Porting existing code to .NET Core used to be quite hard because the available API set was very small. In .NET Core 2.0, we already made this much easier, thanks to .NET Standard 2.0. Today, we’re happy to announce that we made it even easier with the Windows Compatibility Pack, which provides access to an additional 20,000 APIs via a single NuGet package. 

If you stumble into this with no idea who I am or why I’m arrogant enough to think I’m qualified to potentially criticize the ASP.Net Core internals, I’m the primary author of both StructureMap (the IoC container) and an alternative “previous generation” OSS web development framework called FubuMVC that tackled a lot of the same problems that ASP.Net Core addresses now that were not part of older ASP.Net MVC or Web API. 

In this episode of Dev Superpowers, Ben Cull will take you through the latest, greatest and safest way to get your membership system up and running using ASP.NET Identity, OWIN and Dependency Injection.

Most traditional .NET applications are deployed as single units corresponding to an executable or a single web application running within a single IIS appdomain. This approach is the simplest deployment model and serves many internal and smaller public applications very well. However, even given this single unit of deployment, most non-trivial business applications benefit from some logical separation into several layers. 

.NET 8 RC2 is now available. This is our last release candidate. This release includes new NuGet package READMEs for .NET packages, simple CLI-based project evaluation for MSBuild, publishing containers to tar.gz archives, and Tensor Primitives for .NET. 

DNX, a Dot Net eXecution environment, contains all of the code that is required to bootstrap and run an application.

if (!Task.Run(() => client.IsAcceptAsync(response, secretkey)).Result)

if (!client.IsAcceptAsync(response, secretkey).GetAwaiter().GetResult())

using (var client = new HttpClient())

I’ve started looking at using MediatR for my domain events implementations. To that end, I created a quick sample project using ASP.NET Core 2.0. Overall things were pretty easy to get going. If you haven’t used MediatR before, or if you’re looking for a quick intro on how to set it up for ASP.NET Core, keep reading (if not, how did you get here? Was the title not clear?). 

Learn about functional data structures and their uses in this overview of Facebook's popular library for JavaScript: Immutable.js