Author: Scott Hanselman
Spend less time CD’ing around directories with the PowerShell Z shortcut
Everyone has a trick for moving around their computer faster. It might be a favorite shell, a series of aliases or shortcuts. I like using popd and pushd to […]
What would a cross-platform .NET UI Framework look like? Exploring Avalonia
Many years ago before WPF was the “Windows Presentation Foundation” and introduced XAML as a UI markup language for .NET, Windows, and more, there was a project codenamed “Avalon.” […]
A Functional Web with ASP.NET Core and F#’s Giraffe
I was watching Ody Mbegbu’s YouTube Channel – it’s filled with .NET Core and ASP.NET Tutorial Videos – and was checking out one in particular, “Getting Started with ASP.NET […]
The ASP.NET Interns ship their project – A basic blog template for .NET Core
The Visual Studio Tools team had some great interns this summer. Juliet Daniel, Lucas Isaza, and Uma Lakshminarayan have been working all summer and one of their projects was […]
Experiments in Open Source: Exploring vcr-sharp for Http record and playback
I’ve always said that reading source code is as important as write it – especially as part of the learning process. You learn a ton about how other coders […]
T4MVC and R4MVC – Roslyn code generators for ASP.NET Core tag helpers
I’ve always loved the T4 text generator within Visual Studio. If you are looking for T4 within Visual Studio 2017 you need to install the “Visual Studio extension development” […]
Experimental: Reducing the size of .NET Core applications with Mono's Linker
The .NET team has built a linker to reduce the size of .NET Core applications. It is built on top of the excellent and battle-tested mono linker. The Xamarin tools […]
Cloud Database? NoSQL? Nah, just use CSVs and CsvHelper
KISS – Keep it Simple, Stupid. While I don’t like calling people stupid, I do like to Keep it Super Simple! I was talking to Jeff Fritz on my team […]
Experimental: Reducing the size of .NET Core applications with Mono’s Linker
The .NET team has built a linker to reduce the size of .NET Core applications. It is built on top of the excellent and battle-tested mono linker. The Xamarin […]
Referencing .NET Standard Assemblies from both .NET Core and .NET Framework
I like getting great questions in email but I LOVE getting great questions in email with a complete and clear code repro (reproduction) that’s in a git somewhere. Then […]