To ensure we remain up to date with our technologies and stay on the edge of them we often come up with interesting topics, articles and discussions. If you bump into something interesting or unusual on the project you are working on or have something else you would like to discuss feel free to mention it on our weekly meeting. If the weekly meeting cannot wait, you can always share it and comment on our main Slack channel #team-dotnet.
Additionally every now and then you will find some article or a blog post that will grab your attention. If you think it would benefit our team to give it a read, feel free to share it in our Slack newsletter channel: #newsletter-dotnet.
Blogs
Here you can find a few .NET blogs you might want to follow or check once in a while:
- MS DevBlogs - an official Microsoft blog for staying up to date with the latest information, insights and news directly from Microsoft.
- VS Magazine - an official Microsoft blog similar to the DevBlogs
- Elmah blog - Elmah is an error logging and monitoring tool but has a great .NET blog around different topics
- Telerik blog - Telerik is a component and UI tool, but it also covers interesting .NET topics on their blog
- The Morning Brew - a link blog that collects a few articles and shares them on a daily basis
Also here are a few blogs managed by some interesting people tightly connected to Microsoft and .NET:
Books
If you like to read books here are some recommendations of .NET specific books that are relevant independently of a specific framework or a version:
- Dependency Injection Principles, Practices, and Patterns
- The Art of Unit Testing
- CLR via C# - although it is lastly published in 2012. it is still very relevant to .NET
- Pro .NET Memory management: For Better Code, Performance, and Scalability
- Concurrency in C# Cookbook