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Announcing .NET Core 1.1 Preview 1
Check out what's coming in .NET Core 1.1 with this preview, available now.
The Changelog #224: .NET Core and Microsoft's Shift to Open Source with Bertrand Le Roy
Microsoft's Bertrand Le Roy joins The Changelog podcast to talk about all things .NET Core, their recent 1.0 release, where it's going, the open source around it, and Microsoft's shift towards more open source.
Code
Distributed Caching with nCache
This .NET Rocks! podcast features a talk on nCache, which is an open source distributed caching solution for .NET applications.
Introduction to ASP.NET Core 1.0 - Microsoft Virtual Academy
You've heard all about .NET Core and want to give it a try but where should you get started? Check out this Microsoft Virtual Academy session by Scott Hanselman and Maria Naggaga.
Polly 5.0 - a wider resilience framework!
Polly has joined the .NET Foundation and has published the first alpha of its 5.0 release which adds much more resilience policies to the already great resilience and transient-fault handling library.
Database
SQL Server is adapting, so must its users
Gavin Payne gives some highlights and a link to a new free ebook from Microsoft titled Data Science with Microsoft SQL Server 2016.
In Other News...
Hands-on with the Surface Studio, Microsoft’s first desktop computer
Microsoft's first desktop computer was announced this week and there's a lot to like about the Surface Studio