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Oct 22

Knox .NET

"Business logic code" is the golden grail of code isolation: code that says what the application does without depending on other systems or any persistent storage,

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MSDEVMTL

Le 22 octobre prochain, nous tiendrons la deuxième rencontre de l'année du groupe d'usagers Montreal Modern Excel and Power BI. Lors de cette rencontre, Dac Doan,

Oct 23

Vancouver Azure

What we'll do: Hands on workshop on Azure Pipelines, presented by Daniel Elliott. Azure Pipelines helps you implement a build, test, and deployment pipeline for any app.

Oct 23

Brisbane .NET User Group

Adding React Components to a Server Side Rendered ASP.NET App - Larene Le Gassick Want the benefits of being able to use React components in an ASP.NET MVC app?

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Roundup #22: OSS Library Guidance, .NET Core ThreadPool Starvation, VS2019 Roadmap, Know the Flow!

Here are the things that caught my eye this week.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.

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ASP.NET Core: Learning the Ropes, Part 1

Eric Vogel shows how to create a new ASP.NET Core Web application using Visual Studio 2017.

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.NET Framework October 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup

Today, we are releasing the October 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup.

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