• VS is more responsive when running Git operations.
• Debugging large solutions with /debug:fastlink PDBs is more robust. Changes in the PDB/DIA lead to reduced latency and a 30% reduction in heap memory consumption in the VS debugger that used to cause crashes.
• C++ compiler bugfixes:
  • Fix for the SSA optimizer incorrectly sinking a function call past a store to a variable used in a __finally handler.
  • Fix for the SSA optimizer sometimes incorrectly analyzing memory loads from locations with negative offsets.
  • Fix for the optimizer incorrectly transforming a pre-incremented loop into a post-incremented loop. This was found compiling the ICU project.
• Microsoft bumped up the Java™ Development Kit 8 to Update 172 (JDK version 8u172). 

Feedspot is the content reader built especially for power users who want to save time. Using a content reader helps you keep up with your top information 

In this tutorial I'm going to take you through building a simple authentication mechanism for AngularJS apps using JWTs (JSON web tokens) combined with local storage. 

Without a doubt, maps are one of the most useful tools for users when included in an app. This tutorial is the first in a series going over Google Maps v2 for Android. It will cover setting up the Google Maps API through the Google Developer Console, including a map fragment in your applications, displaying the user's location, adding markers, drawing on the map, and some general methods that will add utility to your app.
Intermediate  & Advanced

The ASP.NET team is proud to announce general availability of ASP.NET Core 2.0.  This release features compatibility with .NET Core 2.0, tooling support in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3, and the new Razor Pages user-interface design paradigm.  For a full list of updates, you can read the release notes.  The latest SDK and tools can be downloaded from https://dot.net/core. Read the .NET Core 2.0 release announcement for more information and watch the launch video on Channel 9.

Nebular is a great toolkit if you build Rich UI web-application based on Angular, and want to bootstrap your development using essential features out of the box. It provides you with a set of native Angular components, themeable components, authentication and security layers easily configurable for your API. At the same time, Nebular allows you to use it together with any other UI library you choose. 

.NET 8 RC2 is now available. This is our last release candidate. This release includes new NuGet package READMEs for .NET packages, simple CLI-based project evaluation for MSBuild, publishing containers to tar.gz archives, and Tensor Primitives for .NET.