When a VM is loaded, it contains

• Windows 10, version 2004 (10.0.19041.0)
• Windows 10 SDK, version 2004 (10.0.19041.0)
• Visual Studio 2019 (latest as of 6/15/20) with the UWP, .NET desktop, and Azure workflows enabled and also includes the Windows Template Studio extension
• Visual Studio Code (latest as of 6/15/20)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux enabled with Ubuntu installed
• Developer mode enabled 

JazSharp is a unit testing framework for .NET that works very similar to Jasmine:

• Tests are defined using Describe and It

• Method calls can be replaced with spies allowing you to truly isolate the code you are testing

• Full set of Assets (known as Expects) including ToHaveBeenCalledWith, ToEqual and ToContain which perform recursive comparisons 

The new i18n story in Angular

Internationalization support in Angular has been very poor so far. You might know that there’s anngLocalemodule you need to include, which is used by a couple components, likengPluralize,dateandcurrencyfilter to name a few, and that’s pretty much it. As we’ve already discussed, there’s so much more that comes into play when internationalizing an application, which is why there’s finally a new solution evolving that will bring first-class i18n support to the Angular framework. 

• Add foreign key constraint checking to the in-memory provider
Reasoning: It is desirable for foreign keys to be validated when running unit tests. This allows bugs to be caught earlier without the need for integration testing against a real database.

Speed up your builds of SDK-style .NET projects

Drew shows how you can dramatically reduce build times for SDK-style .NET projects.  

Microsoft yesterday shipped Visual Studio 2019 16.3 Preview 4, adding database profiling for projects based on .NET Core, which is coming out in a big v3.0 release next week.  

I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to setup and install ASP.NET Core 2.1 on Linux. I did it for the first time in 15 minutes with no previous experience with .NET Core on Linux. I did it the second time, in production, in 5 minutes by following these instructions.

In this article, I show you how to install the .NET Core runtime on CentOS, how to get a sample ASP.NET Core project running on Kestrel as a service for reliability, and how to configure both the code and the firewall to enable remote access. Finally, I discuss what I would do differently for actual production usage. 

A .NET Standard 2.1 library to run C# code in parallel on the GPU through DX12 and dynamically generated HLSL compute shaders 

It stemmed from HipHop for PHP, an earlier project at Facebook which compiled PHP into C++ code