4 Tips For Blazing Fast ASP.NET Core Applications

by bill-s, 2017-08-17T04:52:54.000Z

I’m a huge fan of ASP.NET Core. It’s a great iteration on the ASP.NET platform and it should be your default choice for any new web development. I’m also a big fan of apps that don’t take a week to load.

Akka.NET v1.3 is Now Available on .NET 4.5 and .NET Standard 1.6

by bill-s, 2017-08-21T06:36:56.000Z

Akka.NET Adds .NET Standard / .NET Core Support; Releases Akka.Persistence from Beta; and More

Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.0

by bill-s, 2017-08-17T04:52:47.000Z

Entity Framework (EF) Core is the lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework, the popular Object/Relational Mapping (O/RM) framework for .NET.

Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.0

by bill-s, 2017-08-17T04:52:50.000Z

The ASP.NET team is proud to announce general availability of ASP.NET Core 2.0.

Announcing .NET Core 2.0

by bill-s, 2017-08-21T06:36:54.000Z

.NET Core 2.0 is available today as a final release. You can start developing with it at the command line, in your favorite text editor, in Visual Studio 2017 15.3, Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio for Mac. It is ready for production workloads, on your own hardware or your favorite cloud, like Microsoft Azure.

Announcing .NET Standard 2.0

by bill-s, 2017-08-21T06:37:02.000Z

The .NET Standard 2.0 specification is now complete. It is supported in .NET Core 2.0, in the .NET Framework 4.6.1 and later versions, and in Visual Studio 15.3. You can start using .NET Standard 2.0 today.

Azure Functions Tools released for Visual Studio 2017 Update 3

by bill-s, 2017-08-21T06:36:57.000Z

We’re excited to announce that Azure Functions tools for Visual Studio are out of preview! The tools are now included in the Azure workload of Visual Studio 2017 Update 3. Just update your existing VS 2017 installation to Update 3–there’s no need to use the preview channel or manually install the Functions tooling extension.

.NET Core History

by bill-s, 2017-08-19T11:43:28.000Z

Explore the history of .Net Core with Keith Williams (@zogface), and learn how to successfully develop and deploy on it with minimal maneuverings. In this talk you'll get two years of professional .NET Core experience distilled down into one juicy, brain-oxygenating session.

Becoming a Freelance Developer and Taxes

by bill-s, 2017-08-19T11:46:20.000Z

Apologies to those who come to this blog looking for rants about the perils of global state or unit testing. Today, we talk taxes.

Scaling Azure Functions with Durable Functions

by bill-s, 2017-08-21T06:36:31.000Z

Serverless compute is the latest advancement in Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities in the cloud.

The Difference between String and StringBuilder in C#

by bill-s, 2017-08-17T07:25:54.000Z

Understanding the difference between the String type and StringBuilder class is really important particularly when you have a massive number of Strings (thousands or millions) to be assigned within a loop.

Using bearer tokens in ASP.NET Core

by bill-s, 2017-08-19T11:44:30.000Z

There are not much examples available about ASP.NET Core and acquiring access token.

Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.3 Released

by bill-s, 2017-08-21T06:37:00.000Z

Today we have several releases to talk about: there’s the release of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3, the release of .NET Core 2.0, and a release of Visual Studio for Mac version 7.1.