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Roundup #47: Elastic APM, Miguel de Icaza, Microsoft.FeatureManagement, .NET Core 3 Progress

Here are the things that caught my eye recently in .NET.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Elastic APM .NET Agent beta Released We are proud to announce the beta release of the Elastic APM .NET agent! The version number of this release is 1.0.0-beta1. Back in February we announced the alpha release of the .NET APM agent. We received very positive feedback from the community, and we managed to attract lots of users already in this very early stage. Our base NuGet package reached around 20,000 downloads. Link: https://www.elastic.co/blog/elastic-apm-dot-net-agent-beta-released Careers Behind the… Read More »Roundup #47: Elastic APM, Miguel de Icaza, Microsoft.FeatureManagement, .NET Core 3 Progress

Roundup #43: .NET 5, gRPC, .NET Core 3 Perf, App Service Dashboard, Interface Default Implementation

I was away while Microsoft BUILD happened last week. After catching up, here are the things that caught my eye this week in .NET.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Introducing .NET 5 Today, we’re announcing that the next release after .NET Core 3.0 will be .NET 5. This will be the next big release in the .NET family. There will be just one .NET going forward, and you will be able to use it to target Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, tvOS, watchOS and WebAssembly and more.… Read More »Roundup #43: .NET 5, gRPC, .NET Core 3 Perf, App Service Dashboard, Interface Default Implementation

Using AWS Parameter Store for .NET Core Configuration

One of the aspects I love about .NET Core is the new configuration and options pattern. In a continuation from my last post on using AWS Parameter Store for Data Protection keys, you can imagine it is possible to use Parameter Store for .NET Core Configuration. Amazon.Extensions.Configuration.SystemsManager There is a package by AWS that facilitates making using Parameter Store incredibly easy. Simply add the Amazon.Extensions.Configuration.SystemsManager package to your project and use the AddSystemsManager extension method on IConfigurationBuilder The argument you pass to AddSystemsManager will be the prefix to your configuration hierarchy within Parameter Store. In my example, I’m using /Demo… Read More »Using AWS Parameter Store for .NET Core Configuration