News
Top 10 Developer Videos in 2015
Code Channels brings us their top 10 developer videos for 2015. A couple of Microsoft keynotes made the list but all the videos are worth a watch.
Chocolatey Community Feed State of the Union
Chocolatey - the .NET package manager - has had a great 2015. Catch up on all the things they've been up to and how you can help with package moderation.
Code
How to work with indexers in C#
Indexers in C# allow us to use any object as an array. This article takes us through using indexers and how they differ from regular properties.
Running ASPNET 5 and .NET Core on Linux
Eventually these articles will be less novel but for now running ASP .NET on Linux is still pretty novel. This Code Project article walks you through how easy it is.
Exploring the new .NET "dotnet" Command Line Interface (CLI)
Scott Hanselman introduces us to the new .NET CLI which enables native cross platform compilation of .NET projects.
Async await with Web Forms over multiple postbacks
Are you using Web Forms and think your async / await options are limited to a single postback? This article shows how an asynchronous procedure can be started in one postback and completed in one of subsequent postbacks, so executing spans over multiple postacks.
Database
How to Really Use SQL Views
A simple example from Periscop Data about how we can use views to speed up database performance and even introduce a layer of security.
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