The Week in .NET scratch pad

WeekIn.NET.md

• http://blog.leifbattermann.de/2015/11/23/functional-monadic-parsers-ported-to-c/
• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2015/11/24/what-s-new-in-visual-studio-update-1-for-net-managed-languages.aspx
• https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Three-Essential-Tips-for-Async
• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2015/12/03/guest-post-announcing-f-support-in-visual-studio-code-with-ionide.aspx

Hi there,

I saw your post on the .NET blog today about "the week in .net" and thought I'd share some of my projects:

Bogus: A fake data generator written in C# ported from faker.js. It's useful for seeding databases with fake data or creating POCO objects with fake data for testing purposes. Supports over 33 locales (and generates fake data in those languages).

• GitHub: https://github.com/bchavez/Bogus
• NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Bogus/
• faker.js: https://github.com/marak/Faker.js/

RethinkDb.Driver: A ReQL database driver for .NET written in C#; architecturally based on the "official" Java driver (releasing soon). RethinkDB is a new upcoming database engine for developing real-time applications. RethinkDB is usually compared to MongoDB. The RethinkDb.Driver for .NET supports Reactive Extensions, Change Feeds, async/await, and CoreCLR. With the addition of CoreCLR, RethinkDB makes a great database backend for ASP.NET 5 applications.

• GitHub: https://github.com/bchavez/RethinkDb.Driver
• NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/RethinkDb.Driver
• RethinkDB: http://rethinkdb.com
• ReQL Query Language: http://rethinkdb.com/api/javascript/

Blog post on ASP.NET 5 + RethinkDB:
http://www.khalidabuhakmeh.com/getting-started-with-rethinkdb-and-asp-net-5

The driver is in Alpha, but production ready. Soon as the "official" Java driver is released, I'll be taking off the "alpha" tag.

Cheers,
Brian

I think my recent blog post on ValueTask<T> could be relevant: On The Efficiency Of ValueTask.

But I also have older ones that may be interesting, for example: LongRunning Is Useless For Task.Run With async-await, LogicalOperationStack Is Broken With async-await, Surprising Contention In System.Threading.Timer, etc.

As you know there are some gaps in dnxcore50, specifically System.Net.Mail does not exist so we have not had a good way to send email until now in dnxcore50.
Good news on this front, as of yesterday MailKit/MimeKit now support dnxcore50 jstedfast/MailKit#212 and nugets are available.

I've got a few libraries that are "interesting". IMO. :)

Comparers - a fluent API that implements comparers (IComparer<T> and IEqualityComparer<T>) and comparable types (IComparable<T> / IEquatable<T>). Handles all the corner cases correctly (implementing GetHashCode, handling null, etc).

Connected Properties - allows properties to be dynamically "connected" to (most) non-dynamic objects. All corner cases around lifetime management are handled correctly, without the use of any background polling threads.

Calculated Properties - a platform-agnostic MVVM library for automatically raising NotifyPropertyChanged when necessary. Very similar to AngularJS computed observables.

Oh, and I forgot BrowserBoss, a library for scripting browsers. Works great with LINQPad, but can also be used in regular apps.

I guess I've missed this weeks release, but you might like this post I wrote: Open Source .NET – 1 year later

I recently recorded Intro to NuGet on Channel 9. Please check if that's relevant: Packaging your libraries with NuGet