Today we are releasing the final version of Entity Framework Core 2.0, alongside .NET Core 2.0 and ASP.NET Core 2.0.

Entity Framework (EF) Core is the lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework, the popular Object/Relational Mapping (O/RM) framework for .NET. 

. Today, we’re thrilled to share that we’re continuing the Angular Momentum with the biggest release since the initial rollout of Angular; making large leaps in reactivity, server-side rendering, and tooling.  

Bootstrap Icons v1.10.0 is here with nearly 150 new icons. This release includes tons of new variants for person, building, and database icons, plus new brands, rockets, road signs, globes, and many more. We’re now at over 1,900 icons! 

Docker lets you build and run apps, more quickly, with less hardware. That’s why application container technology (and Docker in particular) is so popular. You can run hundreds of containers on a server which could only run a handful of VMs, and containers are fast to deploy and can be versioned like the software they run. 

Silver is a free implementation of Apple's Swift programming language.

With Silver, you can use Swift to write code directly against the .NET, Java, Android and Cocoa APIs. And you can also share a lot of non-UI code between platforms. 

The April release of the Azure Data Studio. Included in this release is:

- Added a new Welcome page.
- Added new markdown toolbar for Notebooks.
- Announcing KQL Magic support in Notebooks.
- Charting in SQL Notebooks can now be saved.
- Announcing improvements to Azure Data Studio dashboards.
- Support for Always Encrypted.
- Bug fixes.
 

• The solution name in title bar is truncated.
• Missing interpolation in warning when packaging Cloud Service projects.
• Visual Studio will no longer show an error message on startup after you reset or import settings in certain cases.
• Accessibility issues in Cloud Service projects where wrong inputs in the diagnostics configuration window are not read by screen readers have been fixed. 

PowerShell 7.3 is built on top of .NET 7 and as a non-LTS (Long Term Support) release will be supported for 18 months. PowerShell 7.2 is still the current LTS (3-year supported) release of PowerShell. 

This release include a set of bug fixes reported against TypeScript 2.8.1. For the complete list of fixed issues, check out the fixed issues query for TypeScript 2.8.3.

npm install -g typescript

Bootstrap Icons v1.8.0 is here with over 140 new icons, including dozens of new heart icons ready for Valentine’s Day and dozens of filetype icons. We’re not at almost 1,700 icons and is once again our second largest release. Keep reading to see what’s new.