News
Happy 25th Birthday, VB!
Visual Basic turns 25 this week. It's still hanging strong as the 31st most popular language on GitHub.
Announcing ASP.NET Core RC2
ASP.NET Core RC2 is released. This release represents the rebranding of ASP.NET 5 to ASP.NET Core.
Firefox tops Microsoft browser market share for first time
While less intense than in the past, the browser wars continue. Firefox is edging ahead of IE and Edge in these latest stats while Chrome dominates.
Releasing F# Language Documentation as Open-Source
Microsoft is releasing the F# language docs as open source. Further evidence that Microsoft is moving away from MSDN type documentation, these docs will be hosted on Github and will accept contributions.
Process
Add Using command for misspelled types using"fuzzy" matching
One reason to update to Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 - the Add Using command supports "fuzzy" matching.
Code
SnippetEssentials: An ultimate collection of more than 700 snippets for C#.
SnippetEssentials is a massive collection of C# snippets delivered as a Visual Studio extension.
Community Projects
Announcing MSBuild Structured Log: record and visualize your builds
We love structured logging at Litmus. Here is a tool to add structured logging to you build process via a MSBuild plugin.
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