This release contains the previously released .NET Core 2.1.2 Runtime and the following:

• ASP.NET Core 2.1.2
• .NET Core SDK 2.1.400 

In this post, we introduced the idea that not all performance optimisations need to be complex to implement. In this example, we optimised the ToUrl method of the NEST library by conditionally avoiding executing code we know would cause allocations.  

• Team Explorer - Changes: panel not sizing to the Team Explorer window.
• Visual Studio 2017 SQL Server Object Explorer server list not persisting .
• intellisense problems with linux-x64 mode.
• Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.Parameter name: index.
• Visual Studio 2017 UNDO does not work/stops working (reported AGAIN!!!!).
• Intellisense not working for files created under WSL.
• Intellisense error: C++11 static constexpr member initialization causes "member may not be initialized".
• VS doesn't restore windows position when switching in/out of debug.
• Third party toolbox items are reloaded every time VS2019 Preview 2.2 is started.
• 'Set as StartUp Project' crashes the IDE after updating to VS2019 Preview Release 3.
• Visual Studio 2019 building Visual Studio 2017 C++ projects fail.
• Fixed Toolbox refresh issue.
• Toolbox controls are making vssettings file too big.
• SSDT: Fix for Login failed errors when performing a New Data comparison function .
• SSDT: Fix for Source is Unavailable error when performing Schema Compare .
• SSDT: Fix for Schema Compare Generate Script does not generate script .
• SSDT: Fix to improve performance of loading solutions with multiple projects.
• SSDT: Fix for SQL files not always being deleted when performing a Schema Compare between a database and a project and a delete table is executed subsequently.
• SSDT: Accessibility fixes to improve narration capabilities.
• SSDT: Replaced older sqlncli driver with new Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server. 

Azure Container Instances a simple way to run a container in Azure, without having to manage any virtual machines.

Brady Gaster returns in this follow up to the previous episode on Worker services. This time Brady will show us how to deploy our worker service to Azure Container Instances

• [00:58] - Creating a new container instance
• [03:08] - Exploring the Docker tools in Visual Studio Code
• [04:30] - Reviewing the deployed container instance
• [05:50] - Exploring the tools for Kubernetes in Visual Studio Code
• [09:57] - Kubernetes Namespaces and Deployments
• [12:10] - .NET Architecture Guides 

<Page user={user}  />

<PageLayout user={user} />

<NavigationBar user={user}  />

import React from "react";

export const UserContext = React.createContext({ user: {} });

export const UserProvider = UserContext.Provider;
export const UserConsumer = UserContext.Consumer;

import "../../App.css";

import React, { Component } from "react";

import { UserProvider } from "../../contexts/userContext";
import Main from "./Main";

class App extends Component {
  state = {
    user: { name: "User 1" }
  };

  componentDidMount() {
    // get user from the server or local storage and then set the currently logged in user to the this.state
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <>
        <h1>App Class</h1>
        <UserProvider value={this.state.user}>
          <Main />
        </UserProvider>
      </>
    );
  }
}

export default App;

export const DefaultRouteContext = React.createContext({ path: '/welcome' });

import React from "react";

import { UserConsumer } from "../../contexts/userContext";

export default function Main(props) {
  return (
    <>
      <UserConsumer>
        {value => <div>User name: {value.name}.</div>}
      </UserConsumer>
    </>
  );
}

import React, { useContext } from "react";

import { UserContext } from "../../contexts/userContext";

export default function Main() {
  const value = useContext(UserContext);
  return (
    <>
      <div>User name: {value.name}.</div>
    </>
  );
}

function HeaderBar() {
  return (
    <CurrentUser.Consumer>
      {user =>
        <Notifications.Consumer>
          {notifications =>
            <header>
              Welcome back, {user.name}!
              You have {notifications.length} notifications.
            </header>
          }
      }
    </CurrentUser.Consumer>
  );
}

function HeaderBar() {
  const user = useContext(CurrentUser);
  const notifications = useContext(Notifications);
return (
    <header>
      Welcome back, {user.name}!
      You have {notifications.length} notifications.
    </header>
  );
}

import "../../App.css";

import React, { Component } from "react";

import { UserProvider } from "../../contexts/userContext";
import Main from "./Main2";

class App extends Component {
  state = {
    user: { name: "User 1" }
  };

  componentDidMount() {
    // get user from the server or local storage and then set the currently logged in user to the this.state
  }

  logout = () => {
    console.log("logout");
    this.setState({ user: {} });
  };

  render() {
    const contextValue = {
      user: this.state.user,
      logoutUser: this.logout
    };
    return (
      <>
        <h1>App Class</h1>
        <UserProvider value={contextValue}>
          <Main />
        </UserProvider>
      </>
    );
  }
}

export default App;

import React, { useContext } from "react";

import { UserContext } from "../../contexts/userContext";

export default function Main() {
  const { user, logoutUser } = useContext(UserContext);
  return (
    <>
      <div>User name: {user.name}.</div>
      <button type="button" className="btn btn-primary" onClick={logoutUser}>
        Logout user
      </button>
    </>
  );
}

import React from "react";

import { UserConsumer } from "../../contexts/userContext";

export default function Main(props) {
  return (
    <>
      <UserConsumer>
        {({ user, logoutUser }) => (
          <>
            <div>User name: {user.name}.</div>
            <button
              type="button"
              className="btn btn-primary"
              onClick={logoutUser}
            >
              Logout user
            </button>
          </>
        )}
      </UserConsumer>
    </>
  );
}

Here are 13 techniques and tools that prove the power of lazy programming. The next time the boss tells you it’s time to roll up your sleeves and lean into the console, head to the nap room instead. 

Here are some of the reasons why nullable reference types are less than ideal:

• Invoking a member on a null value will issue a System.NullReferenceException exception, and every invocation that results in a System.NullReferenceException in production code is a bug. Unfortunately, however, with nullable reference types we “fall in” to doing the wrong thing rather than the right thing. The “fall in” action is to invoke a reference type without checking for null.
• There’s an inconsistency between reference types and value types (following the introduction of Nullable<T>) in that value types are nullable when decorated with  “?” (for example, int? number); otherwise, they default to non-nullable. In contrast, reference types are nullable by default. This is “normal” to those of us who have been programming in C# for a long time, but if we could do it all over, we’d want the default for reference types to be non-nullable and the addition of a “?” to be an explicit way to allow nulls.
• It’s not possible to run static flow analysis to check all paths regarding whether a value will be null before dereferencing it, or not. Consider, for example, if there were unmanaged code invocations, multi-threading, or null assignment/­replacement based on runtime conditions. (Not to mention whether analysis would include checking of all library APIs that are invoked.)
• There’s no reasonable syntax to indicate that a reference type value of null is invalid for a particular declaration.
• There’s no way to decorate parameters to not allow null. 

"addDate": {
       type: "string", // use "date" if you want to use the built-in datapicker
       validation: { required: true }
}

filterable: {
                     ui: function(element) {
                     var name = $(element[0]).data("bind").replace("[","").replace("]","").replace(".","").replace(" ","").replace(":","");
                     $(element[0])
                                  .addClass("k-input k-textbox")
                                  .attr("style", "width:100%")
                                  .attr("data-mddatetimepicker", "true")
                                  .attr("data-englishnumber", "true")
                                  .attr("data-trigger", "click")
                                  .attr("data-targetselector", "#" + name)
                                  .attr("data-fromdate", "true")
                                  .attr("data-enabletimepicker", "false")
                                  .attr("data-placement", "right")
                                  .attr("name", name)
                                  .attr("id", name);
                                EnableMdDateTimePickers();
                            }
                        }

                filter: function(args) {
                    console.log(args);
                    if(args.field === "addDate") {
                        for(var i = 0; i < args.filter.filters.length; i++) {
                            var filterValue = args.filter.filters[i].value;
                            if(filterValue) {
                               args.filter.filters[i].value = moment(filterValue, 'jYYYY/jMM/jDD').format('YYYY-MM-DD');
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },