easystar.js is an asynchronous A* pathfinding API written in Javascript for use in your HTML5 games and interactive projects. The goal of this project is to make it easy and fast to implement performance conscious pathfinding.  Demo

• Calculates asynchronously for better overall performance
• Simple API
• Small. ~5kb
• Use it with any existing Javascript Framework

• Fixed: Android SDK not found after upgrade to 16.2
• Fixed: VS won't start after update with message tht setup is complete.
• Fixed an issue resulting in an installer verification or manifest verification fail when user is updating through the setup UI.
• Fixed an issue that caused Visual Studio to crash or stop responding during shutdown.
• Fixed a timing-related issue while saving changed Xamarin.Android project properties or building the project that resulted in the product to stop responding.
• Fixed an issue with Visual Studio crashing when C# users typed above a namespace.
• Fixed an issue preventing SSIS packages from successfully running in some circumstances after reloading a solution. 

A simple yet organized project template for building ASP.NET Core APIs in .NET Core 3.1

Tools and Frameworks Used

• .NET Core 3.1
• ASP.NET Core - For building RESTful APIs
• Dapper - For data access.
• AutoMapper - For mapping entity models to DTOs.
• AutoWrapper - For handling request Exceptions and consistent HTTP response format.
• AutoWrapper.Server - For unwrapping the Result attribute from AutoWrapper's ApiResponse output.
• Swashbuckle.AspNetCore - For securing API documentation.
• FluentValidation.AspNetCore - For Model validations
• Serilog.AspNetCore - For logging capabilities
• IdentityServer4.AccessTokenValidation - For JWT Authentication handling
• Microsoft.Extensions.Http.Polly - For handling HttpClient Resilience and Transient fault-handling
• AspNetCoreRateLimit - For controlling the rate of requests that clients can make to an external API based on IP address or client ID.
• AspNetCore.Diagnostics.HealthChecks - For performing health checks
• Microsoft.AspNetCore.Diagnostics.HealthChecks - For getting the results of Health Checks in the application
• AspNetCore.HealthChecks.UI - For Health Status visualization
• xUnit and Moq - For unit testing.  

Entity Framework (EF) Core is the rearchitected and rewritten version of the Entity Framework object relational mapping engine for .NET Core applications. It is very light-weight, extensible, and cross platform.

However, high transaction .NET Core applications using EF Core face performance and scalability bottlenecks in the database-tier under peak loads. This is because, although you can linearly scale the application tier by adding more application servers, you cannot add more database servers to scale it.

But, if you use a distributed cache like NCache in your .NET Core applications, you can quickly remove these performance and scalability bottlenecks and handle extreme transaction loads. 

"The new standardization process is an important step towards a future where Dart runs natively in web browsers," Google product manager Anders Sandholm wrote in a blog post on Thursday. 

The ASP.NET team is proud to announce general availability of ASP.NET Core 2.0.  This release features compatibility with .NET Core 2.0, tooling support in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3, and the new Razor Pages user-interface design paradigm.  For a full list of updates, you can read the release notes.  The latest SDK and tools can be downloaded from https://dot.net/core. Read the .NET Core 2.0 release announcement for more information and watch the launch video on Channel 9.

With .NET 6 previews starting right around the corner, it is time to start getting excited for the new .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) that was announced at BUILD 2020. This year of .NET has a lot of amazing things for client application developers. Let’s review the highlights and set your expectations for the year ahead. 

 Today the Docker team announced the availability of a technical preview of the Docker Engine for Windows Server 2016. This is huge for us and all software teams that work primarily on the Windows platform

• Delete option is missing from solution explorer context menu in Xamarin Forms Android projects.
• Xamarin.Android: Can't select target framework 28 in Android Manifest settings.
• Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.PageInspector.Loader, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
• "There was an error running the selected code generator" when trying to create a new view.
• Android Berechtigungsliste ist leer-Android permission list is empty.
• Missing icons for .axml files in Visual Studio 2019.
• axml icons are not displayed.
• Visual Studio extensions may fail to install attempting to overwrite core NuGet files.
• C# switch statement on a constant expression may produce bad compiler errors.