Installing Visual Studio 2019 16.4 will also install .NET Core 3.1 Preview 3, so you don’t need to separately install it. For Blazor development with .NET Core 3.1, Visual Studio 2019 16.4 is required.
SQL Server 2019 preview builds on previous releases to grow SQL Server as a platform that gives you choices of development languages, data types, on-premises or cloud, and operating systems. This article summarizes what is new for SQL Server 2019.
A C# 6.0 Language Preview
Next-Generation Development with Application Insights
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Next-Generation Development with Application Insights
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Fixed
- Fixed Kerberos authentication failure when using .NET 6. #1411
- Fixed connection failure when using
SqlLocalDBinstance pipe name. #1433 - Fixed a failure when executing concurrent queries requiring enclaves. #1451
- Updated obsolete API calls targeting .NET 6. #1401
Changed
- Added AppContext switch
SuppressInsecureTLSWarningto allow suppression of TLS security warning when usingEncrypt=falsein the connection string. #1457
Here’s a quick list of what’s new in TypeScript 4.6!
Allowing Code in Constructors Before super()
Improved Recursion Depth Checks
Indexed Access Inference Improvements
Control Flow Analysis for Dependent Parameters
More Syntax and Binding Errors in JavaScript
TypeScript Trace Analyzer
Breaking Changes
- Moved from Less to Sass
- Improved grid system
- Opt-in flexbox support is here
- Dropped wells, thumbnails, and panels for cards
- Consolidated all our HTML resets into a new module, Reboot
- Brand new customization options
- Dropped IE8 support and moved to rem and em units
- Rewrote all our JavaScript plugins
- Improved auto-placement of tooltips and popovers
- And tons more!
The collection includes 14 different tools including a Json to Yaml and Yaml to Json converter, a JWT decoder, a Text compare tool, and more.
The full list includes:
- Converters
- Json <> Yaml
- Number Base
- Encoders / Decoders
- HTML
- URL
- Base64
- JWT Decoder
- Formatters
- Json
- Generators
- Hash (MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512)
- UUID 1 and 4
- Lorem Ipsum
- Text
- Inspector & Case Converter
- Regex Tester
- Text Comparer
- Markdown Preview
- Graphic
- Color Blindness Simulator
- PNG / JPEG Compressor
Some of the tools will have wider appeal, for example, the text comparison tool would be useful for writers and solicitors alike, while the PNG/JPEG compressor could help webmasters. Expect more utilities to join the bundle in the future.
The collection is free, and can be accessed via GitHub here or free via the Microsoft Store.
Microsoft's release notes highlights for Preview 3 include:
- Visual Studio now offers .NET Framework 4.7.2 development tools to supported platforms with 4.7.2 runtime included.
- We improved performance during project unload/reload and branch switching.
- With added support for Azure Functions, you now have a new target host in the Configure Continuous Delivery to Azure dialog.
- Git and TFS status now updates properly for external file changes in .NET Core projects.
- We added new productivity features, such as code cleanup, invert-if refactoring, Go to Enclosing Block, Multi-Caret support, and new keyboard profiles.
- C++ enhancements include Template IntelliSense, convert macro to constexpr lightbulbs, and experimental in-editor code analysis squiggles.
- You can now use cross-language debugging with Python 3.7.0rc1.
- Performance Profiling now offers the ability to pause/resume data collection and adds a new .NET Object Allocation Tracking tool.
- We included improvements for Android incremental builds in the Xamarinsupport for Xcode 9.4.
When you go to https://vscode.dev, you'll be presented with a lightweight version of VS Code running fully in the browser. Open a folder on your local machine and start coding.
No install required.
Domain Driven Design: The Good Parts
The greenfield project started out so promising. Instead of devolving into big ball of mud, the team decided to apply domain-driven design principles. Ubiquitous language, proper boundaries, encapsulation, it all made sense.
But along the way, something went completely and utterly wrong. It started with arguments on the proper way of implementing aggregates and entities. Arguments began over project and folder structure. Someone read a blog post that repositories are evil, and ORMs the devil incarnate. Another read that relational databases are last century, we need to store everything as a stream of events. Then came the actor model and frameworks that sounded like someone clearing their throat. Instead of a nice, clean architecture, the team chased the next new approach without ever actually shipping anything.
Beyond the endless technical arguments it causes, domain-driven design can actually produce great software. We have to look past the hype into the true value of DDD, what it can bring to our organizations and how it can enable us to build quality systems. With the advent of microservices, DDD is more important than ever - but only if we can get to the good parts.
