(Ben Nadel) The other day, I was talking to fellow InVisioneer, Shawn Grigson, about how weirdly excited I am that Lucee has compress() and extract() functions.

(Scott Hanselman) You’ve long been able to write Windows Services in .NET and .NET Core, and you could certainly write a vanilla Console App and cobble something together for a long running headless service as well.

(Bipin Joshi) Many ASP.NET Core application resort to caching for performance improvement reasons. I have discussed a few caching techniques in this, this, and this article.

(Peter Vogel) There’s a very good chance that, every time you need to access a Web Service, you’ve been creating an HttpClient object and then throwing it away.

(Steve Smith) Automated tests have gained a lot of acceptance in recent years. Not long ago, many organizations bristled at the notion of having their expensive developers spend time writing code that wasn’t actually going to ship to production, but instead would just verify that the “real” code wor

(Gunnar Peipman) Azure Functions V2 supports ASP.NET Core like dependency injection. It is specially good if we write functions that are wrappers for shared libraries and components we are also using in web and other applications of our solution.

(Ben Nadel) Last week, I took a look at how the Function localmode feature in Lucee makes it safer to dynamically render CFML templates.

(Christian Nagel) Azure Functions got some improvements in the last months. Now it’s no longer necessary to create static methods, instance methods can be used, and dependency injection using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection is built-in.

(Hannes DuPreez) In the previous installment, “Creating a Magnifier in .NET, Part 1: Structure,” we created the structure for this project. We set up the Methods and Properties needed. If you have not read Part 1 yet, please do so before continuing.

(David Ramel) You have to manually enable it, but an early look at a new Terminal is available in the third preview of Visual Studio 2019 16.3, along with many F# enhancements, IntelliCode improvements and much more.