This is a defense of the most prolific and dedicated public servant that has graced the world in my lifetime. One man has added hundreds of billions, if not trillions of dollars of value to the global economy. This man has worked tirelessly for the benefit of everyone around him. It is impossible to name a publicly traded company that has not somehow benefited from his contributions, and many have benefited to the tune of billions. In return for the countless billions of wealth that people made from the fruits of his labor, he was rewarded with poverty and ridicule. Now that the world is done taking from him, they are heading to the next step of vilifying him as incompetent.

A Mostly Complete Guide to C# 11’s Future Features 

Creating a Dapper Helper C# Class to Generate Parameterized SQL 

In the February 2016 issue of MSDN Magazine, I showed how to create a custom scripting language based on the Split-And-Merge algorithm for parsing mathematical expressions in C# (msdn.com/magazine/mt632273). I called my language Customizable Scripting in C#, or CSCS. Recently, I published an E-book that provided more details about creating a custom language (bit.ly/2yijCod). Creating your own scripting language might not initially seem to be particularly useful, even though there are some interesting applications of it (for example, game cheating). I also found some applications in Unity programming.

This is a jQuery plugin that can determine the coordinates of corners of a HTML page element.  Demo

• Fixed known issue: The debugger's worker process (msvsmon.exe) unexpectedly exited. Debugging will be aborted.
• Fixed known issue: VS 2019 crashes when debugging async code.
• Fixed known issue: Xamarin problem following update to VS2019 16.1.
• Fixed known issue: [Xcode11] [Simulator] Updating to Xcode 11 stops the simulator from launching.
• Improved the reliability of Visual Studio by fixing an intermittent issue that happens when opening solutions.
• Fixed a crash with the search functionality in locals / autos / watch windows when the IDE is not in break mode. 

InfoQ eMag: A Preview of C# 7 eMag 

Stairway to XML

XML has been part of the SQL Standard since 2003, and is essential for any DBA because so many of the dynamic management views return XML data. Now that the industry is more used to data defined by document markup, it is becoming more important than ever for Database Developers and DBAs to understand the technology and to know where it makes sense to use XML. In this book, originally a series of articles on SQLServerCentral.com, Robert Sheldon flexes his talent to make the complicated seem simple.