Visual Studio is a powerful IDE, but its focus didn’t align with some languages, PHP being one of them. As time progressed more languages found their way to Visual Studio, like Python and eventually PHP. 

Loci is a multi-paradigm systems programming language. Or, to describe it in a slightly more intuitive way, it’s very similar to, and a close competitor of, C++. 

Rider is a full featured, cross platform .NET IDE based on ReSharper and IntelliJ. The front end and user interface is built on the proven IntelliJ platform, just like WebStorm or IntelliJ IDEA, and can run on Windows, Linux and Mac. But the engine that drives all of your favourite JetBrains IDE features is ReSharper, running as an out of process language server.

Vue.js 3 Tutorial for Beginners
Vue.js is a popular javascript framework for building user interfaces. The core Vue library is focussed on doing one thing and doing that one thing really well which is building user interfaces. Vue currently has 175000 github stars on its repo which makes it the third most starred github repository in the world. 

Learn .NET MAUI - Full Course for Beginners | Tutorial for iOS, Android, Mac, Windows in C#
Let's start our journey together to build beautiful native cross-platform apps for iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows with .NET MAUI, C#, and Visual Studio! In this full workshop, I will walk you through everything you need to know about .NET MAUI and building your very first app. You will learn the basics including how to build user interfaces with XAML, how MVVM and data binding simplify development, how to navigate between pages, access platform features like geolocation, optimize data collections, and theme your app for light theme and dark theme. This course has everything you need to learn the basics and set you up for success when building apps with .NET MAUI!

Chapters:
00:00:00 - Intro to the .NET MAUI Workshop
00:04:10 - What is .NET MAUI & How to Install
00:06:25 - Workshop overview
00:08:00 - First .NET MAUI app & Architecture (slides)
00:21:40 - Get code to build your first .NET MAUI app
00:25:00 - .NET MAUI Project Walkthrough
00:29:40 - Start to build first .NET MAUI app
00:56:48 - Intro to MVVM (slides)
01:09:30 - Implementing INotifyPropertyChanged
01:22:30 - .NET Community Toolkit for MVVM (Source Generators)
01:32:30 - HTTP REST Calls & JSON Deserialization
01:43:00 - ICommand in .NET MAUI
01:59:30 - Create our UI with XAML & MVVM
02:16:20 - Navigation in .NET MAUI (slides)
02:25:20 - Implementing Navigation in .NET MAUI & Passing Parameters
02:46:00 - Building a details UI with XAML & MVVM
02:54:10 - Modal, Back Navigation, & More
02:58:20 - Access Platform APIs in .NET MAUI (slides)
03:02:53 - Platform API Integration - Connectivity
03:08:30 - Geolocation & Permissions Implementation
03:18:50 - Open Map Integration
03:22:40 - Platform Specifics - iOS Safe Area
03:25:50 - CollectionView & RefreshView Overview (slides)
03:34:00 - Implementing Pull-to-Refresh
03:40:00 - CollectionView Layouts - Grids and more
03:41:30 - CollectionView EmptyView
03:45:00 - App Resources, Styles, and Themes (slides)
03:56:20 - Implementing Light & Dark Mode
04:06:00 - Thanks, wrap-up, and resources 

Have a repository on GitHub? Planning on making a repository on GitHub? This checklist is intended to introduce you to various features that may help you make the most of your GitHub repository with specific recommendations for C# repsoitories. 

We are extremely excited to announce the general availability of EF Core 3.0and EF 6.3 on  nuget.org . 

What’s new in EF Core 3.0

Including major features, minor enhancements, and bug fixes, EF Core 3.0 contains more than 600 product improvements. Here are some of the most important ones:

•  LINQ overhaul
•  Restricted client evaluation
•  Single SQL statement per LINQ query
•  Cosmos DB support
•  C# 8.0 support (Asynchronous streams, Nullable reference types)
•  Interception of database operations
•  Reverse engineering of database views
•  Dependent entities sharing a table with principal are now optional

 SELECT p.name
 ,p.value
 ,t.name AS TableName
 ,c.name AS ColumnName
 ,c.is_nullable
 ,c.max_length
 ,TYPE_NAME(c.system_type_id)
FROM sys.tables t
JOIN sys.columns c
ON t.object_id = c.object_id
LEFT JOIN sys.extended_properties p
ON p.major_id = t.object_id
AND p.minor_id = c.column_id
ORDER BY t.name DESC,c.name DESC

As of the 1st of July 2019 Microsoft officially ended support for Katana 3. This means that the platform we originally built-against is now unsupported and we completely stop supporting IdentityServer3 (including security bugs) for free now as well. 

State / Direction of C# as a High-Performance Language (Roslyn GitHub Issue #10378)