thanks to a new feature added in Visual Studio 2019 16.1, we can combine the best of both worlds when it comes to support the App Installer technology: the easiness of automatically generating an .appinstaller file as part of the package creation process and the flexibility of the new update features added in Windows 10 1903. 

The C# language itself has changed little in version 6, the main importance of the release being the introduction of the Roslyn .NET Compiler Platform. However the New features and improvements that have been made to C# are welcome because they are aimed at aiding productivity. Paulo Morgado explains what they are, and how to use them. 

A .NET GIS solution that is fast and reliable for the .NET platform.
NetTopologySuite is a direct-port of all the functionalities offered by JTS Topology Suite: NTS expose JTS in a '.NET way', as example using Properties, Indexers etc...

Channels are a construct that simplifies concurrent execution and pipelining of data and is often touted as one of the main draws of Go. But did you know that .NET also has built-in support for channels? 

.NET 7 brings your apps increased performance and new features for C# 11/F# 7, .NET MAUI, ASP.NET Core/Blazor, Web APIs, WinForms, WPF and more. With .NET 7, you can also easily containerize your .NET 7 projects, set up CI/CD workflows in GitHub actions, and achieve cloud-native observability.

Thanks to the open-source .NET community for your numerous contributions that helped shape this .NET 7 release. 28k contributions made by over 8900 contributors throughout the .NET 7 release!

.NET remains one of the fastest, most loved, and trusted platforms with an expansive .NET package ecosystem that includes over 330,000 packages. 

Learn ASP.NET Core MVC (.NET 8) - The Complete Guide

In this Complete Guide course, we will learn MVC (Model-View-Controller) with .NET 8.

When we are working with .NET Core Web Applications,  there are two common ways of building website.
1. MVC (Model-View-Controller) Web Application
2. Razor Pages Web Application

In this course we will learn the basics of .NET Core (.NET 8) and then learn basics of MVC and Razor Pages as we enhance MVC Application to a more complex final project!.

Topics Covered
- Fundamentals of .NET Core
- MVC Application
- Razor Pages
- Entity Framework Core
- Repository Pattern
- ViewBag
- ViewData
- TempData
- Taostr and sweet alerts in .NET Core
- Datatables in .NET Core
- Assignments
- Errors and how to solve them! 

An Introduction to .NET MAUI For Mobile Development

.NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) is a cross-platform framework for creating native mobile and desktop apps with C# and XAML.
.NET MAUI is open-source and is the evolution of Xamarin.Forms, extended from mobile to desktop scenarios, with UI controls rebuilt from the ground up for performance and extensibility. If you've previously used Xamarin.Forms to build cross-platform user interfaces, you'll notice many similarities with .NET MAUI. However, there are also some differences. Using .NET MAUI, you can create multi-platform apps using a single project, but you can add platform-specific source code and resources if necessary. One of the key aims of .NET MAUI is to enable you to implement as much of your app logic and UI layout as possible in a single code-base.

0:00 - Setup Visual Studio and MAUI Project
00:16:25 - Create MAUI Pages with C#
00:27:42 - Create MAUI Pages with XAML
00:32:28 - Explore MAUI Layouts
00:39:38 - Static Shared Resources
00:44:36 - Platform Specific Values
00:50:11 - Page Navigation  

In this post I'll show how to create a logging provider that writes logs to the file system. In production, I'd recommended using a more fully-featured system like Serilog instead of this library, but I wanted to see what was involved to get a better idea of the process myself.

The code for the file logging provider is available on GitHub, or as the NetEscapades.Extensions.Logging.RollingFile package on NuGet. 

Spawn an Online Game with Blazor, .NET 7 and Clean Architecture in under 60 minutes

In this fun talk, Luke Parker will show you step-by-step how to build a playable game in under 60 minutes. He will go over some basic game design, project planning, then build the game and finally… play live with the audience! Utilizing code sharing and the magic of Clean Architecture allows for very rapid app development. Also, leveraging MudBlazor as the component library lets you save time and to focus on what really matters.