.NET Weekly #5

Cloud & Web

1. Facebook announced that they have open sourced Yarn, a backwards-compatible client for the npm registry

2. ASP.NET Core and the Enterprise: Part 1 Frameworks

3. Dockerizing Nerd Dinner: Part 1, Running a Legacy ASP.NET App in a Windows Container

Tooling & Libraries

1. Faster Visual Studio “15” Startup

2. Shorter Solution Load Time in Visual Studio “15”

3. Reduced Out of Memory Crashes in Visual Studio “15”

4. Visual Studio Code 1.6.1

Architecture & Databases

1. RavenDB 3.5 Release Candidate 3 (and final) is out

2. Temporal Tables are generally available in Azure SQL Database

3. Implementation Strategies for the Repository Pattern with Entity Framework, Dapper, and Chain

Programming Languages

1. Microsoft Open-Sources P Language for Safe Async Event-Driven Programming

2. ES proposal: asynchronous iteration

Runtime

1. Fall cleaning: Optimizing V8 memory consumption

2. Timing the time it takes to parse time: Part II

3. More details on Span

4. Native Compilation – Why JIT when you can CodeGen!

Other

1. Google’s beautiful new free font covers 800+ languages