SQL Server 2019 introduces support for the widely used UTF-8 character encoding. This has been a longtime requested feature and can be set as a database-level or column-level default encoding for Unicode string data.  

Building Microservices On .NET Core – Part 1 The Plan 

A toolkit for building rich console apps for .NET, .NET Core, and Mono that works on Windows, the Mac, and Linux/Unix. 

ASP.NET Core Tutorial for Beginners

Learn how to build a complete REST API, step by step, using ASP.NET Core and the C# language. 

Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI
.NET MAUI simplifies the choices for .NET developers, providing a single stack that supports all modern workloads: Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows.
 

Trying .NET Core on Linux with just a tarball (without apt-get) 

.NET 7 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is now available and includes many great new improvements to ASP.NET Core.

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

• Dynamic authentication requests in Blazor WebAssembly
• Handle location changing events
• Blazor WebAssembly debugging improvements
• .NET WebAssembly build tools for .NET 6 projects
• .NET JavaScript interop on WebAssembly
• Kestrel full certificate chain improvements
• Faster HTTP/2 uploads
• HTTP/3 improvements
• Experimental Kestrel support for WebTransport over HTTP/3
• Experimental OpenAPI support for gRPC JSON transcoding
• Rate limiting middleware improvements
• macOS dev-certs improvements 

Ready to get started with Visual Studio 2017? This is your course! Join the experts and get the details, from installation to debugging, in this practical Visual Studio 2017 deep dive.

See how to download and install Visual Studio in standalone and networked environments, along with some of the configuration options, such as choosing your workloads (types of apps or services, languages, and platforms), customizing the installation, and installing language packs. Then, take a tour of the Visual Studio IDE, including all the basics you need to get started with your development projects. Finally, explore debugging in Visual Studio, and learn how to use its features to investigate problems in your code.