Q: What's the near-term roadmap for .NET tooling?

A: While tentative, here are some short term plans:

• Sep 2016 – Preview 3 of VS 2015 with early .CSProj support for .NET Core
• Nov 2016 – .NET Core 1.2, ASP.NET Core 1.2, Entity Framework Core 1.2, SignalR, .NET Standard 2.0, etc.  

 #region Properties

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the product variant identifier
        /// </summary>
        public int ProductVariantId { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the product identifier
        /// </summary>
        public int ProductId { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the name
        /// </summary>
        public string Name { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the SKU
        /// </summary>
        public string SKU { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the description
        /// </summary>
        public string Description { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the admin comment
        /// </summary>
        public string AdminComment { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the manufacturer part number
        /// </summary>
        public string ManufacturerPartNumber { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether the product variant is gift card
        /// </summary>
        public bool IsGiftCard { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the gift card type
        /// </summary>
        public int GiftCardType { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether the product variant is download
        /// </summary>
        public bool IsDownload { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the download identifier
        /// </summary>
        public int DownloadId { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether this downloadable product can be downloaded unlimited number of times
        /// </summary>
        public bool UnlimitedDownloads { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the maximum number of downloads
        /// </summary>
        public int MaxNumberOfDownloads { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the number of days during customers keeps access to the file.
        /// </summary>
        public int? DownloadExpirationDays { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the download activation type
        /// </summary>
        public int DownloadActivationType { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether the product variant has a sample download file
        /// </summary>
        public bool HasSampleDownload { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the sample download identifier
        /// </summary>
        public int SampleDownloadId { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether the product has user agreement
        /// </summary>
        public bool HasUserAgreement { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the text of license agreement
        /// </summary>
        public string UserAgreementText { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether the product variant is recurring
        /// </summary>
        public bool IsRecurring { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the cycle length
        /// </summary>
        public int CycleLength { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the cycle period
        /// </summary>
        public int CyclePeriod { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the total cycles
        /// </summary>
        public int TotalCycles { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether the entity is ship enabled
        /// </summary>
        public bool IsShipEnabled { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether the entity is free shipping
        /// </summary>
        public bool IsFreeShipping { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the additional shipping charge
        /// </summary>
        public decimal AdditionalShippingCharge { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether the product variant is marked as tax exempt
        /// </summary>
        public bool IsTaxExempt { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the tax category identifier
        /// </summary>
        public int TaxCategoryId { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating how to manage inventory
        /// </summary>
        public int ManageInventory { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the stock quantity
        /// </summary>
        public int StockQuantity { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether to display stock availability
        /// </summary>
        public bool DisplayStockAvailability { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether to display stock quantity
        /// </summary>
        public bool DisplayStockQuantity { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the minimum stock quantity
        /// </summary>
        public int MinStockQuantity { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the low stock activity identifier
        /// </summary>
        public int LowStockActivityId { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the quantity when admin should be notified
        /// </summary>
        public int NotifyAdminForQuantityBelow { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether to allow orders when out of stock
        /// </summary>
        public int Backorders { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the order minimum quantity
        /// </summary>
        public int OrderMinimumQuantity { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the order maximum quantity
        /// </summary>
        public int OrderMaximumQuantity { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the warehouse identifier
        /// </summary>
        public int WarehouseId { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether to disable buy button
        /// </summary>
        public bool DisableBuyButton { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether to show "Call for Pricing" or "Call for quote" instead of price
        /// </summary>
        public bool CallForPrice { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the price
        /// </summary>
        public decimal Price { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the old price
        /// </summary>
        public decimal OldPrice { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the product cost
        /// </summary>
        public decimal ProductCost { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether a customer enters price
        /// </summary>
        public bool CustomerEntersPrice { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the minimum price entered by a customer
        /// </summary>
        public decimal MinimumCustomerEnteredPrice { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the maximum price entered by a customer
        /// </summary>
        public decimal MaximumCustomerEnteredPrice { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the weight
        /// </summary>
        public decimal Weight { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the length
        /// </summary>
        public decimal Length { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the width
        /// </summary>
        public decimal Width { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the height
        /// </summary>
        public decimal Height { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the picture identifier
        /// </summary>
        public int PictureId { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the available start date and time
        /// </summary>
        public DateTime? AvailableStartDateTime { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the shipped end date and time
        /// </summary>
        public DateTime? AvailableEndDateTime { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether the entity is published
        /// </summary>
        public bool Published { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether the entity has been deleted
        /// </summary>
        public bool Deleted { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the display order
        /// </summary>
        public int DisplayOrder { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the date and time of instance creation
        /// </summary>
        public DateTime CreatedOn { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the date and time of instance update
        /// </summary>
        public DateTime UpdatedOn { get; set; }
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets CouponCreated
        /// </summary>
        public bool? CouponetCreated { get; set; }
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the date and time of CouponCreated
        /// </summary>
        public DateTime? CouponetCreatedOn { get; set; }
        #endregion

This is just terrible for the web. When there's a 7x difference between the JS performance on a BRAND NEW PIXEL and a new iPhone, web app makers just have to approach the whole game differentially. I mean, the Pixel 5 is FIVE YEARS behind the performance game. 

This past week of the bootcamp was devoted to the Microsoft ASP.NET Web API. In other words, students learned how to build the server-side half of their full stack Web apps. By this point in the camp, students understand how all of the various pieces of a modern web app fit together. 

XAML Islands enable .NET and native Win32 applications to host UWP XAML controls. You can enhance the experience and functionality of your existing desktop applications with the latest UI innovations previously only available for UWP apps.  

همه داده‌ها باید در داخل کلاس خود پنهان شده باشند. (All data should be hidden within its class) 

استفاده کنندگان از کلاس باید به واسط عمومی آن وابسته باشند، اما یک کلاس نباید به استفاده کنندگان خود، وابسته باشد. (Users of a class must be dependent on its public interface, but a class should not be dependent on its users)

تعداد پیغام‌های موجود در قرارداد یک کلاس را کمینه سازید. (Minimize the number of messages in the protocol of a class) 

پیاده سازی یک واسط عمومی یکسان کمینه برای همه کلاس‌ها  (Implement a minimal public interface that all classes understand [e.g., operations such as copy (deep versus shallow), equality testing, pretty printing, parsing from an ASCII description, etc.].) 

جزئیات پیاده سازی، مانند توابع خصوصی common-code  ( توابعی که کد مشترک سایر متدهای کلاس را در بدنه خود دارند) را در واسط عمومی یک کلاس قرار ندهید.  (Do not put implementation details such as common-code private functions into the public interface of a class)

واسط عمومی کلاس را با اقلامی که یا استفاده کنندگان از کلاس توانایی استفاده از آن را نداشته و یا تمایلی به استفاده از آنها ندارند، آمیخته نکنید.  (Do not clutter the public interface of a class with items that users of that class are not able to use or are not interested in using )

اتصال و پیوستگی مابین کلاس‌ها باید از نوع Nil یا Export باشد؛ به این معنی که یک کلاس فقط از واسط عمومی کلاس دیگر استفاده کند یا کاری با آن نداشته باشد. (Classes should only exhibit nil or export coupling with other classes, that is, a class should only use operations in the public interface of another class or have nothing to do with that class.)

یک کلاس باید یک و تنها یک Key Abstraction را تسخیر نماید. (A class should capture one and only one key abstraction) 

داده و رفتار مرتبط را در یک جا (کلاس) نگه دارید. (Keep related data and behavior in one place)

اطلاعات نامرتبط به هم را در کلاس‌های جدا از هم قرار دهید. ((Spin off nonrelated information into another class (i.e., noncommunicating behavior)

مطمئن باشید انتزاع هایی را که مدل می‌کنید کلاس بوده و نه نقش‌هایی که وهله‌های آنها بازی می‌کنند. (Be sure the abstractions that you model are classes and not simply the roles objects play)  

If you are running a recent build of Windows 10 (or 11) you would be surprised to learn a number of tools traditionally found in Linux are now bundled with Windows. 

WSL 2 distros are now supported on Windows Server