I’m always delighted to see SQLite taking further steps forward as it powers so much of the world today (and often silently). 3.31.0’s big new feature is support for generated columns . 

.NET 6 includes preview support for HTTP/3:

• In Kestrel, HTTP.Sys & IIS for ASP.NET for server scenarios
• In HttpClient to make outbound requests
• For gRPC 

SQL Server 2016 and JSON Support 

Today, the Entity Framework Core team announces the second preview release of EF Core 6.0. This release includes changes to handling the synchronization context when SaveChangesAsync is called, smoother integration with System.Linq.Async, updates to string concatenation and improvements to free text search. 

• We have two new refactorings for global usings, Extract Global Using and Inline Global Using, with Find Usages support for this feature.
• For nullable reference types, we’ve split the “should never be null” warning into two categories: one for those who look at NRT annotation and one for those who have a runtime check for null. We’ve also added a setting to enable runtime enforced not null warnings only, and supported [MemberNotNull] and [MemberNotNullWhen] annotations.
• We’ve implemented generic attributes support for C#11. 

You can download .NET 6 Preview 3, for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

• Installers and binaries
• Container images
• Linux packages
• Release notes
• Known issues
• GitHub issue tracker  

The first 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 currently targets .NET 6. 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. 

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.  

import { HttpClient } from "@angular/common/http";
import { Injectable } from "@angular/core";

@Injectable()
export class AppConfigService {

    private config: IAppConfig;

    constructor(private http: HttpClient) { }

    loadClientConfig(): Promise<any> {
        return this.http.get<IAppConfig>("assets/client-config.json")
            .toPromise()
            .then(config => {
                this.config = config;
                console.log("Config", this.config);
            })
            .catch(err => {
                return Promise.reject(err);
            });
    }

    get configuration(): IAppConfig {
        if (!this.config) {
            throw new Error("Attempted to access configuration property before configuration data was loaded.");
        }
        return this.config;
    }
}

export interface IAppConfig {
    apiEndpoint: string;
    loginPath: string;
    logoutPath: string;
    refreshTokenPath: string;
    accessTokenObjectKey: string;
    refreshTokenObjectKey: string;
    adminRoleName: string;
}

import { NgModule, Optional, SkipSelf, APP_INITIALIZER } from "@angular/core";
import { CommonModule } from "@angular/common";
import { RouterModule } from "@angular/router";
import { HTTP_INTERCEPTORS } from "@angular/common/http";

// import RxJs needed operators only once
import "./services/rxjs-operators";

import { HeaderComponent } from "./component/header/header.component";
import { AuthGuard } from "./services/auth.guard";
import { AuthInterceptor } from "./services/auth.interceptor";
import { AuthService } from "./services/auth.service";
import { AppConfigService } from "./services/app-config.service";
import { BrowserStorageService } from "./services/browser-storage.service";


@NgModule({
    imports: [CommonModule, RouterModule],
    exports: [
        // components that are used in app.component.ts will be listed here.
        HeaderComponent
    ],
    declarations: [
        // components that are used in app.component.ts will be listed here.
        HeaderComponent
    ],
    providers: [
        // global singleton services of the whole app will be listed here.
        BrowserStorageService,
        AppConfigService,
        AuthService,
        AuthGuard,
        {
            provide: HTTP_INTERCEPTORS,
            useClass: AuthInterceptor,
            multi: true
        },
        {
            provide: APP_INITIALIZER,
            useFactory: (config: AppConfigService) => () => config.loadClientConfig(),
            deps: [AppConfigService ],
            multi: true
        }
    ]
})
export class CoreModule {
    constructor( @Optional() @SkipSelf() core: CoreModule) {
        if (core) {
            throw new Error("CoreModule should be imported ONLY in AppModule.");
        }
    }
}

Error: Provider parse errors:
Cannot instantiate cyclic dependency! ApplicationRef ("[ERROR ->]"): in NgModule AppModule in ./AppModule@-1:-1 

With .NET 6 Preview 3, you can use hot reloading with your ASP.NET Core apps. Hot reloading supercharges your productivity and allows you to see your changes in real-time.