As a C# developer—even with a great, active C# community—you may sometimes find yourself a little bit jealous. What if we could bring the JavaScript language and ecosystem also into the C# world? What if a C# developer could use JavaScript inside C#? Fret not! I’m thrilled to announce a new WinRT project I’ve created—ChakraBridge— which will allow you to get invited to the party like any web developers.

A comparison of Blazor and Angular when it comes to modern web development—a review of the pros and cons. Does Blazor stack up? 

A simple utility to execute a callback when a webfont loads.  Demo

This uses the CSS Font Loading Module when available (currently in Chrome 35+ and Opera 22+). When that isn’t available, it uses a very similar approach to the one used in the TypeKit Web Font Loader (which is currently 7.1KB GZIP).

Basically, it creates an element with a font stack including the web font and a default serif/sans-serif typeface. It then uses a test string and measures the dimensions of the element at a certain interval. When the dimensions are different than the default fallback fonts, the font is considered to have loaded successfully.

If you’d like a full polyfill for the CSS Font Loading Module, follow along with Bram Stein’s Font Loader. I believe the specification has changed since he launched this polyfill, but he’s working on an updated version. 

Support for the full HTTP/2 protocol. HTTP/2 enables a faster, more scalable, and more responsive web. 

- Use the tooling you know and love
- Build and Run anywhere
- Side-by-side deployments
- Go faster with .NET Core
- Become a part of the .NET story 

• .NET Core is the future of .NET: If you’ve already started working with .NET Core, that’s great! If you’re starting a new project, you should consider .NET Core.
• .NET Framework will continue to be supported: If you have any existing applications on .NET Framework (Windows-only), you can keep those on .NET Framework.
• .NET Releases will become more predictable: Starting with .NET 5.0, there will be 1 major release every year,  after which each even-numbered release (6.0, 8.0, etc) will come with LTS (Long-Term Support). 

Full Stack ASP.NET Core 2.0 MVC Forum Build

Topics Covered:
- Setting up a new ASP .NET Core 2.0 MVC web application with Identity user authentication in Visual Studio
- Separating Web, Services, and Data Access Layers in our solution
- Setting up tests with NUnit and .NET Core virtual in-memory database
- Debugging / Fixing bugs
- Implementing the MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern
- Dependency Injection of Services into our Controllers
- Using input forms to pass data from our Views to our Controllers
- Azure file storage for Profile Image uploads
- Azure SQL database hosting
- SQL Database seeding for starting the application with a super-user
- Code-first database migrations
- Writing SQL queries to inspect data in our database
- Deploying the application to Azure.
 

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