Tips for the Week in .NET

WeekIn.NET.20170404.md

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.NET

• Contributing to Open-Source - My first Roslyn pull request - Getting the environment ready by Maxime Rouiller.
• Installing Ubuntu 16.04 on a Raspberry Pi 3, installing .NET Core 2, and running a sample .NET Core 2 app by Jeremy Lindsay.

Azure

• Blue Green Deployments with Azure - The Simple way by Faesel Saeed.

Xamarin

Storing Settings in Xamarin.Forms - Matt Soucoup

Meetup
Global Azure Bootcamp 2017
Blog Post
Using Consul for Service Discovery with ASP.NET Core

RyuJIT and the never-ending ThreadAbortException - by Kevin Gosse and Christophe Nasarre

C#

"is" Patterns:
C# 7: Micro-Benchmarking the Three Ways to Cast Safely by Daniel Crabtree
C# 7: Is Operator Patterns - You won't need 'as' as often by Daniel Crabtree

Local Functions:
C# 7: Dissecting Local Functions to understand how they capture local variables by Daniel Crabtree
C# 7: Local Functions are Funcs too by Daniel Crabtree

Ref Returns & Ref Locals:
C# 7: Ref Returns, Ref Locals, and how to use them by Daniel Crabtree

Exception handling in .NET:
https://medium.com/@alexyakunin/try-catch-finally-throw-or-exception-handling-101-9f824136b21b by Alex Yakunin (disclaimer: me)

The article is mostly for beginners, though there are a few advanced topics (IDisposable, finalization, cost of exception handling, cost of finalization).

I wrote a couple of posts:

Adding favicons to your ASP.NET Core website with Real Favicon Generator
Getting started with ASP.NET Core

Troubleshooting An Error Occurred Starting the Application in ASP.NET Core on IIS

Step by step: Couchbase with .Net Core

Cheers!

Using ElasticSearch, Kibana, ASP.NET Core and Docker to Discover and Visualize data

F#: An interesting (if unsuccessful) look into predicting horse races via machine learning with F#