I was having a chat with a new friend today and we were exchanging stories about being working parents. I struggle with kids' schedules, days off school I failed to plan for, unexpected things (cars break down, kids get sick, life happens) while simultaneously trying to "do my job."  

For .NET and cloud developers, we’ve focused on improving the inner-loop dev experience. New .http/.rest files make it easier to test and iterate on your APIs directly in Visual Studio, while improved Dev Tunnels help streamline the configuration and management of your webhooks. We’ve also made it easier than ever to deploy your ASP.NET apps to containers.

Game developers can now view properties from base classes modified in an Unreal Blueprint asset without leaving the IDE. Visual Studio has improved the cross-platform development experience with a new remote file explorer, Linux Console output to the Integrated Terminal window, dev container improvements, and more.

Beyond individuals, Visual Studio also has new features to better support dev teams at scale, with exportable configuration files and a persistent update toggle helping ensure everyone on your team is working from the latest version of the tool.

This blog covers several of the top new features in Visual Studio 17.5—to see some in action, watch the Visual Studio 17.5 release video. As always lot of these features come straight from your feedback and suggestions. Your feedback is critical to help us make Visual Studio the best tool it can be! 

In this article, I'm going to talk about some of my favorite tips and tricks about my favorite IDE, VS Code. Although I'm writing this on a Mac, many of these concepts will port to Windows, so you may have to replace COMMAND key, WIN key, etc.

<link href="Content/kendo.dataviz.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="Content/kendo.dataviz.default.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />

<div id="chart"></div>

<div id="chart" style="width: 400px; height: 600px"></div>

$("#chart").kendoChart();

$("#chart").kendoChart({
    title: {
         text: "چارت آزمایشی"
    }
});

$("#chart").kendoChart({
    title: {
         text: "عنوان چارت"
    },
    series: [
         { name: "داده‌های چارت", data: [200, 450, 300, 125] }
    ]
});

$("#chart").kendoChart({
                title: {
                    text: "عنوان چارت"
                },
                series: [
                     {
                         name: "داده‌های چارت",
                         data: [200, 450, 300, 125]
                     }
                ],
                categoryAxis: {
                    categories: [2000, 2001, 2002, 2003]
                }
            });

public class ProductsController : ApiController
    {
        public IEnumerable<ProductViewModel> Get()
        {
            var products = _productService.GetAllProducts();
            var query = products.GroupBy(p => p.Name).Select(p => new ProductViewModel
            {
                Value = p.Key,
                Count = p.Count()
            });
            return query;
        }
    }

    public class ProductViewModel
    {
        public string Value { get; set; }
        public int Count { get; set; }
    }

var productsDataSource = new kendo.data.DataSource({
                transport: {
                    read: {
                        url: "api/products",
                        dataType: "json",
                        contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
                        type: 'GET'
                    }
                },
                error: function (e) {
                    alert(e.errorThrown.stack);
                },
                pageSize: 5,
                sort: { field: "Id", dir: "desc" }
            });

            $("#chart").kendoChart({
                title: {
                    text: "عنوان چارت"
                },
                dataSource: productsDataSource,
                series: [
                    {
                        field: "Count",
                        categoryField: "Value",
                        aggregate: "sum"
                    }
                ]
            });

(function($) {
    $.fn.ShowChart = function(options) {
        var defaults = {
            url: '/',
            text: 'نمودار دایره ایی',
            theme: 'blueOpal',
            font: '13px bbc-nassim-bold',
            legendPosition: 'left',
            seriesField: 'Count',
            seriesCategoryField: 'Value',
            titlePosition: 'top',
            chartWidth: 400,
            chartHeight: 400
        };
        var options = $.extend(defaults, options);
        return this.each(function() {
            var chartDataSource = new kendo.data.DataSource({
                transport: {
                    read: {
                        url: options.url,
                        dataType: "json",
                        contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
                        type: 'GET'
                    }
                },
                error: function (e) {
                    // handle error
                }
            });
            $(this).kendoChart({
                chartArea: {
                    height: options.chartHeight
                },
                theme: options.theme,
                title: {
                    text: options.text,
                    font: options.font,
                    position: options.titlePosition
                },
                legend: {
                    position: options.legendPosition,
                    labels: {
                        font: options.font
                    }
                },
                seriesDefaults: {
                    labels: {
                        visible: false,
                        format: "{0}%"
                    }
                },
                dataSource: chartDataSource,
                series: [
                    {
                        type: "pie",
                        field: options.seriesField,
                        categoryField: options.seriesCategoryField,
                        aggregate: "sum",
                    }
                ],
                tooltip: {
                    visible: true,
                    template: "${category}: ${value}",
                    font: options.font
                }
            });
            
        });
    };
})(jQuery);

$('#chart').ShowChart({
                        url: "/Report/ByUnit",
                        legendPosition: "bottom"
});

<roleManager 
    enabled="true" 
    cacheRolesInCookie="true" 
    defaultProvider="..."
    cookieName=".ASPXROLES" 
    cookiePath="/" 
    cookieTimeout="30" 
    cookieRequireSSL="false" 
    cookieSlidingExpiration="true"
    createPersistentCookie="false" 
    cookieProtection="All">
    <providers>
      <!-- .... -->
    </providers>
</roleManager>

Assume that you set the value of the cachedRolesInCookie property to true in your web application. 
Your application serializes the RolePrincipal object into the cookie, and then sends it in response. 
In this situation, the role cookie value is empty in the application's following request.

One of the main reasons for using .NET Core is that you can run it on multiple platforms and architectures. So you can build an app that will run on Windows, but also on Linux, macOS and on different architectures like x86 and ARM. This is perfect for lots of scenarios, including desktop applications. 

Google announced the Android App Bundle AAB  in 2018 and it looked like a good idea - better than the APK we have all been used to. Now it has been announced that in August 2021 the APK will be phased out in favour of the AAB. andro

JSON Web Token is a security token which acts as a container for claims about the user, it can be transmitted easily between the Authorization server (Token Issuer), and the Resource server (Audience), the claims in JWT are encoded using JSON which make it easier to use especially in applications built using JavaScript.