The .NET team has built a linker to reduce the size of .NET Core applications. It is built on top of the excellent and battle-tested mono linker. The Xamarin tools also use this linker so it makes sense to try it out and perhaps use it everywhere! 

Hackers are smart and users are not being able to cope with their pace of evolution. The result is malware outbreaks we get to know about frequently. Windows is the most widely used OS on Pcs. That makes it the most widely targeted OS too. What is an average user’s (by average I mean not too technical)  defense in such case? The anti malware programs. Of course, you have to pay a decent price for your PC to be secured from latest malware derivatives, but what’s better than to get the security for no cost? 

This is a technical deep-dive talk, and will explore possible design directions of .NET 5 and future releases. 

There's two ways to deploy a .NET Core application. There's FDD and SCD. Since TLAs (three letter acronyms) are stupid, that's Framework-dependent and Self-contained. When .NET Core is installed it ends up in C:\program files\dotnet on Windows, for example. In the "Shared" folder there's a bunch of .NET stuff that is, well, shared. There may be multiple folders, as you can see in my folder below. You can have many and multiple installs of .NET Core.  

C# 9.0 is taking shape, and I’d like to share our thinking on some of the major features we’re adding to this next version of the language. 

we will look at some of the approaches that you can take to make optimized and better performing ASP.NET web sites. Some of these principles can also be applied to websites created in a technology other than ASP.NET.

can’t be the only person who hates waiting for the code to compile and run… Especially when I want to test only a small part of it! That’s a total waste of time! But good news everyone, I found a way to run a part of my C# code without building the whole project! 

Ctrl + E, E – the magical shortcut! 

This is the first in a series of articles that explore how to optimise ASP.NET web sites for search engines. 

This guest blog post is the first of a 3-part series written by Windows MVP Jani Nevalainen. 

It is common when working on a web application, comprised of a server-side Web API, running on a framework like ASP.NET or NestJS, and a client-side Single Page Application (SPA), running on a framework like Angular, to refer to the server-side as "the back-end" and to the client-side as "the front-end". I've been a culprit of this until recently.