Have you ever wondered how scripts are inserted into your layout from a view, or how the debugger knows which line of code you are on when you're using partial views? 

In this episode, Monster James dives into the classes that are generated automatically behind the scenes and ultimately compiled at runtime to give your application the capabilities required to generate HTML for your client.

More reading:

• Read about the RazorPage class that your views inherit from
• See the code discussed in this episode in RazorTemplateEngine
• Check out the Monsters' book - ASP.NET Core Application Development

If you've used Visual Studio 2015 then you've used the Roslyn managed compiler. Roslyn is unlike most any other compiler in that it offers a simple approach to adding your own warnings and errors to the build pipeline. In this episode we'll build a simple analyser. Our American friends might know these as "Analyzers".

 

References

C# and Visual Basic - Use Roslyn to Write a Live Code Analyzer for Your API

Earlier in November, the ASP.NET Monsters had the opportunity to take part in the ASP.NET Core hackathon at the Microsoft MVP Summit. In past years, we have used the hackathon as an opportunity to spend some time working on GenFu. This year, we wanted to try something a little different.

In this episode, we explore our monstrous creation: Pugzor, an alternate view engine for MVC built with Pug and Node Services.

Related Links:

Episode #82 - Node Services

Pugzor on GitHub

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We love ASP.NET but we also love web stuff in general. In today's episode we take a quick look at building a simple service using Suave the F# web framework. 

 

References:

Suave Web Services

suave.io

Chiron

Suave is an F# library and web server which makes standing up web services a snap

Entity Framework Core makes it easy to write tests that execute against an in-memory store but sometimes we want to actually run our tests against a real relational database. In this episode, Monster Dave looks at how to create an integration test that runs against a real SQL Server database.

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GitHub Repo

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Announcing the Microsoft Press “ASP.NET Core Application Development” Book from the ASP.NET Monsters

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Through four complete sprints, this book takes you through every step needed to build brand new cross-platform web apps with ASP.NET Core, and make them available on the Internet. You won’t just master Microsoft’s revolutionary open source ASP.NET Core technology: you’ll learn how to integrate the immense power of MVC, Docker, Azure Web Apps, Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Entity Framework.

Working through the authors’ carefully designed sprints, you’ll start with a blank canvas, move through software architecture and design, adjusting to user feedback, recovering from mistakes, builds, testing, deployment, maintenance, refactoring, and more. Along the way, you’ll learn techniques for delivering state-of-the-art software to users more rapidly and repeatably than ever before.

I can't remember if NodeJS is still cool or if people are only using it ironically now as they port their applications to something else. In either case there are still a lot of great node modules out there which it would be great to access from our ASP.NET application. In this episode we'll look at Node Services an approach to call out to Node from inside an ASP.NET MVC Core controller. 

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Entity Framework Core makes it easy to write tests that execute against an in-memory store but sometimes we want to actually run our tests against a real relational database. In this post, we look at how to create an integration test that runs against a real SQL Server database.