.NET Weekly #35

Cloud & Web

1. Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.0.0-Preview1 and Updates for .NET Web Developers

2. What ASP.NET Core May Bring to the .NET Framework’s String Handling

3. Introducing Azure Functions Runtime preview

Tooling & Libraries

1. F# support in Rider – what’s there and what’s coming

2. Microsoft makes Visual Studio for Mac generally available

3. New distro’s coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store

Architecture & Databases

1. How Does Inversion of Control Really Work

2. IBM Open Sources Their API Microgateway

3. The Many Meanings of Event-Driven Architecture by Martin Fowler

4. A technical overview of Azure Cosmos DB

Programming Languages

1. C# Local Functions vs. Lambda Expressions

2. C# 7.0 and Beyond with Mads Torgersen

3. The Basics of Good T-SQL Coding Style

4. Module specifiers: what’s new with ES modules?

Runtime

1. Announcing .NET Core 2.0 Preview 1

2. Arrays and the CLR - a Very Special Relationship

3. Garbage collection and variable lifetime tracking

Other

1. Introducing Stack Overflow Trends

2. Announcing SyntaxNet - The World’s Most Accurate Parser Goes Open Source

3. Distributed Task Assignment With Failover

4. Java Platform Module System Public Review Fails to Pass