In this video Anders Hejlsberg spends some time discussing TypeScript. He starts with the reasons behind creating TypeScript (the so called elevator speech) and then moves on to some of the features coming in the next release. He mentions a number of features but spends the time discussing the null (and corresponding undefined) types and how TypeScript 2 makes handling them much easier. 

SQLite compiled to javascript

For the impatients, try the demo here: http://kripken.github.io/sql.js/examples/GUI  

sql.js is a port of SQLite to Webassembly, by compiling the SQLite C code with Emscripten. It uses a virtual database file stored in memory, and thus doesn't persist the changes made to the database. However, it allows you to import any existing sqlite file, and to export the created database as a javascript typed array.  

As previously announced, Visual Studio has partnered with some of the most popular game engines to bring you an easy acquisition experience for game development tools.  Today we are pleased to confirm that we now provide the ability to acquire and install the Unreal Engine directly from the IDE.  

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 Preview 2 and Visual Studio for Mac version 8.3 Preview 2 Released! 

Learn how to harness the power of the Syncfusion UI components from within a Blazor server application. We’ll also integrate the Microsoft Identity technology into our Blazor application to leverage login, registration, authorization and authentication functionality. Syncfusion provides a UI component suite for building powerful web, desktop, and mobile apps.

⭐️ Course Contents ⭐️
⌨️ (0:00:13) Introduction
⌨️ (0:00:49) Course Overview
⌨️ (0:10:25) Technologies used to Develop the Sales Management Application
⌨️ (0:13:20) Getting Started - Create the Blazor Project through Visual Studio 2022
⌨️ (0:15:02) Introduction to the Syncfusion DataGrid Component
⌨️ (0:43:39) Create the Database using Ef Core Code First Migrations
⌨️ (1:22:02) Integrate the Syncfusion DataGrid Component into the Application
⌨️ (3:02:44) Integrate the Syncfusion ListView component into the Sale Management Application
⌨️ (4:25:23) Integration of the Syncfusion Charts into the Sales Management Application to Display Sales Order Analytical Data
⌨️ (5:11:04) Create Dashboards for Employees
⌨️ (6:03:51) Integrate the Syncfusion Diagram into the Sales Management Application
⌨️ (6:22:25) Integrate the Syncfusion Scheduler into the Sales Management Application
⌨️ (6:52:53) Integrate Microsoft Identity into the Sales Management Application
⌨️ (7:40:34) Wrapping up 

- The assembly discovery mechanism in type scanning has new methods to scan for “.exe” files as Assembly candidates. I had removed “.exe” file searching in 4.0 thinking that it was more problematic than helpful, then several users asked for it back.

- The assembly discovery handles the PrivateBinPath of the AppDomain in all (known) cases now

- Child container creation is thread safe now 

In this blog post, I’m going to cover the following topics:

• The new DateOnly and TimeOnly types
• Time Zone Conversion APIs
• Time Zone Display Names on Linux and macOS
• TimeZoneInfo.AdjustmentRule Improvements

For even more details, you can also refer to dotnet/runtime#45318 on GitHub. 

As React celebrates its 11th anniversary in 2024, it’s worth looking ahead to the exciting developments in the React ecosystem. In this blog, we’ll explore various aspects of the ecosystem, building on what was happening in 2023 and what you can expect in the coming year. 

Here’s what’s new in this preview release:

• .NET Hot Reload updates for dotnet watch
• ASP.NET Core SPA templates updated to Angular 11 and React 17
• Use Razor syntax in SVG foreignObject elements
• Specify null for Action and RenderFragment component parameters
• Reduced Blazor WebAssembly download size with runtime relinking
• Configurable buffer threshold before writing to disk in Json.NET output formatter
• Subcategories for better filtering of Kestrel logs
• Faster get and set for HTTP headers
• Configurable unconsumed incoming buffer size for IIS 

Simple, elegant spark lines for Angular  Demo

Features

• Simple. Integrate in seconds.
• Scalable. Uses SVG for sharp, scalable graphs. Will fill the parent container, or you can provide a fixed size.
• Beautiful. Built-in gradient support, and customizable smoothing.
• Animatable. Support for on-mount animations where the trend graph draws from left to right.
• Tiny. Zero-dependency, gzips to <3kb.