Windows 10 May 2021 Update (version 21H1) is now available to seekers who want to install it right now. Initially, it will be available to select devices running Windows 10 version 2004 or later. If you have a compatible device, and you can't wait for the rollout to complete, go to the Windows Update settings page and check for the new update. 

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  

As Microsoft launches .NET 7, CODE Focus offers high quality insights right from the teams responsible for designing and improving the product. Dig into articles about C# 11, .NET MAUI, Blazor, EF Core 7, CoreWCF and better tools to upgrade your existing .NET and ASP.NET applications to the latest release. Plus performance enhancements everywhere! This is an amazing release. 

The desktop is here to stay. Sam Basu reviews how you can take advantage of the latest in .NET technologies and still build the apps your customers demand. 

Sam covers Windows Forms, XAML (UWP, WinUI), Progressive Web Apps, Electron, Blazor Mobile Bindings, .NET MAUI and building for Mac OS and Linux.  

This document covers the best practices and pitfalls for building UI to display URLs in browsers and other apps. It covers the main categories of problems and challenges that we’ve seen in building Chrome. The guidance is intended to be generally applicable, but includes some Chrome-specific notes throughout. 

Cloud Computing is currently the hot topic in the developer world these days, and it seems all anyone wants to talk about is the cloud. If you're like me you signed up for something like Windows Azure just to see what the hype was all about. There are a lot of good reasons to move an app to the cloud, but it's still not for everyone. There are some things you need to think about before taking this gamble with your app.  

As previously announced, starting January 12, 2016 Microsoft will no longer provide security updates, technical support or hotfixes for .NET 4, 4.5, and 4.5.1 frameworks. All other framework versions, including 3.5, 4.5.2, 4.6 and 4.6.1, will be supported  

.NET 4.8 is the end of the road for .NET Framework.
.NET 5 = .NET Core vNext

You might think, as a developer, that nothing but the best is good enough as a development database. You might be mistaken. There is a lot to be said for LocalDB, but Ed Elliott argues that every edition has its pros and cons, and you need to consider Cloud-based resources, VMs and Containerised databases too. There is a whole range of alternatives and how you choose depends on the type of database you are developing, but for Ed, LocalDB gets the five-star accolade