A quick two months after 2.6, Git 2.7 has been released with a plethora of features, fixes and performance improvements. Here's some of the new stuff we found interesting on the Bitbucket team. 

A Tour of Go (golang) for the C# Developer

Learning other programming languages enhances our work in our primary language. From the perspective of a C# developer, the Go language (golang) has many interesting ideas. Go is opinionated on some things (such as where curly braces go and what items are capitalized). Declaring an unused variable causes a compile failure; the use of "blank identifiers" (or "discards" in C#) are common. Concurrency is baked right in to the language through goroutines and channels. Programming by exception is discouraged; it's actually called a "panic" in Go. Instead, errors are treated as states to be handled like any other data state. We'll explore these features (and others) by building an application that uses concurrent operations to get data from a service. These ideas make us think about the way we program and how we can improve our day-to-day work (in C# or elsewhere).

0:00 Welcome to Go
2:40 Step 1: Basics
12:20 Step 2: Calling a web service
23:35 Step 3: Parsing JSON
36:26 Step 4: "for" loops
41:00 Step 5: Interfaces and methods
50:05 Step 6: Time and Args
55:10 Step 7: Concurrency
1:07:10 Step 8: Errors
1:14:40 Step 9: Concurrency and errors
1:24:35 Where to go next 

This library have been developed for today's standards, for a workflow careless about legacy browsers thanks to polyfill services and other available options to support legacy browsers. 

With .NET 5, direct support of WinRT has been removed from the C# language and CLR, including most of the functionality previously provided in System.Runtime.InteropServices. In some cases, C#/WinRT provides equivalent functionality. In other cases, functionality may no longer be supported. This article provides a migration guide for interop scenarios in C#/WinRT. 

The new i18n story in Angular

Internationalization support in Angular has been very poor so far. You might know that there’s anngLocalemodule you need to include, which is used by a couple components, likengPluralize,dateandcurrencyfilter to name a few, and that’s pretty much it. As we’ve already discussed, there’s so much more that comes into play when internationalizing an application, which is why there’s finally a new solution evolving that will bring first-class i18n support to the Angular framework. 

I want to take a quick look at file uploads using HTML and JavaScript. Nowadays, many websites don't show the raw <input type="file"> element anymore 

The .NET team at Microsoft has been working in close collaboration with the gRPC team since November 2018 on a new fully managed implementation of gRPC for .NET Core.

We’re pleased to announce that grpc-dotnet is now available with .NET Core 3.0 today! 

".NET Fringe is a new conference focused on .NET developers who are breaking the rules and pushing the boundaries. The .NET platform is more interesting today than it ever has been! The old Microsoft that was at odds with Open Source has been replaced with on

CSS for internationalisation 

ASP.NET is almost 15 years old and it has evolved to become a flexible and extremely powerful platform. But 15 years is a long time, especially in the world of web technology, and the folks at Microsoft knew it was time to change ASP.NET. In this course, Envato Tuts+ instructor Jeremy McPeak will walk you through the major changes to ASP.NET in version 5. Along the way, you'll see how these changes will affect your project and how the new features can make your life as a developer easier. You'll also get a first look at the new Tag Helpers, inversion of control and dependency injection features, with practical examples.