Understanding and using Unit Tests correctly are important for your ASP.NET Core Web API solutionsLearning about and using Mock data for your unit testing will allow you to have stable testing scenariosCreating Mock Data projects in .NET Core 2.1 for…
Web developers: Microsoft Blazor lets you build native iOS, Android apps in C#, .NET
Microsoft wants .NET developers to use its new experimental Blazor toolkit for building web apps to create native iOS and Android apps in C#. Microsoft this week announced Experimental Mobile Blazor Bindings for Blazor, a feature of ASP.NET that allows…
.NET Core and .NET Standard: What Is the Difference?
Microsoft has just announced .NET Core 2.0, but confusion still exists among developers as to the differences between .NET Core, .NET Standard, Xamarin, and the .NET Framework The .NET Framework is used for building desktop applications and ASP.NET applications running…
Microsoft to Consolidate .NET Repositories on GitHub
Microsoft has announced they will transform their fine-grained repository structure for .NET Core to consolidate a number of foundational .NET Core repositories, including dotnet/coreclr and dotnet/corefx. As Microsoft engineer Stephen Toub explains, the original decision to keep separate repositories was…
Blazor WebAssembly Preview – Full-Stack C# Development for Web Applications
Microsoft has released the 3.2.0 Preview 1 of Blazor WebAssembly, which adds support for a SignalR client, simplified startup and improved download size. Blazor is a framework for building web applications using C#, HTML and CSS. The C# code is…
COVID-19 Delays Unifying .NET 5 Features
.NET 5 will still ship this November, but it won't have all the unifying "just one .NET going forward" functionality that Microsoft originally planned because of delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Some features originally planned for .NET 5 in…
Announcing AWS Lambda support for .NET Core 3.1
New features of .NET Core 3.1 .NET Core 3.1 brings many new runtime features to Lambda including C# 8.0 and F# 4.7 support, .NET Standard 2.1 support, new JSON serializer, and a new ReadyToRun feature for ahead-of-time compilation. There are also…
Programming for .NET Core: A Beginner’s Walkthrough
Since its first appearance in 2002, the .NET framework has been a major success for Windows. Along the way, it spawned the .NET Compact Framework on Windows CE, as well as the .NET Micro Framework (targeted at embedded devices with…
Interview with Scott Hunter on .NET Core 3.0
Key Takeaways .NET Core 3 brings many new things to .NET Core. The new version will include C# 8, WinForms, and Entity Framework 6..NET Core 3 will specifically target microservices and be designed for building cloud-native applications.Developers will be able…
5 Reasons to Use .NET for your Next IoT Project
Roughly 10 years ago, when the Internet of Things (IoT) was in its infancy, only a small number of enthusiasts were exploring IoT development. Today, people are increasingly interested in IoT; some build their own IoT devices to use at…