The previews of EF Core 5.0 require .NET Standard 2.1. This means:

• EF Core 5.0 runs on .NET Core 3.1; it does not require .NET 5.
  • This may change in future previews depending on how the plan for .NET 5 evolves.
• EF Core 5.0 runs on other platforms that support .NET Standard 2.1.
• EF Core 5.0 will not run on .NET Standard 2.0 platforms, including .NET Framework. 

The .NET Core Debugging with WSL 2 – Preview extension lets you run and debug your .NET Core console and web applications in WSL 2 from Visual Studio. This allows Windows developers targeting Linux production environments to have a higher fidelity local debugging experience.

Samsung has released the fourth preview of Visual Studio Tools for Tizen. Tizen is a Linux-based open source OS running on over 50 million Samsung devices including TVs, wearables, and mobile phones. Since announcing its collaboration with Microsoft on .NET Core and Xamarin.Forms projects last November, Samsung has steadily released preview versions of.NET support for Tizen with enriched features, such as supporting TV application development and various Visual Studio tools for Tizen.

Generally speaking, I don't worry much about tweaking my LINQ queries when working with Entity Framework (this is also true when I'm working with SQL directly, by the way). I'm always telling my clients that if they want to speed up their data access they should look at their database design and, especially, how they're using indexes.

 It’s a library. And therefore you can attach any javascript library of your choice as add-ons

State Management is more flexible

JSX syntax blends well together with javascript

Faster learning curve

Modern Web Development is challenging and the way we develop web apps are now different than before

You can reuse components effortlessly because they’re all just pure functions

Cookie-based TempData provider for ASP.NET Core MVC applications. TempData values are serialized in BSON and protected via the data protection API. 

In this episode, Robert is joined by Nick Landry, who shows us how to integrate Cortana into apps. Among the topics Nick covers and shows are voice commands, speech recognition and synthesis, background voice commands and continuous dictation.

“I’ve written before about how React is the new default frontend framework, and how I don’t think most people using React on a regular basis realize quite how much it’s fallen behind.” High level thoughts about the React ‘bubble’ and some reasons to look beyond it, including a round up of some of the alternative options. 

If you maintain an open-source project in the range of 10k-200k lines of code, I strongly encourage you to add an ARCHITECTURE document next to README and CONTRIBUTING. Before going into the details of why and how, I want to emphasize that this is not another “docs are good, write more docs” advice. I am pretty sloppy about documentation, and, eg, I often use just “simplify” as a commit message. Nonetheless, I feel strongly about the issue, even to the point of pestering you:-) 

A few years ago, we took over maintenance and guidance for the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit project. Please refer to this blog post for more information on the project and why we stepped in to assist.
As part of our ongoing commitment to the project, we’ve released an update (ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit v19.1.0) to address the following issues.
Improvements
- Visual Studio 2019 Support
- Security hardening: HTML-encode file names in AjaxFileUpload (#483)