With the new Version 7, Entity Framework is moving away from legacy systems and duplications which have accumulated in recent years. As a slim-line new development it will be available for .NET Core, and therefore also WinRT, whilst in addition allowing access to NoSQL databases.This session will show exactly what has changed and how you can benefit from the new possibilities. 

When you go to https://vscode.dev, you'll be presented with a lightweight version of VS Code running fully in the browser. Open a folder on your local machine and start coding.

No install required. 

Issues Fixed in 15.9.1

These are the issues addressed in 15.9.1:

• Fixed a bug where Visual Studio would fail to build projects using the Microsoft Xbox One XDK.

Details of What's New in 15.9.1

Universal Windows Platform Development SDK

The Windows 10 October 2018 Update SDK (build 17763) is now the default selected SDK for the Universal Windows Platform development workload.

ASP.NET Core 2.1 introduces new application host for Windows services. We can now run ASP.NET Core applications as Windows services with minimal effort. This blog post introduces how it is done and how to build and run Windows services on ASP.NET Core without any need for dirty hacks. 

We are thrilled to announce the preview release of C# Dev Kit, a new Visual Studio Code extension that brings an improved editor-first C# development experience to Linux, macOS, and Windows. 

The .NET 7.0.201 release is available for download. This SDK includes the previously released .NET 7.0.3 Runtime and is in support of Visual Studio 17.5 release.  

Microsoft Web Template Studio (WebTS) is a Visual Studio Code Extension that accelerates the creation of new web applications using a wizard-based experience. 

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.9.2:

• MFC EXE (binary) size is 5 times bigger in VS 15.8 (_MSC_VER = 1915).
• Key 'OPENSSH' is not supported.
• Windows magnifier can no longer track keyboad cursor.
• Analysis fails with immediately-invoked lamba in while loop.
• Xamarin iOS designer not working with 15.9 and Xamarin.iOS 12.2.1.10.
• We improved the reliability of incremental linking for large C++ projects.
• LNK2001 "unresolved external symbol" errors for certain vector deleting destructors will now be resolved.
• Compiler execution time has been improved for code that makes heavy use of chained, inline functions involving lambdas or local classes as parameter or return types. 

A Visual Studio extension that installs a short list of highly valuable extensions targeted web development. 

23,765 people from 137 countries took part in the recent State of JS survey and while there are some common criticisms of the project, the results are nonetheless interesting and we’ll be digging into some in forthcoming issues. Standouts include:

- Svelte took the top frontend framework crown from React for developer satisfaction.
- Testing Library jumped straight to #1 for testing libraries.
- More developers than ever are producing PWAs or using WebAssembly.
- 86% of respondents are using VS Code to work on their code.