With the release of Free Style 1.0, I figure it's about time to write about Free Style - how it works, why you'd want to use it and little introduction to CSS-in-JS. This has been a long time coming, with my first commit to Free Style over a year ago, and the first commit to Free Style in its current form 10 months ago. This is not a blog post designed to sway decisions - as always, you should use your own fair judgement. 

The ASP.NET Core tag helpers improve on the HTML templated helpers in ASP.NET MVC 5. ASP.NET Core comes with some useful stock tag helpers for common tasks such as creating custom elements or extending existing HTML elements, but their use can be extended to making a framework such as Bootstrap easier to work with. Dino shows how helpers are used, and demonstrates a Bootstrap Modal Tag Helper 

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These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.8.8:

• /DEBUG:FASTLINK no debug info for STL types included via PCH.
• Bad codegen seen in 15.8 RTW compiler.
• Heap corruption in stack unwinding when inlining function.
• Linker consumes 6 GB of memory for specific test case. 

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 

Here are some additional changes in SQL Server 2016.