The week in .NET – 1/19/2016
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 1/12/2016.
On.NET
Last week, we had Jonathan Chambers on the show to talk about Unity. This week, we’ll have Don Syme, and we’ll talk about F#.
Package of the week #1: NATS client
Microservices and IoT both require distributed architectures where a large number of endpoints communicate fast and reliably. NATS is a popular high-performance cloud-based messaging system that is an excellent fit for such scenarios. The .NET client for NATS can publish over 3 million messages per second (and that’s in a VM, on a developer laptop).
Here’s how you’d send a simple object on the message bus, with a subject “foo”:
Other actors can asynchronously subscribe to the same subject and process objects:
You can read more about the NATS .NET client in NATS In Microsoft .NET.
Package of the week #2: VerbalExpressions
Regular expressions are hard to write, read, and debug: they’re a terse, but powerful DSL. VerbalExpressions is a library that makes it possible to write regular expressions using a more expressive syntax:
You are still using and running regular expressions, but your code is a lot easier to understand.
VS plugin of the week: Alive
Alive is a very cool Visual Studio extension that lets you visualize the effects of your code as you are typing it.
User group of the week: dotNet Miami
Cecil Phillip is talking at the dotNet Miami user group on Thursday, January 21 at 6:30PM about going beyond dependency injection with Autofac. The second talk of the night will be Camilio Sanchez on stress-free API integration.
.NET
- Introducing ASP.NET Core 1.0 and .NET Core 1.0 by Scott Hanselman.
- Learn Roslyn now: the Emit API by Josh Varty.
- NBench performance testing code throughput by Andrea Angella.
- Sébastien Ros built a nice little VS extension to help with the boilerplate associated with constructor dependency injection.
- How to optimize JSON.NET serialization performance by Tom DuPont.
- .NET method inlining and loops by Dmitry Orzhevsky.
ASP.NET
- What’s New with ASP.NET MVC 6 by Ugo Lattanzi (video)
- Using an ASP.NET module to debug async calls by Xing (Shin) Mao.
- Setting up ASP.NET v5 (vNext) to use JWT tokens (using OpenIddict) by Capesean. JWT Tokens are an open industry standard RFC 7519 method for representing claims securely between two parties.
- Configuring SQL Server for session state in MVC 6 by Mike Brind.
- Develop ReactJS + ASP.NET Web API apps in Visual Studio 2015 by Martijn Boland
- ASP.NET 5 MVC 6 file upload with Sql Server FileTable by Damien Bod
- Running the KestrelHttpServer on Linux with CoreCLR by Mike Hadlow.
F#
- The .NET Core Visual F# compiler can now bootstrap the open source F# compiler.
- Erico Sada added preliminary support for F# in the new dotnet CLI.
- Don Syme is working on merging part of the F# Compiler Service into the Visual F# compiler repo.
- Suave, a lightweight F# web development library, has reached v1.0.
- Rachel Reese discusses building functional microservices on the .NET Rocks podcast.
- Building Concurrent, Fault-tolerant, Scalable Applications in F# with Akka.NET, by Riccardo Terrell.
- A Developer’s Journey from OO to Functional, by Reid Evans.
- Designing with Capabilities, by Scott Wlaschin.
- Freeing Your Azure Data with F# Type Providers, by Isaac Abraham.
Check out F# Weekly for more great content from the F# community.
And this is it for this week!
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This week’s post (and future posts) also contains news I first read on ASP.NET’s community spotlight, on F# weekly, on ASP.NET Weekly, on Dirk Strauss’ The Daily Six Pack, and on Chris Alcock’s The Morning Brew.
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