VSCode for the C# Developer - Tim Corey - NDC London 2023

VSCode is a nimble editor that can do just about anything. In this session, we will set up and configure VSCode for use in C# development. Then we will use it to build, debug, and deploy a small .NET Core web application to Azure.
Along the way, we will go over a list of the top C#-focused plugins for VSCode. Whether you are just getting started with VSCode or you are used to VSCode but want to start building C# projects, this session will get you up to speed fast. 

Here’s a summary of what’s new in this preview release:

• ASP.NET Core support for native AOT
• Server-side rendering with Blazor
• Render Razor components outside of ASP.NET Core
• Sections support in Blazor
• Monitor Blazor Server circuit activity
• SIMD enabled by default for Blazor WebAssembly apps
• Request timeouts
• Short circuit routes 

This past week of the bootcamp was devoted to the Microsoft ASP.NET Web API. In other words, students learned how to build the server-side half of their full stack Web apps. By this point in the camp, students understand how all of the various pieces of a modern web app fit together. 

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started
2. Scenes and Scene Management
3. User Interface
4. 2-D Graphics and Sprites
5. Input
6. Animation
7. Audio
8. Implementing Gameplay 

• 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

Aurelia is one of the best frameworks that we have ever seen in terms of software design, hence, we decided to write a bunch of tools for its developers to pave the way for further usage.

aurelia-toolbelt is that, in which we tried to gather the best libraries in Javascript world together in aurelia fashion. Writing custom-elements, value-converters, and so on. We tried not to invent the wheel, so most of the work is a wrapper, or bridge( am not sure whether the way that we coded can be called bridge or not), around other libraries.

• Its is utterly important for us to provide a link as a reference to the libraries used, or inspired from, so that other developers can visit their product and decide on their own to use which, besides it's one way that we can respect the time and effort of those programmers.

• All libraries used in aurelia-toolbelt are open-source and free of charge; most of which are  MIT , however we will provide definition whenever it differs. 

GitHub : aurelia-toolbelt

NPM : aurelia-toolbelt

Twitter : aureliatoolbelt

In this post we are going to talk about two CSS properties that not a lot of web developers know about. They are called object-fit and object-position and both have to do with styling images and video. 

In this section we'll create a Blazor application to demonstrate the different lifetimes of the various dependency injection scopes. 

As anyone in the .NET community who hasn't been living under a rock will know, there's a lot of exciting things happening with .NET at the moment with the announcement of the open source, cross platform, .NET Core. However, partly due to the very open nature of its evolution, there's been a whole host of names associated with its development - vNext, ASP.NET 5, ASP.NET Core, .NET generations etc.

In this post I'm going to try and clarify some of the naming and terminology surrounding the evolution of the .NET framework. I'll discuss some of the challenges the latest iteration is attempting to deal with and how the latest developments aim to address these.

This is really for those that have seen some of the big announcements but aren't sure about the intricacies of this new framework and how it relates to the existing ecosystem, which was my situation before I really started digging into it all properly!

Hopefully by the end of this article you'll have a clearer grasp of the latest in .NET!