News
What .NET Developers ought to know to start in 2017
Scott Hanselman kicks off 2017 with a "What .NET Developers Ought To Know" post. It's a great way to kick of a fresh year in the .NET ecosystem.
Process
How To Set Up an Internal NuGet Repository in PowerShell
Here's a simple way for an organization to stay in control of an ever-growing library of resources.
Code
Tuples: Quick Start Guide
A little reminder on the fallacies of Tuples since the beginning of C#, and how it is about to change... big time!
Explaining .NET Standard Like I'm Five
Ease the confusion with this simple overview of just what .Net standard actually is
Database
C# and .NET MongoDB Driver
If you're interested in getting started with MongoDB you should check out the excellent docs here. They detail MongoDB support for .NET 3.5, 4.0, 4.5 as well as .NET Core. Also included are links to presentations on using C# and Mongo.
Deploy
Build & deploy ASP.NET Core applications with Jenkins and Octopus Deploy
Ben Scobie shows us how we can deploy ASP.NET Core applications with Jenkins and Octopus Deploy .
Community Projects
Research papers in the .NET source
Matt Warren had collected a list of Research Papers in the .NET language, runtime and compiler source code.