Today, we are releasing the 3.4.3 RTM version of the NuGet Visual Studio 2015 extension and the Windows x86 commandline executable. We continue to heavily invest in improving the quality of NuGet scenarios in Visual Studio and commandline. The complete list of issues fixed in this version is available on GitHub. In this post, we will review the important changes in 3.4.3 release. 

Part 1 took an overview of the initial design of ASP.NET and how Microsoft reacted to the various changes in webdev. In Part II, we will now look at how those changes influenced the development of ASP.NET MVC and ended up transforming ASP.NET into a much more flexible framework composed of multiple libraries that solved different problems.

I’ve been building some ASP.NET Core apps as of late and had to dig into how Dependency Injection works there. After talking with Julie Lerman a bit on Twitter about it, I realized that there might be some confusing things about how it works in ASP.NET Core, so I’m hoping I can add some clarity in this post. 

Sometimes, in order to get rapid feedback, it’s useful to throw together a prototype that has literally nothing going on in the backend, but lets the user get a sense of how the application would flow. The problem, of course, is that once users see such a thing, they can’t always tell the difference between smoke and mirrors and the real thing. 

How do I create a new serverless project? How do I run and debug code locally? How do I install dependencies? How do I connect to third-party services? Where can I save connection strings? How do I customize the URL path? How can I deploy to the cloud? 

A minimal, UI-focused programming language for web designers. With uilang, you write your code just like plain English, straight into your HTML using a <code> element. uilang's logic relies on manipulating classes on HTML elements and using these classes in CSS to show, hide, animate and transform elements when a click occurs. This simple logic lets designers create most of the typical user interface behaviours: tabs, popovers, overlays, sliding menus, etc.  Demo

 This sample shows how to host the Edge Chakra JavaScript runtime in a non-IE application. The sample demonstrates creating the runtime, running scripts, creating host objects, handling callbacks, handling exceptions, debugging, and profiling. 

JS Is Weird
JavaScript is a great programming language, but thanks to the fact that its initial release was built in only ten days back in 1995, coupled with the fact that JS is backward-compatible, it's also a bit weird. It doesn't always behave the way you might think. In this quiz, you'll be shown 25 quirky expressions and will have to guess the output. Even if you're a JS developer, most of this syntax is probably, and hopefully, not something you use in your daily life. 

At Microsoft Build 2021 .NET MAUI Preview 4 was launched. This version is already pretty complete and starts to reflect what the end result is going to look like. In this video I will show you the new .NET MAUI template in Visual Studio 2019 and walk you through the Weather 21 demo app.