.NET Core 3.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is now available. This release contains only a handful of bug fixes and closely represents what we expect to release for .NET Core 3.0. 

background-clip is one of those properties I've known about for years, but rarely used. Maybe just a couple of times as part of a solution to a Stack Overflow question. Until last year, when I started creating my huge collection of sliders. Some of the designs I chose to reproduce were a bit more complex and I only had one element available per slider, which happened to be an input element, meaning that I couldn't even use pseudo-elements on it. Even though that does work in certain browsers, the fact that it works is actually a bug and I didn't want to rely on that. All this meant I ended up using backgrounds, borders, and shadows a lot. I also learned a lot from doing that and this article shares some of those lessons.  

A minimal, UI-focused programming language for web designers. With uilang, you write your code just like plain English, straight into your HTML using a <code> element. uilang's logic relies on manipulating classes on HTML elements and using these classes in CSS to show, hide, animate and transform elements when a click occurs. This simple logic lets designers create most of the typical user interface behaviours: tabs, popovers, overlays, sliding menus, etc.  Demo

IEnumerable<T> is a good fit for many scenarios, but do consider that IReadOnlyCollection<T> might be a better fit in circumstances where the collection is always going to be fully available in memory. Avoid passing round mutable collection types as this can cause confusion about who owns the collection. 

Rider is a full featured, cross platform .NET IDE based on ReSharper and IntelliJ. The front end and user interface is built on the proven IntelliJ platform, just like WebStorm or IntelliJ IDEA, and can run on Windows, Linux and Mac. But the engine that drives all of your favourite JetBrains IDE features is ReSharper, running as an out of process language server.

NativeScript is a new framework for building native apps that allows developers to share code across iOS, Android, and Windows.  

• To import various symbols please adjust the paths in the following way:
  
• angular2/core -> @angular/core
  
• angular2/compiler -> @angular/compiler
  
• angular2/common -> @angular/common
  
• angular2/platform/browser -> @angular/platform-browser (applications with precompiled templates) + @angular/platform-browser-dynamic (applications that compile templates on the fly)
  
• angular2/platform/server -> @angular/platform-server
  
• angular2/testing -> @angular/core/testing (it/describe/..) + @angular/compiler/testing (TestComponentBuilder) + @angular/platform-browser/testing
  
• angular2/upgrade -> @angular/upgrade
  
• angular2/http -> @angular/http
  
• angular2/router -> @angular/router-deprecated (snapshot of the component router from beta.17 for backwards compatibility)
  
• new package: @angular/router - component router with several breaking changes  
  

C# 7 is a major update with a lot of interesting new capabilities. And while there are plenty of articles on what you can do with it, there aren't quite as many on what you should do with it. Using the principles found in the .NET Framework Design Guidelines, we're going to take a first pass at laying down strategies for getting the most from these new features.