Just a quick update on what the yo aspnet team has been working on. Bootstrap (aka Twitter Bootstrap) is the very well known UI layout engine and has been the standard for the ASP.NET generator. However, there was a contributor - Josh Williams pitching the idea of using Semantic UI (http://semantic-ui.com/) as an alternative. After some conversation with other members of the team, we decided that choice would prevail and offer the following options. $ yo aspnet _-----_ | | .--------------------------. |--(o)--| | Welcome to the | `---------´ | marvelous ASP.NET Core | ( _´U`_ ) | 1.0 generator! | /___A___\ '--------------------------' | ~ | __'.___.'__ ´ ` |° ´ Y ` ? What type of application do you want to create? Web Application ? Which UI framework would you like to use?...

I recently had an opportunity to sit with the team on the Adventures in Angular podcast and talk about my NON experience with Angular 1 and how my path into Angular 2 was going given I had some in depth TypeScript knowledge. AiA is a regular listen for me, the guest and panel are often either friends in the community or people to pay attention to and the content is always great. Of course we cover TypeScript & Angular 2 but also talked about node.js, ASP.NET Core, ReactiveX and more. Check out the show - https://devchat.tv/adventures-in-angular/082-aia-getting-started-with-angular-2-with-no-angular-1-experience-with-shayne-boyer Be sure to checkout my Pluralsight Play by Play with John Papa as well on ASP.NET Core...

Come out to Orlando, April 16-22 at the Disney Swan Hotel and see me and my friends speak about all of the latest and greatest technology. REGISTER using the code BOYER and save $$$. Register before March 1 for a workshop package and get your choice of Microsoft Band 2, Surface 3, or XBOX ONE. I'll talking about Getting Started with the Modern Web Toolchain - Bower, gulp, npm may or may not be new terms to you when sitting down for your next application. Getting an understanding of what these tools can do to help inside and outside of your IDE will streamline your development team to a faster path to production. Check out this session for a quick intro...

I have been following the Angular 2 and ASP.NET Core stories pretty close over the past year, and of course not ignoring Docker. I wanted to take some time and see what it would be like to take all of these different technologies, put each of them in a Docker container, start up the entire application with docker-compose and then scale each layer. Be sure to checkout my Plurasight Play by Play w/ John Papa on ASP.NET Core on Any OS here. Angular 2 The Angular 2 Team has done a great job with their documentation and provided an awesome tutorial called Tour of Heroes developed by John Papa (@john_papa). I grabbed that code from the tutorial...

Anytime I have the opportunity to sit and run through showing another developer the latest thing I'm into a few things are likely to happen. First, we'll both probably learn something (let's hope). Secondly, it's just great to be able to "play" around with the tech and see where it leads. That's what I was able to do recently with John Papa, check out our Play by Play here. The code and samples are available on github. Here is the description from the video... In this course, Shayne Boyer shows how to build a web app with ASP.NET Core 1.0 from scratch, in real time. Since ASP.NET Core works cross-platform, Shayne develops and runs the app entirely...