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FEATURES

 •   JSON & JSONP support

 •   Syntax highlighting

 •   Collapsible trees, with indent guides

 •   Clickable URLs

 •   Toggle between raw and parsed JSON

 •   Works on any valid JSON page – URL doesn't matter

 •   Works on local files too (if you enable this in chrome://extensions)

 •   You can inspect the JSON by typing "json" in the console 

• WMI Provider MSI still failing to install in 16.6
• View History on context menu in Solution Explorer doesn't do anything
• Cannot generate shim for X509Certificate2 with Visual Studio 2019 16.6.0
• Add Controller and Add New Scaffolded Item dialogs are not showing all data contexts after upgrading Visual Studio Enterprise 16.5.6->16.6.0
• Cannot open new json file
• About Microsoft Visual Studio frozen.
• Visual Studio 2019 16.6.0 Microsoft Fakes Issue
• VSSDK IVsHierarchy Regression in VS 16.6.x
• Windows 10 SDK (10.0.19041.1)- ARM64 memcpy crashes when accessing unaligned uncached memory
• Add script to SQL Server Database project does not open User Scripts list
• Fakes generation with ref argument
• Frequent soft hang with Code Analysis callstack in Open Folder project
• Visual Studio Class Designer dark theme support
• Added support for Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) in .NET Core projects
• Separate IntelliCode team completions model acquisition from model production.
• Addressed an issue where users may have experienced critical update or installation failures due to the WMIProvider package that would block use of the IDE. Failures in this component no longer block use of the IDE.
• Fixed a problem causing the product to stop responding when working with Xamarin projects on certain scenarios.
• Fixed a bug where VS would crash when attempting to decrypt an invalid UWP code-signing certificate

> ng new ASPNETCore2JwtAuthentication.AngularClient --routing

> npm install bootstrap --save

  "apps": [
    {
      "styles": [
    "../node_modules/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css",
        "styles.css"
      ],

>ng g c welcome
>ng g c PageNotFound

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent,
    WelcomeComponent,
    PageNotFoundComponent
  ],

import { PageNotFoundComponent } from './page-not-found/page-not-found.component';
import { WelcomeComponent } from './welcome/welcome.component';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { Routes, RouterModule } from '@angular/router';
const routes: Routes = [
  { path: 'welcome', component: WelcomeComponent },
  { path: '', redirectTo: 'welcome', pathMatch: 'full' },
  { path: '**', component: PageNotFoundComponent }
];
@NgModule({
  imports: [RouterModule.forRoot(routes)],
  exports: [RouterModule]
})
export class AppRoutingModule { }

>ng g m Authentication -m app.module --routing

  create src/app/authentication/authentication-routing.module.ts (257 bytes)
  create src/app/authentication/authentication.module.ts (311 bytes)
  update src/app/app.module.ts (696 bytes)

import { EmployeeRoutingModule } from './employee/employee-routing.module';
@NgModule({
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    AppRoutingModule,
    AuthenticationModule
  ]

import { EmployeeModule } from './employee/employee.module';
@NgModule({
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    AuthenticationModule,
    AppRoutingModule 
  ]

>ng g c Authentication/Login

  create src/app/Authentication/login/login.component.html (24 bytes)
  create src/app/Authentication/login/login.component.ts (265 bytes)
  create src/app/Authentication/login/login.component.css (0 bytes)
  update src/app/Authentication/authentication.module.ts (383 bytes)

import { LoginComponent } from "./login/login.component";

@NgModule({
  declarations: [LoginComponent]
})

import { LoginComponent } from "./login/login.component";

const routes: Routes = [
  { path: "login", component: LoginComponent }
];

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

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

import { BrowserStorageService } from "./browser-storage.service";

@NgModule({
  imports: [CommonModule, RouterModule],
  exports: [
    // components that are used in app.component.ts will be listed here.
  ],
  declarations: [
    // components that are used in app.component.ts will be listed here.
  ],
  providers: [
    // global singleton services of the whole app will be listed here.
    BrowserStorageService
  ]
})
export class CoreModule {
  constructor( @Optional() @SkipSelf() core: CoreModule) {
    if (core) {
      throw new Error("CoreModule should be imported ONLY in AppModule.");
    }
  }
}

import { NgModule, ModuleWithProviders } from "@angular/core";
import { CommonModule } from "@angular/common";

@NgModule({
  imports: [
    CommonModule
  ],
  entryComponents: [
    // All components about to be loaded "dynamically" need to be declared in the entryComponents section.
  ],
  declarations: [
    // common and shared components/directives/pipes between more than one module and components will be listed here.
  ],
  exports: [
    // common and shared components/directives/pipes between more than one module and components will be listed here.
    CommonModule
  ]
  /* No providers here! Since they’ll be already provided in AppModule. */
})
export class SharedModule {
  static forRoot(): ModuleWithProviders {
    // Forcing the whole app to use the returned providers from the AppModule only.
    return {
      ngModule: SharedModule,
      providers: [ /* All of your services here. It will hold the services needed by `itself`. */]
    };
  }
}

import { FormsModule } from "@angular/forms";
import { HttpClientModule } from "@angular/common/http";

import { CoreModule } from "./core/core.module";
import { SharedModule } from "./shared/shared.module";

@NgModule({
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    FormsModule,
    HttpClientModule,
    CoreModule,
    SharedModule.forRoot(),
    AuthenticationModule,
    AppRoutingModule
  ]
})
export class AppModule { }

> ng g c Header

  create src/app/header/header.component.html (25 bytes)
  create src/app/header/header.component.ts (269 bytes)
  create src/app/header/header.component.css (0 bytes)
  update src/app/app.module.ts (1069 bytes)

<nav>
  <div>
    <div>
      <a [routerLink]="['/']">{{title}}</a>
    </div>
    <ul>
      <li role="menuitem" routerLinkActive="active" [routerLinkActiveOptions]="{ exact: true }">
        <a [routerLink]="['/welcome']">Home</a>
      </li>
      <li role="menuitem" routerLinkActive="active">
        <a queryParamsHandling="merge" [routerLink]="['/login']">Login</a>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>
</nav>

export class HeaderComponent implements OnInit {
    title = "Angular.Jwt.Core";

<app-header></app-header>
<div>
  <router-outlet></router-outlet>
</div>

import { HeaderComponent } from "./component/header/header.component";

@NgModule({
  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
  ]
})
export class CoreModule {

var $table = $('#browsers-grid');
$table.dataTable({
      "bServerSide": true,
      "sAjaxSource": "/Home/GetBrowsers"
 });

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/// <summary>
/// Class that encapsulates most common parameters sent by DataTables plugin
/// </summary>
public class jQueryDataTableParamModel
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Request sequence number sent by DataTable,
    /// same value must be returned in response
    /// </summary>
    public string sEcho { get; set; }
    /// <summary>
    /// Text used for filtering
    /// </summary>
    public string sSearch { get; set; }
    /// <summary>
    /// Number of records that should be shown in table
    /// </summary>
    public int iDisplayLength { get; set; }
    /// <summary>
    /// First record that should be shown(used for paging)
    /// </summary>
    public int iDisplayStart { get; set; }
    /// <summary>
    /// Number of columns in table
    /// </summary>
    public int iColumns { get; set; }
    /// <summary>
    /// Number of columns that are used in sorting
    /// /// </summary>
    public int iSortingCols { get; set; }
    /// <summary>
    /// Comma separated list of column names
    /// </summary>
    public string sColumns { get; set; }
}

public JsonResult GetBrowsers(jQueryDataTableParamModel param)
{
        IQueryable<Browser> allBrowsers = new Browsers().CreateInMemoryDataSource().AsQueryable();

        IEnumerable<Browser> filteredBrowsers;

        // Apply Filtering
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(param.sSearch))
        {
                filteredBrowsers = new Browsers().CreateInMemoryDataSource()
                    .Where(x => x.Engine.Contains(param.sSearch)
                                       || x.Grade.Contains(param.sSearch)
                                       || x.Name.Contains(param.sSearch)
                                       || x.Platform.Contains(param.sSearch)
                    ).ToList();
                float f;
                if (float.TryParse(param.sSearch, out f))
                {
                    filteredBrowsers = filteredBrowsers.Where(x => x.Version.Equals(f));
                }
        }
        else
        {
                filteredBrowsers = allBrowsers;
        }

        // Apply Sorting
        var sortColumnIndex = Convert.ToInt32(Request["iSortCol_0"]);
        Func<Browser, string> orderingFunction = (x => sortColumnIndex == 0 ? x.Engine :
                                                            sortColumnIndex == 1 ? x.Name :
                                                            sortColumnIndex == 2 ? x.Platform :
                                                            sortColumnIndex == 3 ? x.Version.ToString() :
                                                            sortColumnIndex == 4 ? x.Grade :
                                                                x.Name);

        var sortDirection = Request["sSortDir_0"]; // asc or desc
        filteredBrowsers = sortDirection == "asc" ? filteredBrowsers.OrderBy(orderingFunction) : filteredBrowsers.OrderByDescending(orderingFunction);

        // Apply Paging
        var enumerable = filteredBrowsers.ToArray();
        IEnumerable<Browser> displayedBrowsers = enumerable.Skip(param.iDisplayStart).
                Take(param.iDisplayLength).ToList();

        return Json(new
        {
                sEcho = param.sEcho,
                iTotalRecords = allBrowsers.Count(),
                iTotalDisplayRecords = enumerable.Count(),
                aaData = displayedBrowsers
        }, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}

$(function () {
        var $table = $('#browsers-grid');
        $table.dataTable({
                "bProcessing": true,
                "bStateSave": true,
                "bServerSide": true,
                "bFilter": true,
                "sDom": 'T<"clear">lftipr',
                "aLengthMenu": [[5, 10, 25, 50, -1], [5, 10, 25, 50, "All"]],
                "bAutoWidth": false,
                "sAjaxSource": "/Home/GetBrowsers",
                "fnServerData": function (sSource, aoData, fnCallback) {
                    $.ajax({
                        "dataType": 'json',
                        "type": "POST",
                        "url": sSource,
                        "data": aoData,
                        "success": fnCallback
                    });
                },
                "aoColumns": [
                    { "mDataProp": "Engine" },
                    { "mDataProp": "Name" },
                    { "mDataProp": "Platform" },
                    { "mDataProp": "Version" },
                    { "mDataProp": "Grade" }
                ],
                "oLanguage": {
                        "sUrl": "/Content/dataTables.persian.txt"
                }
        });
});

• Performance improvements in the core debugger
• Support for  .NET 6 , which can be used to build web, client and mobile apps by both Windows and Mac developers, as well as improved support for developing Azure apps
• An update UI meant to reduce complexity and which will add integration with Accessibility Insights. Microsoft plans to update the icons and add support for  Cascadia Code , a new fixed-width font for better readability
• Support for C++ 20 tooling. language standardization and Intellisense
• Integration of text chat into the  Live Share  collaboration feature
• Additional support for Git and GitHub
• Improved code search  

1. Support for UPDATE FROM following the PostgreSQL syntax.

2. Increase the maximum size of database files to 281 TB.

,... 

There is a lot of promise in bringing Blazor goodness to WPF desktop apps. This would be a wonderful way to modernize WPF apps and share code better between web/desktop. 

context.Chapters.Add(new Chapter
{
    Title = "آزمایش متن فارسی",
    Text = "برای نمونه تهیه شده‌است",
    User = user1.Entity
});

 "C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeBlocks\MinGW\bin\gcc.exe" -g -shared -fPIC -Wall D:\path\to\sqlite-amalgamation-3310100\spellfix.c -o spellfix1.dll

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace EFCoreSQLiteFTS.DataLayer
{
    public static class LoadSqliteExtensions
    {
        public static void AddToSystemPath(string extensionsDirectory)
        {
            if (!RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.Windows))
            {
                throw new NotSupportedException("Modifying the path at runtime only works on Windows. On Linux and Mac, set LD_LIBRARY_PATH or DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH before running the app.");
            }

            var path = new HashSet<string>(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("PATH").Split(Path.PathSeparator));
            if (path.Add(extensionsDirectory))
            {
                Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("PATH", string.Join(Path.PathSeparator, path));
            }
        }
    }
}

LoadSqliteExtensions.AddToSystemPath("path to .dll file");
services.AddDbContext<ApplicationDbContext>((serviceProvider, optionsBuilder) =>
    {
        var connection = new SqliteConnection(connectionString);
        connection.Open();

        connection.LoadExtension("spellfix1");
        // Passing in an already open connection will keep the connection open between requests.
        optionsBuilder.UseSqlite(connection);
    });

        private static void createFtsTables(ApplicationDbContext context)
        {
            // For SQLite FTS
            // Note: This can be added to the `protected override void Up(MigrationBuilder migrationBuilder)` method too.
            context.Database.ExecuteSqlRaw(@"CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ""Chapters_FTS""
                                    USING fts5(""Text"", ""Title"", content=""Chapters"", content_rowid=""Id"");");

            // 'SQLite Error 1: 'no such module: spellfix1'.' --> must be loaded ...
            // EditCost for unicode support
            context.Database.ExecuteSqlRaw("CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE IF NOT EXISTS Chapters_FTS_Vocab USING fts5vocab('Chapters_FTS', 'row');");
            context.Database.ExecuteSqlRaw("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS Chapters_FTS_SpellFix_EditCost(iLang INT, cFrom TEXT, cTo TEXT, iCost INT);");
            context.Database.ExecuteSqlRaw("CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE IF NOT EXISTS Chapters_FTS_SpellFix USING spellfix1(edit_cost_table=Chapters_FTS_SpellFix_EditCost);");
        }

database.ExecuteSqlRaw(@"INSERT INTO Chapters_FTS_SpellFix(word, rank)
    SELECT term, cnt FROM Chapters_FTS_Vocab
    WHERE term not in (SELECT word from Chapters_FTS_SpellFix_vocab)");

database.ExecuteSqlRaw("INSERT INTO Chapters_FTS_SpellFix(command) VALUES(\"reset\");");

namespace EFCoreSQLiteFTS.Entities
{
    public class SpellCheck
    {
        public string Word { get; set; }
        public decimal Rank { get; set; }
        public decimal Distance { get; set; }
        public decimal Score { get; set; }
        public decimal Matchlen { get; set; }
    }
}

namespace EFCoreSQLiteFTS.DataLayer
{
    public class ApplicationDbContext : DbContext
    {
        //...

        protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder builder)
        {
            base.OnModelCreating(builder);

            builder.Entity<SpellCheck>().HasNoKey().ToView(null);
        }

        //...
    }
}

foreach (var item in context.Set<SpellCheck>().FromSqlRaw(
          @"SELECT word, rank, distance, score, matchlen FROM Chapters_FTS_SpellFix
            WHERE word MATCH {0} and top=6", "فارشی"))
{
    Console.WriteLine($"Word: {item.Word}");
    Console.WriteLine($"Distance: {item.Distance}");
}

 var date = new DateOnly(2020, 04, 20);

 var currentDate = DateOnly.FromDateTime(DateTime.Now);

if (DateOnly.TryParse("28/09/1984", new CultureInfo("en-US"), DateTimeStyles.None, out var result))
{
   Console.WriteLine(result);
}

DateOnly d1 = DateOnly.ParseExact("31 Dec 1980", "dd MMM yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);  // Custom format
Console.WriteLine(d1.ToString("o", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)); // "1980-12-31"  (ISO 8601 format)

var persianCalendar = new PersianCalendar();
DateOnly d2 = new DateOnly(1400, 9, 6, persianCalendar);
Console.WriteLine(d2.ToString("d MMMM yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture));

var newDate = date.AddDays(1).AddMonths(1).AddYears(1)

public TimeOnly(int hour, int minute)
public TimeOnly(int hour, int minute, int second)
public TimeOnly(int hour, int minute, int second, int millisecond)

var startTime = new TimeOnly(10, 30);

var endTime = new TimeOnly(13, 00, 00);

var diff = endTime - startTime;

Console.WriteLine($"Hours: {diff.TotalHours}");

TimeSpan ts = endTime.ToTimeSpan();

var currentTime = TimeOnly.FromDateTime(DateTime.Now);

DateTime dt = date.ToDateTime(new TimeOnly(0, 0));
Console.WriteLine(dt);

 var isBetween = currentTime.IsBetween(startTime, endTime);
Console.WriteLine($"Current time {(isBetween ? "is" : "is not")} between start and end");

var startTime = new TimeOnly(08, 00);
var endTime = new TimeOnly(09, 00);
 
Console.WriteLine($"{startTime < endTime}");

TimeOnly time = TimeOnly.ParseExact("5:00 pm", "h:mm tt", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);  // Custom format
Console.WriteLine(time.ToString("T", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)); // "17:00:00"  (long time format)

public record DataTypeTest(DateOnly Date, TimeOnly Time);

var date = DateOnly.FromDateTime(DateTime.Now);
var time = TimeOnly.FromDateTime(DateTime.Now);
var test = new DataTypeTest(date, time);
var json = JsonSerializer.Serialize(test);

Serialization and deserialization of 'System.DateOnly' instances are not supported.

    public class DateOnlyConverter : JsonConverter<DateOnly>
    {
        private readonly string _serializationFormat;

        public DateOnlyConverter() : this(null)
        { }

        public DateOnlyConverter(string? serializationFormat)
        {
            _serializationFormat = serializationFormat ?? "yyyy-MM-dd";
        }

        public override DateOnly Read(ref Utf8JsonReader reader, Type typeToConvert, JsonSerializerOptions options)
        {
            var value = reader.GetString();
            return DateOnly.ParseExact(value!, _serializationFormat, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
        }

        public override void Write(Utf8JsonWriter writer, DateOnly value, JsonSerializerOptions options)
            => writer.WriteStringValue(value.ToString(_serializationFormat));
    }

    public class TimeOnlyConverter : JsonConverter<TimeOnly>
    {
        private readonly string _serializationFormat;

        public TimeOnlyConverter() : this(null)
        {
        }

        public TimeOnlyConverter(string? serializationFormat)
        {
            _serializationFormat = serializationFormat ?? "HH:mm:ss.fff";
        }

        public override TimeOnly Read(ref Utf8JsonReader reader, Type typeToConvert, JsonSerializerOptions options)
        {
            var value = reader.GetString();
            return TimeOnly.ParseExact(value!, _serializationFormat, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
        }

        public override void Write(Utf8JsonWriter writer, TimeOnly value, JsonSerializerOptions options)
            => writer.WriteStringValue(value.ToString(_serializationFormat));
    }

var jsonOptions = new JsonSerializerOptions(JsonSerializerDefaults.Web);
jsonOptions.Converters.Add(new DateOnlyConverter());
jsonOptions.Converters.Add(new TimeOnlyConverter());
var json = JsonSerializer.Serialize(test, jsonOptions);