I just finished teaching the first week of a 9-week, super-intensive, hands-on boot camp that focuses on TypeScript/ASP.NET Web API/AngularJS. I decided to write a series of blog posts that describes each week of the camp. Who makes it. The challenges the students encounter. And, the material that we cover 

• Fast BulkCopy of millions records
• Native SQL operations for updating, deleting, inserting records via LINQ query 

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

• Request decompression middleware
• Output caching middleware
• Updates to rate limiting middleware
• Kestrel support for WebSockets over HTTP/2
• Kestrel performance improvements on high core machines
• Support for logging additional request headers in W3CLogger
• Empty Blazor project templates
• System.Security.Cryptography support on WebAssembly
• Blazor custom elements no longer experimental
• Experimental QuickGrid component for Blazor
• gRPC JSON transcoding multi-segment parameters
• MapGroup support for more extension methods 

This release contains the following improvements and enhancements:

• This release now installs Java™ Development Kit 8, Update 181 (JDK version 8u181). 

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.7.6:

• Visual C++ Redistributable 2017 does not report the install state in a specific registry location.
• In 15.7 users may see extensions load without all of their assets and cause VS to crash. This has been addressed for 15.7.6.
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7.5 crashes when opening a solution. 

"So you shouldn't feel pressured to move off .NET Framework, but just know that it's going to be much more highly targeted compatible fixes kind of going forward and we recommend that all new development that you start on .NET is on .NET Core if possible," 

public static void Main(); This is what most people associate with the entry point of a .NET module. However, as it so turns out, this is not the place where it all begins.  

NuGet 5.8 is included in Visual Studio 16.8 and .NET 5.0 out of the box. You can also download NuGet 5.8 for Windows, macOS, and Linux as a standalone executable. 

SharpLab (previously known as TryRoslyn)

SharpLab is a .NET code playground that shows intermediate steps and results of code compilation

Languages

SharpLab supports three source languages:

1. C#
2. Visual Basic
3. F# 

During the two-day event we will have more than 16 hours of content on subjects such as ASP.NET 5, .NET Core, C#, F#, Roslyn, debugging with VS2015, learnings from running large scale websites, and more!