We are pleased to announce the latest update of the Work Item Visualization extension. It's one of our first productivity extensions, enabling you to easily visualize work item relationships and traceability from requirements to code, to test cases, to releases.

This article shows how IdentityServer4 with Identity, a data Web API, and an Angular 2 SPA could be setup inside a single ASP.NET Core project. The application uses the OpenID Connect Implicit Flow with reference tokens to access the API. The Angular 2 application uses webpack to build.

Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the SmartBear blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you're there, have a look around and check out Collaborator, the code review tool. Let's say that you wanted a definitive explanation, once and for all, as to what constitutes code quality.

SessionStateModule is ASP.NET's default session-state handler which retrieves session data and writes it to the session-state store. It already operates asynchronously when acquiring the request state, but it doesn't support async read/write to the session-state store. In the .NET Framework 4.6.2 release, we introduced a new interface named ISessionStateModule to enable this scenario.

.NET Core in Action covers .NET Core and the .NET Standard for both .NET newbies and veterans

In this post, I'm going to make the case for a team standard

There are some incredible Xamarin mobile developer events happening throughout October, including more Xamarin Dev Days, making it easy to find a local C# or .NET community where you can learn all about how to build mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Windows in C# using Xamarin in Visual Studio.

In the beginning of the year I announced a .NET Port of GitHub's Scientist library. Since then I and several contributors from the community (kudos to them all!) have been hard at work getting this library to 1.0 status. Ok, maybe not that hard considering how long it's taken.

It's official. I'm a better programmer when I'm pairing with someone. Pair Programming (two people, one keyboard) has been around for at least 20+ years, if not much longer. Usually one person types while another person (paces around and) thinks. It is kind of a "driver and navigator" model.

the communication structure of an organization constrains the arrangement of code

The latests release of LazyCache, my open source cache library based on ObjectCache, makes it easy to cache the results of asynchronous or Task returning methods, so now it is simpler for you to speed up your application

Every now and then we hear of a business-critical app failing during major promotional or seasonal events such as holiday sales. More often than not it turns out that the app is not ready for the massive demand created on such occasions - causing the servers to fail and resulting in dissatisfied customers and lost opportunity.

Office 365 Project Time Report Mobile App getting started: Business Solutions MVP Paul Mather @pwmather VMWare VM Backup in DPM Setup: Cloud and Data Center Management MVP Steve Buchanan @buchatech Downgrading from SQL Server Enterprise to SQL Server Standard: Business Solutions MVP Jerry Weinstock @crminnovation A Busy Week At Microsoft Ignite: Office Servers and Services MVP...

So much to my surprise (honestly, I really didn't expect it), the weekly update I did last week was actually quite popular. People seem to like the short, casual form and it sounds like they're happy either sitting down and watching it or just listening to it in the background.

As of today, PowerShellGet is an open source project, and both the PowerShellGet and PackageManagement modules are available in the PowerShell Gallery

There are several great resources on the Internet about using the new Configuration and Options framework of ASP.NET Core - like this comprehensive post by Rick Strahl.

I needed this video of running an example app through the Desktop App Converter from start to finish and so I'm sharing it here too; For full details, go to MSDN. Feel free to borrow that video if you have a use for it at your own events etc.

I was battling the other day writing a custom DataAnnotations ValidationAttribute, where I needed access to a service class to perform the validation. The documentation on creating custom attributes is excellent, covering both server side and client side validation, but it doesn't mention this, presumably relatively common, requirement.

As outlined by Joe Duffy, LINQ introduces inefficiencies in the form of hidden allocations, from The 'premature optimization is evil' myth: Good question, who knows, probably only Jon Skeet can tell just by looking at the code!!

This post was written by Alina Popa, a software engineer on the .NET team. Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is a lightweight and extensible version of the Entity Framework (EF) data access technology which is cross-platform and supports multiple database providers. You can find a comparison of EF Core vs.

7 Scenarios on covering how to deploy ASP.NET, NancyFX and F# applications as Docker Containers

I was on another whirlwind trip back in July, this time to a bunch of spots in the US which included Chicago where Pluralsight has one of their offices. The last time I was there I'd recorded a "Play by Play" course which is video recorded rather than a screen

Below are three issues with workarounds that could help you

Middleware Madness: Site Maintenance In ASP.NET Core

Microsoft is the first to bring the sovereign Cloud to Germany. Built on a data trustee model, the Microsoft Cloud Germany enables customers in the European Union (EU) and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) to store and manage customer data in compliance with applicable German laws and regulations, as well as key international standards.