This week we’ve seen many interesting articles again, but we also had some great news too: .NET 5 Release Candidate one is out and available for testing! While we’re waiting for the full .NET 5 to be finalized, let’s take it slow and read some interesting articles by our favorite bloggers:
.NET and C#
- .NET Performance Optimisations Don’t Have to be Complex [www.stevejgordon.co.uk]
Another great article on performance optimization by Steve Gordon. Steve describes his thought process behind choosing the right thing to optimize and applying optimizations for the ToUrl method. - gRPC in ASP.NET Core – Ultimate Guide for Getting Started [www.codewithmukesh.com]
Mukesh Murugan gives an elaborate introduction to gRPC, explains what it is and how to use it in ASP.NET Core, and then builds some examples to demonstrate its application.
Worthy Reads
- Why use MediatR? 3 reasons why and 1 reason not [codeopinion.com]
- CSS isolation in Blazor [www.meziantou.net]
- Lazy load assemblies in a Blazor WebAssembly application [www.meziantou.net]
- Don’t get burned by missing await Calls for Async Code in ASP.NET Core Middleware [weblog.west-wind.com]
- Hosting Vue in ASP.NET Core: A Different Take [wildermuth.com]
- Animate A Mic Drop With Xamarin.Forms [khalidabuhakmeh.com]
- Dealing With Circular Dependency Injection References [dotnetcoretutorials.com]
- Blazor.Animate adds support for running animations manually [mikaelkoskinen.net]
- An introduction to deploying applications with Helm: Deploying ASP.NET Core applications to Kubernetes – Part 3 [andrewlock.net]
Live & Presentation
- Monsters Weekly 182 – Sending Dates from JavaScript to .NET [aspnetmonsters.com]
News & Updates
- Announcing .NET 5.0 RC 1 [devblogs.microsoft.com]
- The future of .NET Standard [devblogs.microsoft.com]
- ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Release Candidate 1 [devblogs.microsoft.com]
- Debug Your .NET Core Apps in WSL 2 with Visual Studio [devblogs.microsoft.com]
- Announcing Entity Framework Core (EFCore) 5.0 RC1 [devblogs.microsoft.com]
- .NET Framework September 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Update [devblogs.microsoft.com]
Other Interesting Articles
- What is the cloud? Explained [andrewlock.net]
- Create an Application with Web Template Studio [elanderson.net]
- Edit and Replay your network requests, direct from the browser [jonhilton.net]
- Just Vim It! Learning Vim For Fun and Profit [exceptionnotfound.net]
On Programming and Life
- Dear Programmers, You Are Not F****** Special [exceptionnotfound.net]
- Estimates Are Waste [ardalis.com]
- 6 Things I Wish I Knew BEFORE I Started Programming [simpleprogrammer.com]
Weekly Dose of Humor
- “Could you please fix this bug? It should only take a couple of minutes!” [thecodinglove.com]
- When the intern thinks he understood all the senior developer’s explanations [thecodinglove.com]
- When my fix works in all the environments except production [thecodinglove.com]
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Have a great weekend!
