To ensure the continuation of the Six Labors libraries we are planning to introduce license changes 

Use Rust or C#, abandon C++: Five Eyes agencies warn about memory safety in programming languages 

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In August 2020, Google announced their 'Privacy Sandbox' initiative, which aims to preserve and protect user's privacy. The cookie processing change is part of this initiative. An official  blog post sheds some light on it.

Google will drop support for third-party cookies in the Chrome browser in two years. Also, the company will start limiting cross-site tracking by enforcing its new SameSite rules . This has already happened in Chrome 80.

The SameSite-by-default and SameSite=None-requires-Secure behaviors will begin rolling out to Chrome 80 Stable for an initial limited population starting the week of February 17, 2020. 

Safe and Secure Drivers in High-Level Languages

Agile is a term used to describe approaches to software development emphasizing incremental delivery, team collaboration, continual planning, and continual learning. The term “Agile” was coined in 2001 in the Agile Manifesto. The manifesto set out to establish principles to guide a better approach to software development. The manifesto set out to establish principles to guide a better approach to software development. At its core, the manifesto declares 4 value statements representing the foundation of the agile movement.

• Delete option is missing from solution explorer context menu in Xamarin Forms Android projects.
• Xamarin.Android: Can't select target framework 28 in Android Manifest settings.
• Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.PageInspector.Loader, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
• "There was an error running the selected code generator" when trying to create a new view.
• Android Berechtigungsliste ist leer-Android permission list is empty.
• Missing icons for .axml files in Visual Studio 2019.
• axml icons are not displayed.
• Visual Studio extensions may fail to install attempting to overwrite core NuGet files.
• C# switch statement on a constant expression may produce bad compiler errors. 

After 21 months of public development, CoreWCF has finally reached its first GA release. 

Today Microsoft announced the next version of Windows and a new Windows Store, and we’re excited to see how people take advantage of its new features. One thing that hasn’t changed is that Windows is still the best platform to design, build, test, and deploy Android apps.  

$1M Microsoft Donation to Fund Key Rust Foundation & Project Priorities