News
World Backup Day is as good as any to back up your data
Happy World Backup Day! World Backup Day is as good as any to back up your data and don't forget to test your restores too.
Code
A Hitchhikers Guide to the CoreCLR Source Code
Just over 2 years ago Microsoft open-sourced the entire .NET framework. Matt Warren brings us a ‘Hitchhikers Guide’ to the source-code found in the CoreCLR GitHub repository.
C# 7.0 - Tuples To The Extreme!
Rion Williams takes us through using tuples in C# 7 with great code samples.
Tools
Getting to code faster with the redesigned Visual Studio 2017 Start Page
Channel 9 brings us a great video on the changes to the Visual Studio Start Page and how you can customize it to get started more quickly.
Debug
Run To Click Debugging in Visual Studio 2017
One of the coolest new productivity features in Visual Studio 2017 is Run To Click Debugging. You no longer need to set temporary breakpoints or step several times to execute your code and stop on the line you want. You now can get all the benefits of Run to Cursor (Ctrl+Shift+F10) without searching through the context menu or taking your hand off the mouse for a two handed shortcut combination.
Test
Open sourcing the MSTest Test Framework
Microsoft has announced that MS Test V2 is open sourced. Check out the repos at https://github.com/Microsoft/testfx andhttps://github.com/Microsoft/testfx-docs .