[CLI] Build-time performance improvements.
[CLI] Global tools; replaces .NET CLI Tools (DotNetCliToolReference).
[CoreCLR] Minor-version roll-forward.
[CoreCLR] No-copy array slicing with Span<T>.
[CoreFX] HttpClient performance improvements.
[CoreFX] Windows Compatibility Pack.
[ASP.NET] SignalR is available for .NET Core.
[ASP.NET] HTTPS is on by default for ASP.NET.
[EF] Basic lazy loading support.
[EF] Support for Azure Cosmos DB.

.NET Serialization Benchmark 2019 Roundup 

• We improved solution load performance by optimizing design time build.
• We've added installation progress details on Visual Studio Installer.
• You can pause your installation and resume at a later time.
• We streamlined the update process so the notification takes you directly to the Installer.
• Non-administrators can create a VS layout.
• We added a new shortcut for Edit.Duplicate in the keyboard mapping.
• We made significant improvements to the F# language and tools, particularly for .NET Core SDK projects.
• The C++ compiler optimizes your code to run faster through improved optimizations.
• C++ Mapfile generation overhead is reduced in full linking scenarios.
• Debug options are available for Embedded ARM GCC support.
• We added strong name signing on CoreCLR for the C# compiler.
• Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin has lots of new productivity updates for iOS and Android developers.
• Python no longer requires a completion DB, and Anaconda users have support for conda.
• The Performance Profiler's CPU Usage Tool can display logical call stacks for asynchronous code.
• The CPU Usage tool displays source line highlighting and async/await code with logical 'Call Stack Stitching'.
• The debugger supports thread names set via SetThreadDescription APIs in dump debugging.
• Snapshot Debugging can be started from the Debug Target dropdown for ASP.NET applications.
• We've launched the initial implementation of Navigate to decompiled sources for .NET code navigation.
• New enhancements for Configure Continuous Delivery include support for TFVC, Git authentication over SSH, and containerized projects.
• You can now click on the Continuous Delivery tile in Team Explorer to configure automated build and deployments for your application.
• Team Explorer supports Git tags and checking out pull request branches.
• Service Fabric Tooling for the 6.1 Service Fabric release is now available.
• The Windows 10 Insider Preview SDK can be installed as an optional component.
• File versions for a number of Visual Studio executables now reflect the minor release.
• Test Explorer has a hierarchy view and real time test discovery is now on by default.
• We have added support for testing Win10 IoT Core applications.
• Visual Studio Build Tools supports TypeScript and Node.js.
• ClickOnce Tools support signing application and deployment manifests with CNG certificate.
• You can access Azure resources such as Key Vault using your Visual Studio accounts. 

A few of the customer-requested updates in Microsoft SQL Server 2014 SP1 are:

• Column store performance is improved when batch mode operators spill over to disk. A new XEvent provides insights into column store inserts.
• Several issues in buffer pool extension SSD configuration are addressed, including the ability to do instant initialization of the buffer pool extension file.
• Certain queries compile faster when using new cardinality estimator, and other cardinality estimation query plans are more efficient when using TF-4199. 
• The scalability benefits of two trace flags (TF-1236, TF-9024) are applied automatically.
• Backup header information retrieval works better with encrypted backups.

Performance Improvements to HTTP/2
Reduction in container image sizes 

This release focuses mainly on performance and stability/compatibility improvements 

Improve GPU performance by up to 20%

Today, we are glad to release .NET 6 Preview 2. It includes new APIs, runtime performance improvements, and early builds of .NET MAUI. It also includes builds for Apple Silicon, which were missing for Preview 1. 

Finally, the backend runs on .NET Core runtime by default on macOS and Linux, instead of the Mono runtime. Moving to .NET Core runtime delivers noticeable performance improvements, a lower memory footprint, and multithreaded NuGet restore. 

Advanced C# Programming Course

⭐️ Contents ⭐️
⌨️ (0:00:00) Part 1 - Introduction
⌨️ (0:01:08) Part 2 - Overview of the Advanced C# Course
⌨️ (0:20:46) Part 3 - The Significants of the Release of .NET 5
⌨️ (0:33:17) Part 4 - Delegates - Introduction
⌨️ (0:47:47) Part 5 - Delegates - Create a Code Example
⌨️ (1:51:45) Part 6 - Delegates - Understanding Covariance and Contravariance
⌨️ (2:04:19) Part 7 - Delegates - Fund, Action and Predicate
⌨️ (2:24:26) Part 8 - Delegates - Asynchronous Method Calls
⌨️ (2:39:24) Part 9 - Events - Introduction
⌨️ (2:55:50) Part 10 - Events - Add/Remove Accessors
⌨️ (2:22:44) Part 11 - Events - User Actions & UWP
⌨️ (3:52:23) Part 12 - Events - The Observer Design Pattern
⌨️ (5:12:33) Part 13 - Generics - Introduction
⌨️ (5:27:30) Part 14 - Generics - Understanding Constraints
⌨️ (5:53:42) Part 15 - Generics - Generic Delegates and Events
⌨️ (6:34:56) Part 16 - Generics - The Factory Design Pattern
⌨️ (6:56:23) Part 17 - Async / Await Task - Introduction
⌨️ (7:35:36) Part 18 - Async / Await Task - Task.Run()
⌨️ (8:04:34) Part 19 - Async / Await Task - Best Practices
⌨️ (8:45:23) Part 20 - Async / Await Task - Cancelling Asynchronous Operations
⌨️ (9:13:47) Part 21 - LINQ - Introduction
⌨️ (9:50:14) Part 22 - LINQ - Queries
⌨️ (10:29:57) Part 23 - LINQ - Operators
⌨️ (11:16:51) Part 24 - LINQ - More Operators and Summary
⌨️ (12:18:46) Part 25 - C# Attributes
⌨️ (13:33:13) Part 26 - C# Reflection
⌨️ (14:34:53) Part 27 - .NET Framework and .NET Core
⌨️ (14:39:06) Part 28 - .NET 6
⌨️ (14:50:52) Part 29 - .NET 7