A jQuery plugin which takes Twitter Bootstrap's already great pagination component and injects a bit of date based magic. In the process creating a hugely simplified and modularised way of paging date based results in your application

This is a defense of the most prolific and dedicated public servant that has graced the world in my lifetime. One man has added hundreds of billions, if not trillions of dollars of value to the global economy. This man has worked tirelessly for the benefit of everyone around him. It is impossible to name a publicly traded company that has not somehow benefited from his contributions, and many have benefited to the tune of billions. In return for the countless billions of wealth that people made from the fruits of his labor, he was rewarded with poverty and ridicule. Now that the world is done taking from him, they are heading to the next step of vilifying him as incompetent.

We are thrilled to announce the highly anticipated .NET Conf 2024, a free, three-day virtual developer event celebrating the release of .NET 9. Co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft, this annual tradition continues to grow, and we’re more excited than ever to bring you the latest innovations in .NET. Mark your calendars for November 12th to 14th, 2024, and prepare to be inspired by a wealth of knowledge, creativity, and community engagement.

Just-in-time (JIT in PostgreSQL) compilation of SQL statements is one of the highlighted features in PostgreSQL 11. There is great excitement in the community because of the many claims of up to a 30% jump in performance.  

<Project>
    <ItemGroup>
        <CompilerVisibleProperty Include="SourceGenerator_CustomRootNamespace"/>        
    </ItemGroup>
</Project>

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

    <PropertyGroup>
        <GeneratePackageOnBuild>true</GeneratePackageOnBuild> <!-- Generates a package at build -->
        <IncludeBuildOutput>false</IncludeBuildOutput> <!-- Do not include the generator as a lib dependency -->
    </PropertyGroup>

    <ItemGroup>
        <!-- Package the generator in the analyzer directory of the nuget package -->
        <None Include="$(OutputPath)\$(AssemblyName).dll" Pack="true" PackagePath="analyzers/dotnet/cs" Visible="false"/>

        <!-- Package the props file -->
        <None Include="NotifyPropertyChangedGenerator.props" Pack="true" PackagePath="build" Visible="true"/>
    </ItemGroup>
</Project>

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
    <PropertyGroup>
        <SourceGenerator_CustomRootNamespace>ThisIsTest</SourceGenerator_CustomRootNamespace>
    </PropertyGroup>


    <ItemGroup>
        <CompilerVisibleProperty Include="SourceGenerator_CustomRootNamespace"/>
    </ItemGroup>
</Project>

internal static class SourceGeneratorContextExtensions
{
    public static string GetMSBuildProperty(
        this GeneratorExecutionContext context,
        string property,
        string defaultValue = "")
    {
        return !context.AnalyzerConfigOptions.GlobalOptions.TryGetValue($"build_property.{property}", out var value)
            ? defaultValue
            : value;
    }
}

[Generator]
public class NotifyPropertyChangedGenerator : ISourceGenerator
{
    public void Initialize(GeneratorInitializationContext context)
    {
    }

    public void Execute(GeneratorExecutionContext context)
    {
        var customRootNamespace = context.GetMSBuildProperty("SourceGenerator_CustomRootNamespace", "Test");

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
    <ItemGroup>
        <AdditionalFiles Include="file1.txt" Visible="false"/> 
    </ItemGroup>
</Project>

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
    <ItemGroup>
        <AdditionalFiles Include="file2.txt" SourceGenerator_EnableLogging="true" Visible="false"/> 
    </ItemGroup>
</Project>

<Project>
    <ItemGroup>
        <CompilerVisibleProperty Include="SourceGenerator_CustomRootNamespace"/>
        
        <CompilerVisibleProperty Include="SourceGenerator_EnableLogging"/>
        <CompilerVisibleItemMetadata Include="AdditionalFiles" MetadataName="SourceGenerator_EnableLogging"/>
    </ItemGroup>
</Project>

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
    <PropertyGroup>
        <SourceGenerator_EnableLogging>true</SourceGenerator_EnableLogging>
    </PropertyGroup>

    <ItemGroup>
        <CompilerVisibleProperty Include="SourceGenerator_EnableLogging"/>
        <CompilerVisibleItemMetadata Include="AdditionalFiles" MetadataName="SourceGenerator_EnableLogging"/>

        <AdditionalFiles Include="file1.txt" Visible="false"/>  <!-- logging will be controlled by default, or global value -->
        <AdditionalFiles Include="file2.txt" SourceGenerator_EnableLogging="true" Visible="false"/>  <!-- always enable logging for this file -->
        <AdditionalFiles Include="file3.txt" SourceGenerator_EnableLogging="false" Visible="false"/> <!-- never enable logging for this file -->
    </ItemGroup>
</Project>

internal static class SourceGeneratorContextExtensions
{
    public static string GetAdditionalFilesOption(
        this GeneratorExecutionContext context,
        AdditionalText additionalText,
        string property,
        string defaultValue = "")
    {
        return !context.AnalyzerConfigOptions.GetOptions(additionalText)
            .TryGetValue($"build_metadata.AdditionalFiles.{property}", out var value)
            ? defaultValue
            : value;
    }
}

[Generator]
public class NotifyPropertyChangedGenerator : ISourceGenerator
{
    public void Initialize(GeneratorInitializationContext context)
    {
    }

    public void Execute(GeneratorExecutionContext context)
    {
        var customRootNamespace = context.GetMSBuildProperty("SourceGenerator_CustomRootNamespace", "Test");

        var globalLoggingSwitch = context.GetMSBuildProperty("SourceGenerator_EnableLogging", "false");
        var emitLoggingGlobal = globalLoggingSwitch.Equals("true", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);

        foreach (var file in context.AdditionalFiles)
        {
            var perFileLoggingSwitch = context.GetAdditionalFilesOption(file, "SourceGenerator_EnableLogging");
            var emitLogging = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(perFileLoggingSwitch)
                ? emitLoggingGlobal // allow the user to override the global logging on a per-file basis
                : perFileLoggingSwitch.Equals("true", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);

            // add the source with or without logging...
        }

We’re excited to announce general availability of F# 4.7 in conjunction with the .NET Core 3.0 release! In this post, I’ll show you how to get started, explain everything in F# 4.7 and give you a sneak peek at what we’re doing for the next version of F#. 

In this C# 8 tutorial, I am going to introduce a selection of currently planned features which will most probably end up in the final release. All of the C# 8 features are still early in development and are likely to change.