Today, we will go through what's new and hot in .NET 7. I know you're a busy developer, and keeping up with what is happening is hard. That's why I am telling you everything you need to know.

2020 is a very special year for many reasons. The most important one: for the first time in 5 years the overall winner of the Rising Stars is not called Vue.js but Deno... what a surprise! 

WHAT IS BLAZOR?

Blazor is a single-page app framework for building interactive client-side Web apps with .NET. Blazor uses open web standards without plugins or code transpilation. Blazor works in all modern web browsers, including mobile browsers. 

I am so excited about using Plotly packages in Power BI.

So What is Plotly: is an R package for creating interactive web-based graphs via the open source JavaScript graphing library :https://plot.ly/r/getting-started/ 

A/B testing is a great tool for having your users test your site. It is used by some of the largest sites on the internet to optimize their pages to get people to do exactly what they want. 

var integerArray = new int[3];
var lastItem = integerArray[integerArray.Length - 1];

var integerList = integerArray.ToList();
integerList.Last();

var secondToLast = integerArray[integerArray.Length - 2];

var lastItem = integerArray[^1];

var words = new string[]
{
                // index from start    index from end
    "The",      // 0                   ^9
    "quick",    // 1                   ^8
    "brown",    // 2                   ^7
    "fox",      // 3                   ^6
    "jumped",   // 4                   ^5
    "over",     // 5                   ^4
    "the",      // 6                   ^3
    "lazy",     // 7                   ^2
    "dog"       // 8                   ^1
};              // 9 (or words.Length) ^0

Console.WriteLine($"The last word is {words[words.Length - 1]}");

var index = new Index(value: 1, fromEnd: true);
Index indexStruct = ^1;
var indexShortHand = ^1;

int[] a = { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 };
Console.WriteLine(a[a.Length – 2]); // will write 8 on console.
Console.WriteLine(a[^2]); // will write 8 on console.

Index i5 = 5;
Console.WriteLine(a[i5]);        //will write 5 on console.

Index i2fromEnd = ^2;
Console.WriteLine(a[i2fromEnd]); // will write 8 on console.

var numbers = Enumerable.Range(1, 10).ToArray();

var (start, end) = (1, 7); 
var length = end - start; 

// Using LINQ 
var subset1 = numbers.Skip(start).Take(length);
 
// Or using Array.Copy 
var subset2 = new int[length];
Array.Copy(numbers, start, subset2, 0, length);

var myArray = new string[] { "Item1", "Item2", "Item3", "Item4", "Item5" };

 var fromIndexToX = myArray[1..3]; // = [Item2, Item3]

var fromIndexToXFromTheEnd = myArray[1..^1]; // = [ "Item2", "Item3", "Item4" ]

var fromAnIndexToTheEnd = myArray[1..]; // = [ "Item2", "Item3", "Item4", "Item5" ]

 var fromTheStartToAnIndex = myArray[..3]; // = [ "Item1", "Item2", "Item3" ]

 var entireRange = myArray[..]; // = [ "Item1", "Item2", "Item3", "Item4", "Item5" ]

var myArray = new string[] { "Item1", "Item2", "Item3", "Item4", "Item5" };
for (int i = 1; i <= 3; i++)
{
  Console.WriteLine(myArray[i]);
}

foreach (var item in myArray[1..4]) // = [ "Item2", "Item3", "Item4" ]
{
  Console.WriteLine(item);
}

using System;
using System.Linq;

namespace ConsoleApp
{
    class Program
    {
        private static readonly int[] _numbers = Enumerable.Range(1, 10).ToArray();

        static void Main()
        {
            var skip2CharactersAndTake2Characters = _numbers[2..4]; // صرفنظر کردن از دو عنصر اول و سپس انتخاب دو عنصر
            var skipFirstAndLastCharacter = _numbers[1..^1]; // صرفنظر کردن از دو عنصر اول و آخر
            var last3Characters = _numbers[^3..]; // انتخاب بازه‌ای شامل سه عنصر آخر
            var first4Characters = _numbers[0..4]; // دریافت بازه‌ای از 4 عنصر اول
            var rangeStartFrom2 = _numbers[2..]; // دریافت بازه‌ای شروع شده از المان دوم تا آخر
            var skipLast3Characters = _numbers[..^3]; // صرفنظر کردن از سه المان آخر
            var rangeAll = _numbers[..]; // انتخاب کل بازه
        }
    }
}

var range = new Range(1, 4);
Range rangeStruct = 1..4;
var rangeShortHand = 1..4;

using System;
using System.Linq;

namespace ConsoleApp
{
    class Program
    {
        private static readonly int[] _numbers = Enumerable.Range(1, 10).ToArray();
        static void Print(Range range) => Console.WriteLine($"{range} => {string.Join(", ", _numbers[range])}");

        static void Main()
        {
            Print(1..3); // 1..3 => 2, 3
            Print(..3);      // 0..3 => 1, 2, 3
            Print(3..);      // 3..^0 => 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
            Print(1..^1);    // 1..^1 => 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
            Print(^2..^1);   // ^2..^1 => 9
        }
    }
}

Console.WriteLine("123456789"[1..4]); // Would output 234

var helloWorldStr = "Hello, World!";

var hello = helloWorldStr[..5];
Console.WriteLine(hello); // Output: Hello

var world = helloWorldStr[7..];
Console.WriteLine(world); // Output: World!

var world2 = helloWorldStr[^6..]; // Take the last 6 characters
Console.WriteLine(world); // Output: World!

var arr = (new[] { 1, 4, 8, 11, 19, 31 }).AsSpan();
var range = arr[2..5];

ref int elt1 = ref range[1];
elt1 = -1;

int copiedElement = range[2];
copiedElement = -2;

Console.WriteLine($"range[1]: {range[1]}, range[2]: {range[2]}"); // output: range[1]: -1, range[2]: 19
Console.WriteLine($"arr[3]: {arr[3]}, arr[4]: {arr[4]}"); // output: arr[3]: -1, arr[4]: 19

[HttpGet]
public async Task<IActionResult> Challenge(string provider, string returnUrl)

[HttpGet]
public async Task<IActionResult> Callback()

namespace DNT.IDP
{
    public class Startup
    {
        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            services.Configure<IISOptions>(iis =>
            {
                iis.AuthenticationDisplayName = "Windows Account";
                iis.AutomaticAuthentication = false;
            });

        public ExternalController(
            IIdentityServerInteractionService interaction,
            IClientStore clientStore,
            IEventService events,
            TestUserStore users = null)
        {
            _users = users ?? new TestUserStore(TestUsers.Users);

            _interaction = interaction;
            _clientStore = clientStore;
            _events = events;
        }

        private readonly IUsersService _usersService;
        public ExternalController(
    // ...
            IUsersService usersService)
        {
    // ...
            _usersService = usersService;
        }

 var user = _users.FindByExternalProvider(provider, providerUserId);

 var user = await _usersService.GetUserByProviderAsync(provider, providerUserId);

 private async Task<(User user, string provider, string providerUserId, IEnumerable<Claim> claims)> FindUserFromExternalProvider(AuthenticateResult result)

private TestUser AutoProvisionUser(string provider, string providerUserId, IEnumerable<Claim> claims)
{
   var user = _users.AutoProvisionUser(provider, providerUserId, claims.ToList());
   return user;
}

[HttpGet]
public IActionResult RegisterUser(string returnUrl)

namespace DNT.IDP.Controllers.UserRegistration
{
    public class RegistrationInputModel
    {
        public string ReturnUrl { get; set; }
        public string Provider { get; set; }
        public string ProviderUserId { get; set; }

        public bool IsProvisioningFromExternal => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(Provider);
    }
}

namespace DNT.IDP.Controllers.Account
{
    [SecurityHeaders]
    [AllowAnonymous]
    public class ExternalController : Controller
    {
        public async Task<IActionResult> Callback()
        {
            var result = await HttpContext.AuthenticateAsync(IdentityServer4.IdentityServerConstants.ExternalCookieAuthenticationScheme);
            var returnUrl = result.Properties.Items["returnUrl"] ?? "~/";

            var (user, provider, providerUserId, claims) = await FindUserFromExternalProvider(result);
            if (user == null)
            {
                // user = AutoProvisionUser(provider, providerUserId, claims);
                
                var returnUrlAfterRegistration = Url.Action("Callback", new { returnUrl = returnUrl });
                var continueWithUrl = Url.Action("RegisterUser", "UserRegistration" ,
                    new { returnUrl = returnUrlAfterRegistration, provider = provider, providerUserId = providerUserId });
                return Redirect(continueWithUrl);
            }

namespace DNT.IDP.Controllers.UserRegistration
{
    public class UserRegistrationController : Controller
    {
        [HttpGet]
        public IActionResult RegisterUser(RegistrationInputModel registrationInputModel)
        {
            var vm = new RegisterUserViewModel
            {
                ReturnUrl = registrationInputModel.ReturnUrl,
                Provider = registrationInputModel.Provider,
                ProviderUserId = registrationInputModel.ProviderUserId
            };

            return View(vm);
        }

namespace DNT.IDP.Controllers.UserRegistration
{
    public class RegisterUserViewModel : RegistrationInputModel
    {

<inputtype="hidden"asp-for="ReturnUrl"/>
<inputtype="hidden"asp-for="Provider"/>
<inputtype="hidden"asp-for="ProviderUserId"/>

@if (!Model.IsProvisioningFromExternal)
{
    <div>
        <label asp-for="Password"></label>
        <input type="password" placeholder="Password"
               asp-for="Password" autocomplete="off">
    </div>
}

namespace DNT.IDP.Controllers.UserRegistration
{
    public class UserRegistrationController : Controller
    {
        [HttpPost]
        [ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
        public async Task<IActionResult> RegisterUser(RegisterUserViewModel model)
        {
    // ...
            
            if (model.IsProvisioningFromExternal)
            {
                userToCreate.UserLogins.Add(new UserLogin
                {
                    LoginProvider = model.Provider,
                    ProviderKey = model.ProviderUserId
                });
            }

            // add it through the repository
            await _usersService.AddUserAsync(userToCreate);

// ...
        }
    }

if (!model.IsProvisioningFromExternal)
{
    // log the user in
    // issue authentication cookie with subject ID and username
    var props = new AuthenticationProperties
    {
        IsPersistent = false,
        ExpiresUtc = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.Add(AccountOptions.RememberMeLoginDuration)
    };
    await HttpContext.SignInAsync(userToCreate.SubjectId, userToCreate.Username, props);
}

This talk covers:

• What has changed and what remains the same compared to EF6
• EF Migrations: from powershell to the new dnx commands
• Configuration and Initialisation using Dependency Injection.
• DbContext lifecycle management
• How to hack / override EF behaviour.
• Is it ready for Production use? My suggestions for the team  

Perhaps you’ve seen the term REST being thrown around lately and have been a little curious what it’s all about. If that’s the case, or you know a little about it but never used it, this article is for you. Today I’m going to give a small overview of what REST services are, and why it’s awesome.