[CLI] Build-time performance improvements.
[CLI] Global tools; replaces .NET CLI Tools (DotNetCliToolReference).
[CoreCLR] Minor-version roll-forward.
[CoreCLR] No-copy array slicing with Span<T>.
[CoreFX] HttpClient performance improvements.
[CoreFX] Windows Compatibility Pack.
[ASP.NET] SignalR is available for .NET Core.
[ASP.NET] HTTPS is on by default for ASP.NET.
[EF] Basic lazy loading support.
[EF] Support for Azure Cosmos DB.

• Accessibility improvements in narration, high contrast and focus control areas
• .NET Framework support for .NET Standard 2.0 and compiler features
• More secure SHA-2 support in ASP.NET and System.Messaging
• Configuration builders
• ASP.NET Execution step feature
• ASP.NET HttpCookie parsing
• Enhancements in Visual Tree for WPF applications
• Performance and reliability improvements 

A common question from customers is how to have an RPC (as in .NET Remoting and Windows Communication Foundation) experience on .NET Core. We are contributing to the gRPC (grpc.io) project to ensure gRPC will have first-class support for .NET developers. 

var blogs = context.Blogs
    .FromSql("SELECT * FROM dbo.Blogs")
    .ToList();

var blogs = context.Blogs
  .FromSql("EXECUTE dbo.GetMostPopularBlogs")
  .ToList();

var user = "johndoe";

var blogs = context.Blogs
  .FromSql("EXECUTE dbo.GetMostPopularBlogsForUser {0}", user)
  .ToList();

var user = new SqlParameter("user", "johndoe");
var blogs = context.Blogs
  .FromSql("EXECUTE dbo.GetMostPopularBlogsForUser @user", user)
  .ToList();

 var results = _context.Contacts.FromSql(
@"SELECT Id, Name Address, City, State, Zip 
    FROM Contacts 
    WHERE Name IN (@p0, @p1)", name1, name2);

var nameParameter = new SqlParameter
{
  ParameterName = "@name",
  Value = "doc",
  Direction = ParameterDirection.Input,
  SqlDbType = SqlDbType.NVarChar
};

var posts = context.Posts
  .FromSql("SELECT * FROM dbo.GetMatchingPostByTitle({0})", searchTerm)
  .Where(p => p.BlogId == 1)
  .OrderByDescending(p => p.CreateDate)
  .ToList();

var searchTerm = ".NET";
var blogs = context.Blogs
  .FromSql("SELECT * FROM dbo.SearchBlogs {0}", searchTerm)
  .Include(b => b.Posts)
  .ToList();

  context.Database.ExecuteSqlCommand("UPDATE dbo.People SET FirstName = 'Jane' WHERE PersonId = 30");

context.Database.ExecuteSqlCommand("usp_CreateShipper @p0, @p1",
  parameters: new[] { "hello", "world" });

using (var connection = context.Database.GetDbConnection())
{
    connection.Open();
 
    using (var command = connection.CreateCommand())
    {
        command.CommandText = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Contacts";
        var result = command.ExecuteScalar().ToString();
    }
}

Starting with the 2021.2 releases of our .NET productivity tools, including ReSharper and Rider (on Windows), we will require .NET Framework 4.7.2 or newer installed on your machine. Earlier versions of our .NET tools will continue to work on .NET Framework 4.6.1. 

.NET Tools are great, and we've known them for a while in .NET Core as ".NET Core Global Tools", but often we don't want these tools not to be shared globally across our machine. This is where "Local Tools" come in handy, introduced in .NET Core SDK 3.0. 

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In this post I will describe how to get most out of the newest version Entity Framework v 2.2 to support pure domain modeling as much as possible. 

In this course, we're going to be covering the fundamentals of Angular 2 to get you up & running as fast as possible. 

        private static ObjectQuery TryGetObjectQuery<T>(IQueryable<T> source)
        {
            var dbQuery = source as DbQuery<T>;

            if (dbQuery != null)
            {
                const BindingFlags privateFieldFlags = 
                    BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Public;

                var internalQuery =
                    source.GetType().GetProperty("InternalQuery", privateFieldFlags)
                        .GetValue(source);

                return
                    (ObjectQuery)internalQuery.GetType().GetProperty("ObjectQuery", privateFieldFlags)
                        .GetValue(internalQuery);
            }

            return null;
        }

 PM> Install-Package EFSecondLevelCache

 var products = context.Products.Include(x => x.Tags).FirstOrDefault();

 var products = context.Products.Include(x => x.Tags).Cacheable().FirstOrDefault(); // Async methods are supported too.

namespace EFSecondLevelCache.TestDataLayer.DataLayer
{
    public class SampleContext : DbContext
    {
        // public DbSet<Product> Products { get; set; }
 
        public SampleContext()
            : base("connectionString1")
        {
        }
 
        public override int SaveChanges()
        {
            return SaveAllChanges(invalidateCacheDependencies: true);
        }
 
        public int SaveAllChanges(bool invalidateCacheDependencies = true)
        {
            var changedEntityNames = getChangedEntityNames();
            var result = base.SaveChanges();
            if (invalidateCacheDependencies)
            {
               new EFCacheServiceProvider().InvalidateCacheDependencies(changedEntityNames);
            }
            return result;
        }
 
        private string[] getChangedEntityNames()
        {
            return this.ChangeTracker.Entries()
                .Where(x => x.State == EntityState.Added ||
                            x.State == EntityState.Modified ||
                            x.State == EntityState.Deleted)
                .Select(x => ObjectContext.GetObjectType(x.Entity.GetType()).FullName)
                .Distinct()
                .ToArray();
        }
    }
}