The book is in production: we hope that it will be on the shelves early in the fall.

Open-source software drives much of tech, but still has a diversity problem

ASP.NET Core News is the only weekly newsletter dedicated to ASP.NET Core. Whether you build Razor Pages, MVC applications, Web APIs, SignalR awesomeness, or anything else available on the ASP.NET Core platform, we've got you covered. Every Friday you will receive a weekly digest of the most interesting posts and articles from the last seven days.  

You can download and get started with .NET Core 2.2, on Windows, macOS, and Linux:

• .NET Core 2.2 SDK (includes the runtime)
• .NET Core 2.2 Runtime  

The Unite Gallery is multipurpose javascript gallery based on jquery library. It's built with a modular technique with a lot of accent of ease of use and customization. It's very easy to customize the gallery, changing it's skin via css, and even writing your own theme. Yet this gallery is very powerfull, fast and has the most of nowdays must have features like responsiveness, touch enabled and even zoom feature, it's unique effect.  Demo

Features

• The gallery plays VIDEO from: Youtube, Vimeo, HTML5, Wistia and SoundCloud (not a video but still )
• Responsive - fits to every screen with automatic ratio preserve
• Touch Enabled - Every gallery parts can be controlled by the touch on touch enabled devices
• Responsive - The gallery can fit every screen size, and can respond to a screen size change.
• Skinnable - Allow to change skin with ease in different css file without touching main gallery css.
• Themable - The gallery has various of themes, each theme has it's own options and features, but it uses gallery core objects
• Zoom Effect - The gallery has unique zoom effect that could be applied within buttons, mouse wheel or pinch gesture on touch - enabled devices
• Gallery Buttons - The gallery has buttons on it, like full screen or play/pause that optimized for touch devidces access
• Keyboard controls - The gallery could be controlled by keyboard (left, right arrows)
• Tons of options. The gallery has huge amount of options for every gallery object that make the customization process easy and fun.
• Powerfull API - using the gallery API you can integrate the gallery into your website behaviour and use it with another items like lightboxes etc.

Here are a couple of the most relevant improvements you may want to verify:

• Work on the EF Core in-memory provider was finished and most query features should now be working (the majority of it went into RC1)
• EF Core’s compilation performance was improved significantly for complex queries 

This post is about a cool demo we did at DockerCon which highlights some of the plugin support work we are doing. At the moment this is just a demo and not something you can do yet, but we will add it in a subsequent update. Once available, we'll update this post.

• Separated the existing "Restore Packages" option in the Command Palette into two distinct functions:

  • "Restore Project" - Displays a drop-down that shows all the available projects in the solution or in the workspace. Selecting one of them would trigger a dotnet restore for the particular project.
  • "Restore All Projects" - Triggers a dotnet restore for all projects in the current solution or workspace.
   

• Fixed a bug that caused Code Analysis to stop running on some C++ projects.
• Fixed a bug in the Schema Compare Tool where adding tables with an empty schema failed but was shown as successful.
• Fixed a TypeScript build issue when the selected language version is lower than the latest installed.
• Fixed a Database unresolved reference to object error.
• Improved performance issues on loading Visual Studio.
• Fixed known issue: No snapshot created for C++ native code in Memory Usage tool in the Diagnostic Tools window while debugging.. 

Welcome to this short introduction to Blazor! This new Microsoft framework uses a unique approach to leverage your existing C# and .NET skills to create single-page applications running in web browsers. The technology that makes this possible is called WebAssembly, an open standard supported directly by current browsers on desktop and mobile platforms. You write C# and Razor code instead of JavaScript, and the compiled app runs natively on the client.

Sample Source Code: https://github.com/DevExpress/blazor-training-samples