We’ll focus on the extensibility points of the C# compiler to customize the behavior of async methods and task-like types. As result, we will be able to write linear, concise, and composable code with the possibility to have control over task scheduling. 

AutoMapper has been a popular library in the .NET open source community for a long time. As their site says:

AutoMapper is a simple little library built to solve a deceptively complex problem - getting rid of code that mapped one object to another. This type of code is rather dreary and boring to write, so why not invent a tool to do it for us? 

Today at .NET Conf 2019, we shared some exciting announcements for Xamarin and Visual Studio developers, including:

• XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms: Make changes to your XAML UI. See them reflected live on your emulator, simulator, or physical device.
• Xamarin Hot Restart: Test changes made to your app, including multi-file code edits, resources, and references, while using a much faster build and deploy cycle.
• iOS 13 and Android 10: Take advantage of the full power and performance of native platforms and APIs. Including iPadOS, dark mode, and foldable support. 

Familiarity with code generation tools is key for modern software engineers, and whether you know it or not, you’re probably already using one. In T4 Succinctly by Nick Harrison, you’ll learn what goes on behind the scenes during code generation with T4, Visual Studio’s built-in code generator. Then, use those principles to apply metadata to a template and transform it into source code in a variety of languages. 

NDC Conferences’s Videos

Introducing Roslyn
Async C# 5.0 - Patters For Real World Use
The Future of ASP.NET Part I
The Future of ASP.NET Part II

ADO.Net has a very tedious API out of the box, so Weasel alleviates that with quite a few extension methods to make your code a little quicker to write and hopefully much easier to read later as well. 

The latest version of the NetBeans IDE features a range of new tools for HTML5/JavaScript and supports mixed Java/C++ development. It is now available for download in beta.

You can learn how the .NET ecosystem works on Stackify. It consists of runtimes (.NET Framework, .NET Core and Mono for Xamarin), class libraries, and a common infrastructure (runtime tools and languages).  

I’ve been avoiding even thinking about the latest rev of Angular as every time I did look at it, I came away with a headache. It was weird and the docs were even weirder. I saw plenty of blog posts on the topic, but in general they dealt with one small slice of Angular 2 and were too confusing for me to grok. 

The anatomy of robust unit testing (with examples in C#)