Roundup

Here are the things that caught my eye this week.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Building a .NET IDE with JetBrains Rider Before we get into the technology and architecture of Rider, we must look at where this IDE came from. As far back as 2004, JetBrains was looking at a stand-alone application for the Visual Studio add-in ReSharper. It was never released, but a fully functional prototype was around at that time. Link: https://www.codemag.com/Article/1811091/Building-a-.NET-IDE-with-JetBrains-Rider   Async Guidance Asynchronous programming has been around for several years… Read More »Roundup #23: Building Rider, Async Guidance and Mistakes, Local NuGet Cache

Here are the things that caught my eye this week.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Open-source library guidance This guidance provides recommendations for developers to create high-quality .NET libraries. This documentation focuses on the what and the why when building a .NET library, not the how. The issue of strong naming is address and actual guidance is actually in the docs now. Link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/library-guidance/ Diagnosing .NET Core ThreadPool Starvation This article is worth a read if you have A service written in .NET (and in particular .NET ASP.NET Core) Its ability… Read More »Roundup #22: OSS Library Guidance, .NET Core ThreadPool Starvation, VS2019 Roadmap, Know the Flow!

Here are the things that caught my eye this week.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Note: I was away last week, hence no roundup.  This week is a bit of catch up. How Microsoft rewrote its C# compiler in C# and made it open source Roslyn is the codename-that-stuck for the open-source compiler for C# and Visual Basic.NET. Here’s how it started in the deepest darkness of last decade’s corporate Microsoft, and became an open source, cross-platform, public language engine for all things C# (and VB,… Read More »Roundup #21: Roslyn, .NET Updates, IMiddleware, Warp, DDD