Microsoft has launched a new 44-part series called Python for Beginners on YouTube, consisting of three- to four-minute lessons from two self-described geeks at Microsoft who love programming and teaching. 

Recently I have published this blog, which talks about configuring the ASP.NET 5 application in IIS.

After you set this up, if you run into any issues while accessing the website you can enable the inbuilt logging provided within the HTTPPlatform Handler. 

It has only been about a year since .NET Core 1.0 RC came out. We are now getting close to .NET Core 2.0. We have been playing with .NET Core since the betas and feel like the quality of the 1.0 runtime was very good. Our only complaint has really been odd Visual Studio behavior. We would expect that with 2.0, the adoption of .NET Core is likely to skyrocket. 

public class EmailSender
    {
        public void Send(string emailAddress)
        {
            Console.WriteLine($"an email was sent to {emailAddress}");
        }
    }

new EmailSender().Send("eng.younos1986@gmail.com")

Serialize(() => new EmailSender().Send("eng.younos1986@gmail.com"));

public void Serialize(Expression<Action> methodCall)
        {
            var callExpression = methodCall.Body as MethodCallExpression;

            var rawArguments = new object[callExpression.Arguments.Count];
            var i = 0;
            foreach (var argg in callExpression.Arguments)
            {
                rawArguments[i++] = Expression.Lambda(Expression.Convert(argg, argg.Type)).Compile().DynamicInvoke();
            }
            string typeName = string.Empty;
            var serializedArgumentsObject = rawArguments.ObjectToByteArray();              //todo: save this to db as method parameters  [Binary field]

            if (callExpression.Object != null)                                             //todo: save this to db as class name to be instanciated later {nvarchar field}
                typeName = callExpression.Object.Type.ToString();                          // instance methods
            else
                typeName = callExpression.Method.ReflectedType.ToString();                 // static methods

            var methodname = callExpression.Method.Name;                                   //todo: save this to db as method name to be called via reflection [nvarchar field]
            var deserializedArgumentsObject = serializedArgumentsObject.ByteArrayToObject();                                             //todo:  retrieve  serializedObject fro db and deserialize 
            var objInstance = GetInstance(typeName);                                       //todo:  retrieve  typeName fro db and deserialize 
            if (objInstance != null)
            {
                objInstance.GetType().GetMethod(methodname).Invoke(objInstance, (object[])deserializedArgumentsObject);
            }
        }  

var rawArguments = new object[callExpression.Arguments.Count];

var i = 0;
foreach (var argg in callExpression.Arguments)
{
    rawArguments[i++] = Expression.Lambda(Expression.Convert(argg, argg.Type)).Compile().DynamicInvoke();
}  

Expression.Lambda(Expression.Convert(argg, argg.Type)).Compile().DynamicInvoke();

if (callExpression.Object != null)                            
    typeName = callExpression.Object.Type.ToString();         
else
    typeName = callExpression.Method.ReflectedType.ToString();

var methodname = callExpression.Method.Name;

var methodname = callExpression.Method.Name;                                   
var deserializedArgumentsObject = serializedArgumentsObject.ByteArrayToObject();                           
var objInstance = GetInstance(typeName);                                        
if (objInstance != null)
{
    objInstance.GetType().GetMethod(methodname).Invoke(objInstance, (object[])deserializedArgumentsObject);
}

public object GetInstance(string strFullyQualifiedName)
        {
            Type type = Type.GetType(strFullyQualifiedName);
            if (type != null)
                return Activator.CreateInstance(type);

            foreach (var asm in AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies())
            {
                type = asm.GetType(strFullyQualifiedName);
                if (type != null)
                    return Activator.CreateInstance(type);
            }
            return null;
        }

Windows Package Manager will support every Windows 10 version since the Fall Creators Update (1709)! The Windows Package Manager will be delivered with the Desktop App Installer when we ship version 1.0. If you are building software to run on Windows 10 you will have a simple way for your customers to install your software on billions of machines. 

You'd be surprised at how many meetings this survey gets mentioned...and also how many product futures get decided on it. Vote for .net technologies here  

In the .NET community standup YouTube stream it was just confirmed that WPF maintenance has been outsourced to IDC [Microsoft India Development Center] where projects historically has gone to die. So no one left in Redmond really working on it. 

This project intends to provide a complete description and re-implementation of the WhatsApp Web API, which will eventually lead to a custom client. WhatsApp Web internally works using WebSockets; this project does as well.