With the 4.6.1 RC we have added support for WPF to recognize custom dictionaries registered globally. This capability is available in addition to the ability to register them per-control. Also, custom dictionaries in the previous versions of WPF had no affordance for Excluded Words and AutoCorrect lists. On Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, these scenarios are now enabled through the use of files that can be placed under %AppData%\Microsoft\Spelling\<language tag>.

We’re introducing a new singleton service that will support generating a URL. This new service can be used from middleware, and does not require an HttpContext. For right now the set of things you can link to is limited to MVC actions, but this will expand in 3.0. 

Rust – the Ultimate Programming Language?

What makes a good programming language? Syntax? Compiler? Tools and ecosystem? It is tempting to say “all of that” but in that case, why there are so many different programming languages? All these components are very important but they alone can’t make the language “good”. One of essential things is the purpose — like languages for rapid development, or development of distributed algorithms, or general purpose for high-level and low-level applications, or easy to learn, or safe to use and so on.

We can now run ASP.NET Core applications as Windows services with minimal effort. This blog post introduces how this process is done.

Today, we are releasing the 3.4.3 RTM version of the NuGet Visual Studio 2015 extension and the Windows x86 commandline executable. We continue to heavily invest in improving the quality of NuGet scenarios in Visual Studio and commandline. The complete list of issues fixed in this version is available on GitHub. In this post, we will review the important changes in 3.4.3 release. 

Introducing Atlassian for VS Code: Bitbucket Cloud and Jira Software extension for Visual Studio Code 

For an application, logging is very important to keep track of that application and keep it error-free. In .NET Core, we don't need any third party logging; instead, we can use built-in logging whenever we want. This is very efficient in terms of code and performance.

Let’s start. Create a new .NET Core application and name it. 

Develop and deploy databases in Visual Studio with migration scripts.

Want to work on databases in Visual Studio alongside your application? Feeling the pain of managing and deploying database changes manually? Then ReadyRoll's the tool for you.

It generates numerically ordered SQL migration scripts that sit inside your project and take your schema from one version to the next.

You can add them to version control, use them to build and release, and automate database and application deployments, all in one process.

CodeQL is a static analysis tool that can scan your code for vulnerabilities.