10 December 2019

20 links · Tuesday

.NET Conf: Focus on Xamarin

Watch .NET Conf: Focus on Xamarin, a free livestream event March 23, 2020 to learn all about how to build native mobile apps with C#. Mark your calendar!

System.Buffers - .NET

This article provides an overview of types that help read data that runs across multiple buffers. They're primarily used to support PipeReader objects.

dotnet/runtime

.NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, IoT, and desktop apps. - dotnet/runtime

.NET Design Review: GitHub Quick Reviews

00:00:00 - Approved: More cancellation overloads for HttpContent https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/576#issuecomment-564164757 00:14:05 - Needs Work: Option to allow HttpClient to follow HTTPS -) HTTP redirects https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/33…

Numberphile

Videos about numbers - it's that simple. Videos by Brady Haran

Talk to Transformer

See how a modern neural network completes your text. Type a custom snippet or try one of the examples. Learn more below.

Start PowerShell Faster With This One Trick

The title of this post is very tongue in cheek and a bit of a jab at click-bait posts, but I genuinely have a “trick” that will make starting up PowerShell faster and give you hours back throughout your development career.

Blazor: Getting Started

Learn how to build your first application in a hands-on way using Blazor, Microsoft's solution to use C# to write interactive web UIs without JavaScript.

We made Windows Server Core container images >40% smaller | .NET Blog

Over the past year, we’ve been working with the Windows Server team to make Windows Server Core container images a lot smaller. They are now 40% smaller! The Windows Server team has already published the new images in the Server Core Insider Docker repo,

Seeing Sharply

Technical blog of Microsoft certified developer James Hickey. Helping you reach the next step of your career as a software developer!

Hitting Parallel_Redo_Flow_Control waits with Availability Groups

In late June 2019, June 26th to be exact, we experienced an outage on Stack Overflow for about 11 minutes. It’s not unusual that we had an outage. They happen. Not often, but they do still happen. This one, however, was a little different because it was caused…

GC Perf Infrastructure - Part 1 | .NET Blog

We open sourced our new GC Perf Infrastructure! It’s now part of the dotnet performance repo. I’ve been meaning to write about it ‘cause some curious minds had been asking when they could use it after I blogged about it last time but didn’t get around to it ti…

How to generate random numbers using water bubbles

BubblesRNG - This was my final project I submitted as part of my reading the B.Sc. Computing and Information Systems degree at Goldsmith, University of London. The camera take snapshots of the water surface at regular intervals and detects bubbles (circles) d…