• Linux support for tier-1, mission-critical workloads – SQL Server 2017 support for Linux includes the same high availability solutions on Linux as Windows Server, including Always On availability groups integrated with Linux native clustering solutions like Pacemaker.
• Graph data processing in SQL Server – With the graph data features available in SQL Server 2017and Azure SQL Database, customers can create nodes and edges, and discover complex and many-to-many relationships.
• Adaptive query processing – Adaptive query processing is a family of features in SQL Server 2017 that automatically keeps database queries running as efficiently as possible without requiring additional tuning from database administrators. In addition to the capability to adjust batch mode memory grants, the feature set includes batch mode adaptive joins and interleaved execution capabilities.
• Python integration for advanced analytics – Microsoft Machine Learning Services now brings you the ability to run in-database analytics using Python or R in a parallelized and scalable way. The ability to run advanced analytics in your operational store without ETL means faster time to insights for customers while easy deployment and rich extensibility make it fast to get up and running on the right model. 

In the .NET community standup YouTube stream it was just confirmed that WPF maintenance has been outsourced to IDC [Microsoft India Development Center] where projects historically has gone to die. So no one left in Redmond really working on it. 

Marten 3.0 is live on Nuget. It didn’t turn out to be a huge release, but we needed to accommodate the Npgsql 4.* dependency and I felt like that was a breaking change, so here we go.  

.NET Conf is a free, three-day, virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft. This year .NET 6 will launch at .NET Conf 2021! 

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in this version:

Visual Studio crashes when you open a solution with a test project.
Visual Studio Freezes in Debug with Chrome.
Failure to install HelpViewer.
UI delay while typing R code.
C# 7.0 Regression in Tuples.
Xamarin - Dynamic Type Platform not supported exception.
Xamarin – Dynamic object is not supported.
Xamarin - Xamarin.iOS: ArgumentNullException for instruction parameter in Mono.Linker's MarkException() method.

It was a legacy enterprise project and I was asked to improve its “advanced” filtering capabilities.

Before they had something like this:

But wanted something like this:

 

public class Person 
{ 
    public string _firstName; 
 
    public string FirstName 
    { 
        get 
        { 
            return _firstName; 
        } 
        set 
        { 
            _firstName = value; 
        } 
    }  
}

public string _firstName; 
public string FirstName 
{ 
    get 
    { 
        return _firstName; 
    } 
    private set 
    { 
        _firstName = value; 
    } 
}

public class Person
{
   public string FirstName { get; set; }
}

public class User
{
   public string Name { get; private set; }
}

public class User
{
   public string Name { get; }
}

public class Foo
{
   public string FirstName { get; set; } = "Initial Value";
}

public class Foo
{  
   public DateTime DateOfBirth { get; set; }
   public int Age => DateTime.Now.Year - DateOfBirth.Year;  
}

public class User
{
   public string Name { get; private set; }
}

var user = new User
{
   Name = "User 1" // Compile Error
};

The property or indexer 'User.Name' cannot be used in this context
because the set accessor is inaccessible [CS9Features]csharp(CS0272)

public class User
{
  public User(string name)
  {
    this.Name = name;
  }

  public void SetName(string name)
  {
    this.Name = name;
  }

  public string Name { get; private set; }
}

public class User
{
   public string Name { get; init; }
}

var user = new User
{
   Name = "User 1"
};

// Compile Time Error
// Init-only property or indexer 'User.Name' can only be assigned in an object initializer,
// or on 'this' or 'base' in an instance constructor or an 'init' accessor. [CS9Features]csharp(CS8852)
user.Name = "Test";

public class User
{
   public string Name { get; init; }

   public User(string name)
   {
     this.Name = name; // Works fine
   }

   public void SetName(string name)
   {
     this.Name = name; // Compile Time Error
   }
}

    public class Product
    {
        public Product(string name)
        {
            _name = name;
        }

        private readonly string _name;

        public string Name => _name;
    }

    public class Person
    {
        private readonly string _name;

        public string Name
        {
            get => _name;
            init => _name = value;
        }
    }

This post summarizes the answers and my own opinion on where C# and F# shine. 

The code for this book is based on C# v6.0 and runs in Visual Studio 2015

HTTP Error 403.14 - Forbidden
The Web server is configured to not list the contents of this directory.
Most likely causes:

    A default document is not configured for the requested URL, and directory browsing is not enabled on the server.

Things you can try:

    If you do not want to enable directory browsing, ensure that a default document is configured and that the file exists.
    Enable directory browsing using IIS Manager.
        Open IIS Manager.
        In the Features view, double-click Directory Browsing.
        On the Directory Browsing page, in the Actions pane, click Enable.
    Verify that the configuration/system.webServer/directoryBrowse@enabled attribute is set to true in the site or application configuration file.

Detailed Error Information:
Module DirectoryListingModule
Notification ExecuteRequestHandler
Handler StaticFile
Error Code 0x00000000
Requested URL http://localhost:80/3724/
Physical Path C:\inetpub\wwwroot\3724\
Logon Method Anonymous
Logon User Anonymous