Today, the Entity Framework Core team announces the second preview release of EF Core 6.0. This release includes changes to handling the synchronization context when SaveChangesAsync is called, smoother integration with System.Linq.Async, updates to string concatenation and improvements to free text search. 

November 12, 2014

Today, we are happy to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 4 Release to Manufacturing (RTM).
This update is the latest in a cumulative series of feature additions and bug fixes for Visual Studio 2013.

More information:
http://www.visualstudio.com/news/vs2013-update4-rtm-vs

Download full ISO:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=512594

SHA-1 Values:
http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/visual-studio-2013-iso-sha1-vs

They also released the new Visual Studio Community 2013:
http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community-vs

 

Today, the Entity Framework Core team announces the eighth and final preview release of EF Core 5.0. The next release will be a release candidate (RC). This release includes table-per-type (TPT) mapping, table-valued functions, SQLite table rebuilds for migrations and much more. 

Keeping up with JavaScript frameworks can be a challenge. There are a lot of them, and seemingly another one every month. How do you know which ones might be right for your project? What are their strengths and weaknesses? How do you get started? 

Here’s a summary of what’s new in this preview release:

• Improved ASP.NET Core debugging experience
• Servers & middleware
  • IHttpSysRequestTimingFeature
  • SNI hostname in ITlsHandshakeFeature
  • IExceptionHandler
• Blazor
  • New Blazor Web App project template
  • Blazor router integration with endpoint routing
  • Enable interactivity for individual components with Blazor Server
  • Improved packaging of Webcil files
  • Blazor Content Security Policy (CSP) compatibility
• API authoring
  • Support for generic attributes
• SignalR
  • SignalR seamless reconnect
• Native AOT
  • Support for AsParameters and automatic metadata generation in compile-timed generated minimal APIs
• Authentication and authorization
  • Authentication updates in ASP.NET Core SPA templates
  • New analyzer for recommended AuthorizationBuilder usage
   

The IBM Swift Sandbox is an interactive website that lets you write Swift code and execute it in a server environment – on top of Linux! Each sandbox runs on IBM Cloud in a Docker container. In addition, both the latest versions of Swift and its standard library are available for you to use. 

Whilst the new configuration system sit unders the ASP.NET repository on GitHub, it doesn't actually have any dependency on any of the new ASP.NET components meaning it can also be used in your non .net core projects too. 

Google Chrome is the most popular web browser used by web developers today. With a quick six week release cycle and a powerful set of ever expanding developer features turned the browser into a must have tool.