This blog post contains a mind map of language features starting from C# 1 up til now - including some of the new C# 12 features that will be released in November 2023.

The gist of the story goes as follow:

1. The most popular languages are JavaScript/TypeScript and Python with roughly 20% of all pull requests each. In effect, if you put JavaScript/TypeScript and Python together, you get about 40% of all pull requests.
2. Then you get the second tier languages: Java and Scala, C/C++, and Go. They all are in the 10% to 15% range.
3. Finally, you have PHP, Ruby and C# that all manage to get about 5% of all pull requests.
4. Other languages are typically far below 5%. 

The first preview of Entity Framework Core (EF Core) 8 is available on NuGet today!

Basic information

EF Core 8, or just EF8, is the successor to EF Core 7, and is scheduled for release in November 2023, at the same time as .NET 8.

EF8 currently targets .NET 6. This will likely be updated to .NET 8 as we near release.

EF8 will align with .NET 8 as a long-term support (LTS) release. See the .NET support policy for more information. 

This release brings continued improvements to the C# and .NET experiences, new Git performance and experiences, updates for C++ developers, and new Azure tools for local development and deployment. We also continue to address your direct feedback submitted via Developer Community, addressing over 400 feedback items in this release! You can see the broader list of community feedback addressed in releases by visiting the fixes page on Developer Community. 

C# is usually thought of as a backend, server-side language. But with the Blazor-Web Assembly combo, developers can use it for client-side as well. 

Want to learn about the latest and greatest in the 64-bit Visual Studio 2022? Join Scott Hanselman and Visual Studio product team as they take Visual Studio 2022 for a spin.

20:27 Profiling .NET apps in Visual Studio 2022 

23:19 Cross platform apps with WSL and CMake in Visual Studio 2022 

26:07 Testing your .NET app on Linux 

28:00 Easily create CI/CD pipelines using GitHub actions with Visual Studio  2022

30:40 Balloon drop! 

Between the global tech firms, independent agencies, start-up scene, and boutique studios, Silicon Valley has a greater concentration of designers than anywhere else in the world

The future of WebAssembly - A look at upcoming features and proposals

WebAssembly is a performance optimised virtual machine that was shipped in all four major browsers earlier this year. It is a nascent technology and the current version is very much an MVP (minimum viable product). This blog post takes a look at the WebAssembly roadmap and the features it might be gain in the near future.

I’ll try to keep this blog post relatively high-level, so I’ll skip over some of the more technical proposals, instead focusing on what they might mean for languages that target WebAssembly. 

Learn Minimal APIs in .NET 7
Learn how to build Minimal APIs in .NET 7 with hands-on course. By the end of the course, you will be able to build well-constructed Minimal API Endpoints using C#, .NET7, and Swagger.

⭐️ Contents ⭐️
⌨️ (0:00:00) Introduction
⌨️ (0:01:30) Topics Covered
⌨️ (0:02:47) Why Minimal API?
⌨️ (0:06:07) Create Project
⌨️ (0:07:57) Comparing Files Minimal vs Standard
⌨️ (0:11:05) Program file changes
⌨️ (0:13:50) Clean Program class file
⌨️ (0:16:02) API Basics
⌨️ (0:16:44) What is API?
⌨️ (0:21:11) Request and response
⌨️ (0:25:59) Request Object
⌨️ (0:30:12) Response Object
⌨️ (0:35:36) httpverb
⌨️ (0:40:38) Create First Endpoint
⌨️ (0:43:43) Return Types
⌨️ (0:46:15) Route Parameters
⌨️ (0:48:29) Create Coupon Model and Coupon Store
⌨️ (0:51:38) Get All Endpoint
⌨️ (0:53:09) Get Individual Coupon
⌨️ (0:55:19) Create Coupon
⌨️ (0:59:53) Name Endpoints
⌨️ (1:03:17) Products and Accepts in Minimal API
⌨️ (1:06:58) Dependency Injection in Minimal API
⌨️ (1:10:25) Add DTOs
⌨️ (1:13:56) AutoMapper and Dependency Injection
⌨️ (1:18:32) Fluent Validators
⌨️ (1:24:07) Async Endpoints
⌨️ (1:26:11) API Response
⌨️ (1:32:57) Assignment - Put and Delete
⌨️ (1:33:49) Assignment Solution - Put and Delete Endpoints