DNX, a Dot Net eXecution environment, contains all of the code that is required to bootstrap and run an application.

A quicker way to open source code repositories  

In VS Code, we've offered integrated support for Git from the very beginning, and we've been supporting many other source control management (SCM) providers through extensions. This has allowed developers to clone and work with repositories directly within VS Code 

This list was originally a clone of stackoverflow - List of Freely Available Programming Books by George Stocker.

The list was moved to GitHub by Victor Felder for collaborative updating and maintenance. It grew to become one of the most popular repositories on Github, with over 80,000 stars, over 4000 commits, over 800 contributors, and over 20,000 forks. 

We teamed up with a wildly successful designer to bring you a beautiful eBook that will perfect the way you design for screens.

AspNetCoreRateLimit is an ASP.NET Core rate limiting solution designed to control the rate of requests that clients can make to a Web API or MVC app based on IP address or client ID. The AspNetCoreRateLimit package contains an IpRateLimitMiddleware and a ClientRateLimitMiddleware, with each middleware you can set multiple limits for different scenarios like allowing an IP or Client to make a maximum number of calls in a time interval like per second, 15 minutes, etc. You can define these limits to address all requests made to an API or you can scope the limits to each API URL or HTTP verb and path.

Smart Wizard is a flexible and heavily customizable jQuery step wizard plugin with Bootstrap support. It is easy to implement and gives a neat and stylish interface for your forms, checkout screen, registration steps etc. Based on the feedback from our users over the past years we have come up with the best ever built jQuery wizard plugin of all time.  Demo

Features:

• Bootstrap support
• Responsive themes
• Heavily customizable toolbar, option to add extra buttons
• Theme support with various themes included
• Customizable css styles
• Url navigation and step selection
• Public methods for external function call
• Enhanced event support
• In-built wizard reset method
• Ajax content loading with option to specify individual url for steps
• Keyboard navigation

OpenAPI (f.k.a Swagger) Specification code generator. Supports C#, Go, Java, Node.js, TypeScript, Python, Ruby and PHP. 

AutoRest is an open source tool that generates client libraries for accessing RESTful web services. 

Video Tutorial : https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/videos/inside-autorest-with-david-justice/ 

• WPF improvements for spell check, support for per-user custom dictionaries and improved touch performance 
• Enhanced support for Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) X509 certificates
• Added support in SQL Connectivity for AlwaysOn and Always Encrypted
• Profiling improvements related to IcorProfilerInfo interface and introduction of Ngen PDBs
• System.Transactions APIs now support distributed transactions with a non-MSDTC coordinator
• Many other performance, stability, and reliability related fixes in RyuJIT, GC, WPF and WCF.

Now you can upgrade any .NET application to the latest version of .NET inside of Visual Studio! We are happy to introduce it as a Visual Studio extension and will upgrade your .NET Framework or .NET Core web- and desktop apps. In this video, Olia shows you how to get the extension and start to update your projects to the latest version of NET in minutes.