What’s new for performance in .NET Core and ASP.NET Core 3.0 – Ben Adams
One of the biggest advantages of using .NET Core (besides cross-platform support) is the drastic improvements in performance. Because the .NET Core team was able to make minor breaking changes in the runtime and Base Class Library (BCL), lots of stuff was implemented much more efficiently. In this session Ben will dive into the performance improvements in .NET Core in the 3.0 release: runtime changes, JIT changes, intrinsics and a deep dive into some of the improvements making it the best release yet!

After 15 years of running on essentially the same codebase, Microsoft has finally decided to retire MSDN and TechNet. The replacement will be an open source project known as docs.microsoft.com. 

The .NET Ecosystem in 2021: Over half of .NET devs use C# 8, 46% do not use diagnostic tools, and other facts | The .NET Tools Blog

The .NET Standard 2.0 specification is now complete. It is supported in .NET Core 2.0, in the .NET Framework 4.6.1 and later versions, and in Visual Studio 15.3. You can start using .NET Standard 2.0 today 

Asp.Net Core WebSockets Vs SignalR. Which should you use? (Full Course)

In this video we build 2 separate chat applications, one using Asp.Net Core WebSockets and the other using SignalR, allowing you to compare approaches and decide on which one works best for you. In both cases we build them with C#, .NET Core and JavaScript. You’ll also learn about:

- .NET Core Request Pipeline
- Request Delegates
- Asynchronous Programming in .NET (Async / Await)
- Introduction to Dependency Injection  

The fourth preview of .NET 7 includes enhancements to observability in the .NET implementation of OpenTelemetry, the addition of properties to track microseconds and nanoseconds in date and time structures, new metrics for caching extensions, performance-boosting “on stack replacement,” APIs to work with .tar archives, and additional features as part of an ongoing effort to improve the performance of and add features to regular expressions in .NET 7.  

CVE-2024-38168	.NET Denial of Service Vulnerability	.NET 8.0
CVE-2024-38167	.NET Information Disclosure Vulnerability	.NET 8.0

.NET August updates

The following table includes release notes and binaries for the updates.

.NET 6.0.NET 8.0
Release Notes	6.0.33	8.0.8
Installers and binaries	6.0.33	8.0.8
Container Images	images	images
Linux packages	6.0.33	8.0.8
Known Issues	6.0	8.0

.NET 7 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is now available and includes many great new improvements to ASP.NET Core.

Here’s a summary of what’s new in this preview release:

• Dynamic authentication requests in Blazor WebAssembly
• Handle location changing events
• Blazor WebAssembly debugging improvements
• .NET WebAssembly build tools for .NET 6 projects
• .NET JavaScript interop on WebAssembly
• Kestrel full certificate chain improvements
• Faster HTTP/2 uploads
• HTTP/3 improvements
• Experimental Kestrel support for WebTransport over HTTP/3
• Experimental OpenAPI support for gRPC JSON transcoding
• Rate limiting middleware improvements
• macOS dev-certs improvements 

Imhere-Angular-wizard is a component that will make it easy for you to create wizards in your app. You can check a running example of the wizard  Demo

Application Pools in IIS can be somewhat of a mystery. Since they’re created for you automatically many times Administrators don’t give them a second thought. But understanding application pools is crucial to having a good running IIS server.