Missing Features in Entity Framework Core
Here’s a brief summary of some of the features that were present in previous versions of Entity Framework (6.x) and were excluded (or are not yet implemented) in Entity Framework Core 2.0: 

This release contains the following improvements and enhancements:

• This release now installs Java™ Development Kit 8, Update 181 (JDK version 8u181). 

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.7.6:

• Visual C++ Redistributable 2017 does not report the install state in a specific registry location.
• In 15.7 users may see extensions load without all of their assets and cause VS to crash. This has been addressed for 15.7.6.
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7.5 crashes when opening a solution. 

Normally when Microsoft decides an end-of-life date for a product, they really just mean “you shouldn’t be using this anymore, but we understand if you do”. This won’t be the case for Silverlight, which will no longer be downloadable after October 12, 2021. 

Redis, the popular in-memory data store, is switching away from the open source three-clause BSD license. Instead, in a move that is clearly aimed to prevent the large cloud providers from offering free alternatives to Redis’ own hosted services, Redis will now be dual-licensed under the Redis Source Available License (RSALv2) and Server Side Public License (SSPLv1). Under this new license, cloud service providers hosting Redis will need to enter into a commercial agreement with Redis. The first company to do so is Microsoft.

Modern software development practices value quick and continuous updates, following processes that minimize the impact of software failures. As important as identifying bugs early, finding out if changes are improving business value are equally important. These practices can only work when a monitoring solution is in place. This article explores options for adding observability to .NET Core apps. They have been collected based on interactions with customers using .NET Core in different environments. We will be looking into OpenTelemetry and Application Insights SDKs to add observability to a sample distributed application. 

Continuing with our release cadence, we’re excited to announce the release of SQL Server 2022 Release Candidate 1. Since the first public preview in May 2022, anyone can download SQL Server 2022 RC1 to try the new features in this release. 

JS Is Weird
JavaScript is a great programming language, but thanks to the fact that its initial release was built in only ten days back in 1995, coupled with the fact that JS is backward-compatible, it's also a bit weird. It doesn't always behave the way you might think. In this quiz, you'll be shown 25 quirky expressions and will have to guess the output. Even if you're a JS developer, most of this syntax is probably, and hopefully, not something you use in your daily life. 

Build Better Apps with .NET Aspire - Complete Beginner's Guide & Tutorial

Let's start building better apps with .NET Aspire! Find out how adding .NET Aspire to your existing apps can help them be more observable, resilient, scalable, and manageable. All in just a few lines of code enable these features and at the same time boost developer productivity with features to help you build apps faster including orchestration and service discovery. It also gives you deep insight into your application with OpenTelemetry and a developer dashboard on your local development machine or in the cloud. We will also take a look at how to deploy your projects that use .NET Aspire and how it works under the hood. Finally, we will look at how to use some of these great features in non-.NET projects such as JavaScript and Python!

The conclusion of the analysis:
C# Wasm AOT still has a long way to become a general and performant client side web programming platform. Note: The usage of the Uno.Wasm.Bootstrap toolchain may have affected the performance of some of the benchmarks. Thus, this analysis should not be regarded as a benchmark of the finalized product. However, note that the Uno platform is using ".NET 6 WebAssembly Mixed mode AOT/Interpreter" (source).