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

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