As Microsoft launches .NET 7, CODE Focus offers high quality insights right from the teams responsible for designing and improving the product. Dig into articles about C# 11, .NET MAUI, Blazor, EF Core 7, CoreWCF and better tools to upgrade your existing .NET and ASP.NET applications to the latest release. Plus performance enhancements everywhere! This is an amazing release. 

NDepend reports that there are an additional 141,111 IL instructions. This represents 11.3% of the overall code base. 

Quick summary of what’s new in ASP.NET Core 2.1
 Now it’s time to look into things in more detail and with a little explanation to understand things better. Therefore, in this post, find a short and quick summary of what’s new in ASP.NET Core 2.1.

Noda Time  is an alternative date and time API for .NET 

A simple utility to execute a callback when a webfont loads.  Demo

This uses the CSS Font Loading Module when available (currently in Chrome 35+ and Opera 22+). When that isn’t available, it uses a very similar approach to the one used in the TypeKit Web Font Loader (which is currently 7.1KB GZIP).

Basically, it creates an element with a font stack including the web font and a default serif/sans-serif typeface. It then uses a test string and measures the dimensions of the element at a certain interval. When the dimensions are different than the default fallback fonts, the font is considered to have loaded successfully.

If you’d like a full polyfill for the CSS Font Loading Module, follow along with Bram Stein’s Font Loader. I believe the specification has changed since he launched this polyfill, but he’s working on an updated version. 

Blazor is full of promise, and Matthew MacDonald penned this succinct analysis of Blazor Desktop, comparing it to Electron (a JavaScript wrapper for desktop apps) for .NET. 

This is a list of features we have looked at for C# 7, roughly categorized according to our current level of interest and estimated plausibility.

The HTTP protocol specification defines an ETag as the "entity value for the requested variant"  Another way of saying this is that the ETag is a token that can be associated with web resource 

A lot of time this keyword was a mystery for me and many starting JavaScript developers. It is a
powerful feature, but requires efforts to be understood