Last week on On .NET, we had Scott Hunter, who is the new director of Program Management for .NET, in other words my grand-boss.

We’ll be live on Friday 10AM Pacific Time, instead of our usual Thursday time. I’m happy to announce that our guest for this week is Aaron Stannard. We’ll talk about Akka.NET, the actor framework for .NET, and about Aaron’s other projects NBench and DotNetty.

Package of the week: Polly

In a world of increasingly distributed applications, exception handling is not always the most convenient way of handling transient errors and the flow associated with them. For instance, if you’re communicating with a distant service, you may want to implement a retry policy in case it fails. Polly provides a fluent API that easily expresses such policies.

Tool of the week: DotNetAPIs

DotNetAPIs is an extremely impressive web site that acts as an API documentation aggregator and search engine for a boatload of .NET APIs and libraries. The way it can be so exhaustive is by analyzing all NuGet packages, and extracting their built-in XML documentation. It’s a great, and very useful idea. An essential new tool for all .NET developers.

Games

Global Game Jam 2016 Submission

Become an explorer who has encountered a small tribe in Cannibroth. The tribe only communicates through dance and you must respond with the proper moves or be tossed into the pot and turned into carrot food!

And this is it for this week!

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