In a Visual Studio Live! conference keynote Tuesday a couple of Microsoft program managers were on hand to discuss what's going on with .NET today and tomorrow, clearly signaling that .NET Core is the future of the ecosystem and that programmers should use it for all new development projects.  

Oracle is seeking as much as $9.3 billion in damages in a long-running copyright lawsuit against Google over its use of Java in Android, court filings show. Oracle sued Google six years ago, claiming the search giant needs a license to use parts of the Java platform in Google's market-leading mobile OS. 

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.9.2:

• MFC EXE (binary) size is 5 times bigger in VS 15.8 (_MSC_VER = 1915).
• Key 'OPENSSH' is not supported.
• Windows magnifier can no longer track keyboad cursor.
• Analysis fails with immediately-invoked lamba in while loop.
• Xamarin iOS designer not working with 15.9 and Xamarin.iOS 12.2.1.10.
• We improved the reliability of incremental linking for large C++ projects.
• LNK2001 "unresolved external symbol" errors for certain vector deleting destructors will now be resolved.
• Compiler execution time has been improved for code that makes heavy use of chained, inline functions involving lambdas or local classes as parameter or return types. 

This command allows cleaning up project and assembly references that have no actual usages in source code. You can apply this command on a project, solution folder, or the entire solution. Before deletion is complete, you will be able to see all references that are going to be removed and. if necessary, preserve the ones that you want to keep.

In this episode, Robert is joined by Mads Kristensen, who shows us the Web Extension Pack. This extension installs a number of extensions that help you become a more productive Web developer. The extensions contained in the Web Extension Pack have been proven to be stable over time and useful for all Web developers. 

Cayley is an open-source graph inspired by the graph database behind Freebase and Google's Knowledge Graph.

Features 

• Community driven
• Written in Go
  • can be used as a Go library
• Easy to get running (3 or 4 commands)
• RESTful API
  • or a REPL if you prefer
• Built-in query editor and visualizer
• Multiple query languages:
  • Gizmo - a JavaScript, with a Gremlin-inspired* graph object.
  • GraphQL-inspired* query language.
  • (simplified) MQL, for Freebase fans
• Plays well with multiple backend stores:
  • KVs: Bolt, LevelDB
  • NoSQL: MongoDB, ElasticSearch, CouchDB/PouchDB
  • SQL: PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, MySQL
  • In-memory, ephemeral
• Modular design; easy to extend with new languages and backends
• Good test coverage
• Speed, where possible. 

My last post investigated ways to build a .NET Core desktop/console app with a web-rendered UI without bringing in the full weight of Electron. This seems to have interested a lot of people, so I decided to upgrade it to newer technologies and add cross-platform support.

The result is a little NuGet package called WebWindow that you can add to any .NET Core console app. It can open a native OS window (Windows/Mac/Linux) containing web-based UI, without your app having to bundle either Node or Chromium. 

This ebook is no fluff–just a developer-to-developer breakdown of what’s in store for .NET in 2015. Included are code snippets and step-by-step tutorials on handy new features and techniques.