We’ll compare the frameworks when transported to the world of mobile app development.
Besides all the other improvements in EF Core 3.0, preview 9 includes fixes for more than 100 issues that we resolved since Preview 8.
Go Live
This release is supported in production and you can call Microsoft support with issues.
In this article I will explain some general purpose queries. I think each developer should have knowledge of these queries. These queries are not related to any specific topic of SQL. But knowledge of such queries can solve some complex tasks and may be used in many scenarios, so I decided to write an article on these queries.
From LGPL to Polyform Noncommercial
From version 5, we have changed the license from LGPL to Polyform Noncommercial 1.0.0 - a license that permits noncommercial use only. In combination with the Polyform Noncommercial license we sell licenses for customers who use EPPlus in a commercial business. Since EPPlus has been around for a while, you might wonder why we have decided to do this change.
The C# language itself has changed little in version 6, the main importance of the release being the introduction of the Roslyn .NET Compiler Platform. However the New features and improvements that have been made to C# are welcome because they are aimed at aiding productivity. Paulo Morgado explains what they are, and how to use them.
.NET 5 Preview 7 is now available and is ready for evaluation. Here’s what’s new in this release:
- Blazor WebAssembly apps now target .NET 5
- Updated debugging requirements for Blazor WebAssembly
- Blazor accessibility improvements
- Blazor performance improvements
- Certificate authentication performance improvements
- Sending HTTP/2 PING frames
- Support for additional endpoints types in the Kestrel sockets transport
- Custom header decoding in Kestrel
- Other minor improvements
This page describes how to use the Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Metrics package to perform source code analysis of .NET assemblies from a console application. Visual Studio users can perform source code analysis by clicking the "Analyze" dropdown menu and selecting "Calculate Code Metrics", but I sought to automate this process so I can generate custom code analysis reports from console applications as part of my CI pipeline.
Preview 3 of .NET 8 includes a new project templates to create an API with a TODO service instead of the weather forecast . Looking into the generated code of this template, there are a lot more changes going on such as a slim builder and using a JSON source generator which helps when using AOT to create native .NET binaries. This article looks into the changes coming.
A simple utility to execute a callback when a webfont loads. Demo
This uses the CSS Font Loading Module when available (currently in Chrome 35+ and Opera 22+). When that isn’t available, it uses a very similar approach to the one used in the TypeKit Web Font Loader (which is currently 7.1KB GZIP).
Basically, it creates an element with a font stack including the web font and a default serif/sans-serif typeface. It then uses a test string and measures the dimensions of the element at a certain interval. When the dimensions are different than the default fallback fonts, the font is considered to have loaded successfully.
If you’d like a full polyfill for the CSS Font Loading Module, follow along with Bram Stein’s Font Loader. I believe the specification has changed since he launched this polyfill, but he’s working on an updated version.
