Tips for the Week in .NET

WeekIn.NET.20161129.md

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.NET

• Open Source .NET – 2 years later by Matt Warren.
• Problems with AsParallel by Szymon Warda.
• Digging into the CoreCLR - Some bashing on the cost of hashing by Federico.

EF

• Entity Framework Core and Cross-Database Support by Shay Rojansky.
• Entity Framework Core – Unit Testing by Christian Nagel.

LLBLGen Pro v5.1 has been released, now with EF Core support and more.

R.I.P project.json – Out with the new, in with the old - https://www.stevejgordon.co.uk/project-json-replaced-by-csproj

Custom ModelBinding in ASP.NET MVC Core - https://www.stevejgordon.co.uk/html-encode-string-aspnet-core-model-binding

MailBody - Create transactional email with a fluent interface (.net)
https://github.com/doxakis/MailBody

Here is another cool library which makes the developers life easier.

The GongSolutions.WPF.DragDrop library is an easy to use drag'n'drop framework for WPF.

https://github.com/punker76/gong-wpf-dragdrop

DropSample01.gif

I wrote a post on Exploring Middleware as MVC Filters in ASP.NET Core 1.1

I also recommend Tim Seaward's article (part 3) on Pipelines - The journey continues to Secure Pipelines, via OpenSsl

http://thienn.com/dockerizing-real-world-aspnetcore-application
One single command docker run -d -p 5000:5000 simplcommerce/nightly-build, waiting for a couple of minutes for docker to pull the images and start the container. Then open your browser, type localhost:5000 and you got a shopping cart website written by aspnetcore up and running. Yahoo!!!!. In this blog post I will describe how I did it.