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.

Professional REST API design with ASP.NET Core and WebAPI

This project is an example of lightweight and extensible infrastructure for building RESTful Web API with ASP.NET Core.

This example contains a number of tricks and techniques which I've learned while building APIs in ASP.NET Core.

Techniques and Features

•  JWT Authentication
• Secure JWT using Encryption (JWE)
• Logging to File, Console and Database using Elmah & NLog
• Logging to sentry.io (Log Management System)
• Exception Handling using Custom Middleware
• Automatic Validation
• Standard API Resulting
• Dependency Injection using Autofac
• Map resources using AutoMapper
• Async/Await Best Practices
• Versioning Management
• Using Swagger (Swashbuckle)
• Auto Document Generator for Swagger
• Integrate Swagger and Versioning
• Integrate Swagger and JWT/OAuth Authentication
• Best Practices for Performance and Security 

Bridge Network Driver

The bridge networking driver is the first driver on our list. It’s simple to understand, simple to use, and simple to troubleshoot, which makes it a good networking choice for developers and those new to Docker. The bridge driver creates a private network internal to the host so containers on this network can communicate. External access is granted by exposing ports to containers. Docker secures the network by managing rules that block connectivity between different Docker networks. 

Overlay Network Driver

The built-in Docker overlay network driver radically simplifies many of the complexities in multi-host networking. It is a swarm scope driver, which means that it operates across an entire Swarm or UCP cluster rather than individual hosts. With the overlay driver, multi-host networks are first-class citizens inside Docker without external provisioning or components. IPAM, service discovery, multi-host connectivity, encryption, and load balancing are built right in. For control, the overlay driver uses the encrypted Swarm control plane to manage large scale clusters at low convergence times. 

MACVLAN Driver

The macvlan driver is the newest built-in network driver and offers several unique characteristics. It’s a very lightweight driver, because rather than using any Linux bridging or port mapping, it connects container interfaces directly to host interfaces. Containers are addressed with routable IP addresses that are on the subnet of the external network.

As a result of routable IP addresses, containers communicate directly with resources that exist outside a Swarm cluster without the use of NAT and port mapping. This can aid in network visibility and troubleshooting. Additionally, the direct traffic path between containers and the host interface helps reduce latency. macvlan is a local scope network driver which is configured per-host. As a result, there are stricter dependencies between MACVLAN and external networks, which is both a constraint and an advantage that is different from overlay or bridge. 

the top 20 constitutes a cast of familiar characters:

1. JavaScript
2. Java
3. Python
4. PHP
5. C++
6. C#
7. CSS
8. Ruby
9. C
10. TypeScript
11. Swift
12. Objective-C
13. Scala
14. Shell
15. R
16. Go
17. PowerShell
18. Perl
19. Haskell
20. Kotlin  

.NET 4.7.2 is for streaming data into memory between 2% (Unsafe Parse x86), 7% (Unsafe Parse x64) and 40% (Span Parse x64) slower than .NET Core. Especially the 40% speed drop for Span based Apis due to the lack of JIT support by the .NET Runtime is unfortunate.  

Samsung has released the fourth preview of Visual Studio Tools for Tizen. Tizen is a Linux-based open source OS running on over 50 million Samsung devices including TVs, wearables, and mobile phones. Since announcing its collaboration with Microsoft on .NET Core and Xamarin.Forms projects last November, Samsung has steadily released preview versions of.NET support for Tizen with enriched features, such as supporting TV application development and various Visual Studio tools for Tizen.

A curated list of awesome articles and resources for learning and practicing about .Net Core and its related technologies 

We are very pleased to announce the launch of our Open Source project - Fast Report Open Source.
We are hoping to develop a friendly community of .Net Core developers who will share our eagerness to create fast, powerful and convenient reporting tool for Windows, Windows Server, Linux and MacOS.
We also encourage you to be a part of the global reporting team! Join us on GitHub: github.com/FastReports/FastReport 

Thinktecture.IdentityManager as a replacement for the ASP.NET WebSite Administration tool  

This release will be shortly followed by R Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio 2017 in early May. RTVS is a free and open source plug-in that turns Visual Studio into a powerful and productive R development environment.