At the ASP.NET Hackathon in Redmond, we replaced the Razor view engine with Pug. It started off as a joke but it kind of worked okay so we rolled with it.
ASP.NET Core 1.1, .NET Core 1.1, EF Core 1.1 and a multitude of other packages have all been released, but is now the time to adopt?
In this episode Monsters Dave and James talk about the release of ASP.NET 1.1 and how it will affect your projects. They mash on the tooling, upgrading a package and their experiences so far and hint at a few topics that are coming in future episodes.
For additional details on the release, be sure to check out these links:
- The ASP.NET Core 1.1 announcement
- The .NET Core 1.1 announcement
- The change manifest with all the updated packages
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If you're looking for content that will walk you through, step-by-step, as you transition to ASP.NET Core MVC, you're in for a treat.
In this episode of the Monsters, Jon Gallaway joins us live on set at Channel 9 studios to talk about the .NET Core community, the Community Standups and, of course, a series of free labs that you can dive into to embrace your inner Core and learn more about the future of MVC.
Check out the labs yourself on GitHub:
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Azure Functions have just gone "GA" and are a great way for you to truly leverage the promise of the cloud and it's ability to scale. In this episode of the Monsters, we have a special guest from the Functions team to break down some of the basics and help us wrap our heads around the Azure offering.
Join Chris Anderson and the ASP.NET Monsters at the Channel 9 studios as they chat about Azure Functions.
Check out these links:
Wildcard variables in C# are up for discussion for inclusion in C# 7 or some later version. They are a useful construct taken from functional languages like Haskel.
Are you ready for more Internationalization? Monster Dave talks about the Request Localization Middleware in ASP.NET Core and the three built in RequestCultureProviders.
Links:
Postman is a great tool for exercising HTTP endpoints but sometimes you need a tool you can run in a script or you don't have access to postman. In that case curl is your friend. In this episode Simon takes us through the basics of curl running on Ubuntu on Windows.
You can read more about curl at
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html
In today's episode, Monster Dave takes us through the IStringLocalizer and IViewLocalizer services used to support text localization in an ASP.NET Core MVC application.
Links:https://docs.asp.net/en/latest/fundamentals/localization.html
Be sure to check out the second episode in internationalization too: find it here.
You want to treat your CSS like versioned code but still be able to take advantage of updates to CSS frameworks and libraries like Bootstrap 4. How do you make that work?
In this episode Monster James shows us how to frame up your project in such a way that you can customize variables, colors, sizes and even select which components are included in your custom version of Bootstrap, all the while maintaining an upgrade path and building from Bootstrap source.
Here's some other episodes mentioned in the episode:
The default package manager for node is called npm. Apparently it doesn’t stand for Node Package Manager but it sure seems like it should. Npm brags that they have have hundreds of millions of downloads per month. However that includes download from build servers and from package restores and doesn’t map to the number of people typing
npm install tsc |