.NET

.NET is the free, open-source, cross-platform framework for building modern apps and powerful cloud services

→ dot.net, docs, GitHub

Learn

Quickstart

• Get started tutorials

Key components

• CoreCLR (Common Language Runtime) is the runtime for .NET Core. It includes the garbage collector, JIT compiler, primitive data types and low-level classes.

• Roslyn, .NET compiler, provides C# and Visual Basic languages with rich code analysis APIs. See GitHub.

• .NET CLI

Guides

• .NET Architecture Guides

  • .NET Microservices Architecture Guidance (Microservice architecture with ASP.NET Core May 08, 2017, dotnet-architecture/eShopOnContainers)

• .NET at Pivotal

Videos

• Learning videos

• Youtube channel

Ecosystem

.NET Foundation

→ dotnetfoundation.org

Open source libraries & tools

• dotnet/sourcelink

• spectreconsole/spectre.console

• nuke-build/nuke

• dotnet/format

  dotnet tool install -g dotnet-format

Recipes

Password hashing

• Password Hashing

• Hashing passwords in .NET Core with tips

• Encode and decode a string, with password and salt, in dotnet core

• Exploring the ASP.NET Core Identity PasswordHasher

• IPasswordHasher Interface

Code obfuscation

dotfuscator (overview)

dotfuscator is a tool, available in Community Edition, that can be installed from Visual Studio 2017.

Readings:

• From docs.microsoft.com:

  • ObfuscateAssemblyAttribute Class

  • Dotfuscator Community Edition (CE)

  • Install Dotfuscator Community Edition (CE)

• From preemptive.com:

  • Overview

  • Downloads

  • Building in the Cloud with Dotfuscator Community Edition

  • Getting started from VS 2017

  • Getting Started

• From marketplace.visualstudio.com:

  • Dotfuscator Community Edition Build Task

Decompile .NET Code tools

• ILSpy (icsharpcode/ILSpy)

• JustDecompile (telerik.com)

Package management

• FuGet

  • Scott Hansleman - NuGet's fancy older sibling FuGet gives you a whole new view of the .NET packaging ecosystem

• Nukeeper

  • Scott Hanselman - NuKeeper for automated NuGet Package Reference Updates on Build Servers

• Dependabot

  • Scott Hanselman - Dependabot for .NET Core dependency tracking in GitHub

• SourceLink

  • Scott Hanselman - Exploring .NET Core's SourceLink - Stepping into the Source Code of NuGet packages you don't own

Code analysis

• .NET API analyzer

• Overview of static code analysis for managed code in Visual Studio

• FxCop

• StyleCop

Performances

• BenchmarkDotNet (GitHub)

Local debugging

• Certificate management: Stackoverflow questions

Others

• App Metrics

• nuke

Additional readings

Blogs

• meziantou.net