redirect by sending the appropriate 301 or 302 HTTP Status Code to the browser.