As stated in this article, Windows 10, version 1909 is a scoped set of features for select performance improvements, enterprise features and quality enhancements. Developers should be aware of this release, but no action is necessary at this time. 

Note that FASTER is not directly comparable to Redis, as FASTER is not just a cache. FASTER can index and access data larger than memory, as well as take consistent checkpoints for recovery, more like a persistent hash key-value store + cache combination. FASTER is multi-threaded and latch-free as well, which gives it very high performance on a single machine.

Some recently completed and ongoing/future work items on our roadmap can be found at https://microsoft.github.io/FASTER/roadmap. For instance, in FASTER C#, we recently added log compaction, support for deletes, inline variable-sized allocations, and a read cache. 

VSCode is now ready to open Docker Containers!  

Partial views in ASP.NET MVC allow you to reuse and customise components to act like user controls. They consist of both code and markup. They are an idea that is easy to grasp but they have great potential for the more adventurous developer who is prepared to experiment. Dino Esposito explains 

I think you might want to be a software developer for a long time, in the same way that some people are musicians for a long time, or artists for a long time, or roofers for a long time. If not, you can hit “back” in your browser. It’s cool, no harm no foul. But I think maybe you would like to be a twenty-year programmer, or forty-year, or more. 

Visual Studio vs JetBrains Rider: A Detailed Comparison 

Soon the next major version of the framework will come out, which breaks backward compatibility. Apparently, even developers of the framework realized that there is something wrong and decided to rewrite the framework almost from scratch. They don’t add new functionality, breaking backward compatibility, they rewrite almost everything. 

The tooltip that shows the expression type (Cmd/Ctrl-hover) in JavaScript and TypeScript files now has a syntax highlighting. 

augustoproiete/i-am-root-nuget-package: 📦🏴‍☠️ NuGet package that shows we can run arbitrary code from any NuGet package 

We’ve ported the open-source Windows Calculator to yet another platform: Linux! With all the rumors of a Microsoft browser – Edge – coming to Linux soon, we thought it would be good to show that the open source community can be effective in bringing a piece of Windows to Linux.