ASP.NET Weekly - Issue #66

Ricardo talks about a few gotchas with the .NET Core’s built-in dependency injection (DI) library and also gives a few tips about use cases you may not have been aware of.

Background job processing can be incredibly helpful. Anything from kicking off a longer-running process, to regular process of things such as outbound emails, and everything in-between. This blog post introduces you to Hangfire, which makes these sort of scenarios easier.

ASP.NET Core 2.2 introduces a range of new features, one of which is Health Checks. Thomas Ardal introduces us to this new feature.

Gunnar Peipman describes his experiment on getting GPS coordinates from EXIF data in ASP.NET Core application and displaying the location on a map.

This is the second post in a series where Jason Gaylord discusses the development of a ViewComponent that displays a list of tweets on his website.

Rehan has compiled here a list of some of the video training resources available for learning programming and gives his impressions of using them.

Stepping away from the technical side for a moment, Rion Williams reminds us that there is more to life than coding.

Over the years, we’ve learned that sharing the evolution of Visual Studio, with you – our users – early and often helps us to deliver the best possible experience for our community.

We’ve just shipped the final 2.4.0 version of ASP.NET SignalR, the version of SignalR for System.Web and/or OWIN-based applications. As we mentioned in a previous post on the future of ASP.NET SignalR, 2.4.0 is a minor release which contains some small bug fixes and updates.

Starting with Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9, we’ve changed how the Visual Studio tooling for .NET consumes .NET Core SDKs. Prior to this change, installing a preview version of the .NET Core SDK would cause all Visual Studio tooling for .NET Core to use that SDK because it had a higher version.

Today, we are releasing the November 2018 Security and Quality Rollup. No new security fixes. See .NET Framework September 2018 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates.

My fianceè is currently enrolled on CS50 Introduction to Computer Science online. I’m a programmer and have been for around 5-6 years, I started with VB.NET since I first started learning, then progressed onto Web Development at a large agency for 4 years (PHP, JS, React) and I’m now back with VB.

All the programming tutorials and courses out there are for absolute beginners. I can’t bear watching a 15 min video that explains what scope is to get that 30 sec specific to c++ language. 2. For me, it helps to have an actual problem that I want to solve with the new language.

This doesn’t need to be just about the language itself, but the whole experience of developing with it, e.g., tooling, error messages, documentation, editor integration, &c.

The grizzled old guys who say that something “doesn’t suck” and mean it as high praise aren’t just understated cynics; if anything, they’re getting swept up in a wave of irrational exuberance.