Here are a couple of the most relevant improvements you may want to verify:

• Work on the EF Core in-memory provider was finished and most query features should now be working (the majority of it went into RC1)
• EF Core’s compilation performance was improved significantly for complex queries 

For .NET Core 3.0, we’re shipping a brand new namespace called System.Text.Json with support for a reader/writer, a document object model (DOM), and a serializer. In this blog post, I’m telling you why we built it, how it works, and how you can try it. 

ExtCore allows you to decouple your application into the modules (or extensions) and reuse that modules in other applications in various combinations. Each ExtCore extension may consist of one or more projects and each project may include everything you want (as any other ASP.NET Core project). Controllers, view components, views (added as resources and/or precompiled), static content (added as resources) will be resolved automatically. These projects (extension pieces) may be added to the application directly as dependencies in project.json of your main application project (as source code or NuGet packages), or by copying compiled DLL-files to the Extensions folder. ExtCore supports both of these approaches out of the box and at the same time. 

The fourth preview of Entity Framework Core (EF Core) 8 is available on NuGet today!

Basic information

EF Core 8, or just EF8, is the successor to EF Core 7, and is scheduled for release in November 2023, at the same time as .NET 8.

EF8 previews currently target .NET 6, and can therefore be used with either .NET 6 (LTS) or .NET 7. This will likely be updated to .NET 8 as we near release.

EF8 will align with .NET 8 as a long-term support (LTS) release. See the .NET support policy for more information. 

Unhandled exceptions are a bit of a misnomer. In .NET, every exception is handled. By the time you access the specifics of an error in your Try-Catch block, the Framework has already analyzed the problem, built a structure to contain its details, examined the stack trace, and used reflection to pinpoint the location of the error, among other mundane tasks. In short, when errors occur, .NET serves them up to your code in a neatly packaged, highly examinable data block.

Easy to get started sample reference microservice and container based application. Cross-platform on Linux and Windows Docker Containers, powered by .NET Core 2.0 and Docker engine. Supports Visual Studio 2017, VS for Mac and CLI based environments with Docker CLI, dotnet CLI, VS Code or any other code editor.  

 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries

Ultimate Javascript Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) and JSON Web Token (JWT) Implementation for .NET and .NET Core  

With the .NET 6 preview 4 we now have Ahead-Of-Time compilation for Blazor Wasm. This is an example of improved performance for one of my projects.