Chris, Jess, and Todd chat about enterprise messaging patterns. Is it a good practice to put a message bus or a queue in between your web server and your middle tier services? Can message buses be overkill? What's the best way for your loosely-coupled containerized services to communicate with one another? Did Todd actually say that there's some benefits to building a monolith?

We asked all these questions, but you've got to listen to see how many of them we actually answered... or how many answers we actually got right.

Jess and Chris chat about not just using NuGet to download Microsoft's and other Open Source libraries from NuGet.org, but creating your own custom NuGet packages to help version and distribute your own components, without ever leaving your firewall!

Todd, Chris, and Jess chat about using Git in their day-to-day lives. Jess thinks it's the best thing since the CPU, but Todd thinks it's just the shiny new toy that's no better than TFS. Meanwhile, Chris thinks that GitFlow is the most overly-complicated process he's ever seen. What do you think?

Think Like (a) Git

 

Join our panel of experienced developers as they discuss their patterns, practices, methodologies, frameworks, tips and tricks that help them reach their maximum productivity. Whether it's solving customer problems (usually with code), contributing to or running open source projects, or even curating online content like video training courses, these panelists tell you their secrets of how the "get stuff done."

 

What does "DevOps" really mean when you're not up on stage demoing the latest DevOps product or working at Netflix, Etsy, or Facebook?  To find out, we ask Andy Schwam (@schwammy), a development manager, architect, and coder who has lived and breathed the concepts of "DevOps" in the real world... and lived to tell about it.

What's myth and what works?  What's hard and what's easy?  Andy takes us behind the scenes and tells us what it takes to transform an existing error-prone manual deployment to a highly-reliable, repeatable, and automated process.

Razor Pages is a brand new feature in .NET Core 2.0 that brings the Page Model back into .NET Core, providing developers a simple, effective, and above all, easy way to create dynamic web pages without having to get into the details of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) approach.

 

Or is it?

 

Join Jess, Todd, and Chris as they try to make sense of that one last .NET Core 2.0 feature that they left out in the last episode, Razor Pages.  What exactly is it?  Is it actually simple?  Is it really easier than using ASP.NET Core MVC?

 

Razor Pages - Official Documentation

Razor Pages - Getting Started with the Preview (Mike's DotNetting)

Razor Pages - Understanding Handler Methods (Mike's DotNetting)

Model-View-Presenter (MVP) Design Pattern

MVC or MVP Pattern - What's the Difference? (Todd's blog post)

In anticipation of the up-coming .NET Core 2.0 release (and the preview currently available), Todd, Jess, and Chris offer their answers to some of the frequently asked questions around .NET Core, such as:

Does .NET Core 2.0 have all the namespaces/APIs as .NET 4.6?

Does .NET Core support Visual Basic (VB.NET) yet?

What about SignalR - is that available?

What options do I have when running my ASP.NET Core applications?  Do I have to use IIS?  What about Docker?

What is .NET Standard (and should I care)?

What's the best IDE to use when building an ASP.NET Core application?

And, of course…

Should I start moving from .NET 4.6 to .NET Core now?  Is it ready for prime time?

 

Webinar courtesy of PostSharp: Who needs Visual Studio? A look at .NET Core on Linux

Build 2017 Sessions online

An overview of .NET Core, discussing the approach, features, and goals

Visual Basic in .NET Core announced with .NET Core 2.0 Preview 1

(It's there… search for "Visual Basic is now Supported" on the page)

Visual Studio 2017 Preview

(Includes tooling for Visual Basic in .NET Core and .NET Core 2.0 / ASP.NET Core 2.0)

ASP.NET Core SignalR at Build (video)

ASP.NET Core SignalR Repository

ASP.NET Core Roadmap

Socket.io - Real-Time Web in Node

Anders Hejlsberg: What's New In TypeScript (video)

(This turned out to be a good introduction to TypeScript and how it can help you in different ways, you can choose what you want to adopt)

Kestrel in production (internet facing) and using a reverse proxy

"If you expose your application to the Internet, you must use IIS, Nginx, or Apache as a reverse proxy server."

Matt Watson from Stackify has some plain english on this on the Stackify blog

(Thank you Matt!)

You will need the "ASP.NET Core Module" to run Kestrel behind IIS

Introducing .NET Standard (blog post)

.NET Standard documentation

Visual Studio for Mac

Join Jess, Todd, and Chris as they discuss "The Twelve-Factor App": a set of patterns and practices that are crucial to building modern, scalable, and "cloud-ready" applications.

The 12 Factors will help you build web applications that:

The Twelve-Factor App: The site that started it all

Beyond the Twelve-Factor App: (free eBook) The follow-up book that expands on the original 12 Factors and adds some great real-world advice

In this episode, Chris, Todd, and Jess discuss how awesome Visual Studio Code is while Todd defends the relevance of the full-blown Visual Studio "Classic Cadillac" IDE. What's the difference between an "IDE" and the new breed of powerful and extensible "text editors" such as Notepad++, Sublime Text, and now Visual Studio Code. Oh yeah, and Jess gets yet another reason to talk about how great TypeScript is, too.

Extending the Visual Studio IDE ("classic Cadillac")

Several episodes in to the ".NET Core RTM" series, Jess, Todd, and Chris finally get down to the specifics of how to use .NET Core. Starting with File > New Project all the way down to View Components, they talk about what it's like to actually use ASP.NET Core to develop real web applications.