Blazor is the new Microsoft experimental framework that brings C# into any browser without a plug-in. It holds the promise of modern single-page applications, combined with the ability to use C# and its vast base-class library. Blazor takes C# development to a new level. It’s the final piece necessary to make the language a full-stack development tool. It will have all the power of the popular JavaScript frameworks, but based on the familiar languages, APIs and tooling of the Microsoft .NET Framework. 

Here’s a summary of what’s new in this preview release:

• Request decompression middleware
• Output caching middleware
• Updates to rate limiting middleware
• Kestrel support for WebSockets over HTTP/2
• Kestrel performance improvements on high core machines
• Support for logging additional request headers in W3CLogger
• Empty Blazor project templates
• System.Security.Cryptography support on WebAssembly
• Blazor custom elements no longer experimental
• Experimental QuickGrid component for Blazor
• gRPC JSON transcoding multi-segment parameters
• MapGroup support for more extension methods 

What’s new for performance in .NET Core and ASP.NET Core 3.0 – Ben Adams
One of the biggest advantages of using .NET Core (besides cross-platform support) is the drastic improvements in performance. Because the .NET Core team was able to make minor breaking changes in the runtime and Base Class Library (BCL), lots of stuff was implemented much more efficiently. In this session Ben will dive into the performance improvements in .NET Core in the 3.0 release: runtime changes, JIT changes, intrinsics and a deep dive into some of the improvements making it the best release yet!

How I've set up my new Windows development environment in 2022 

There are two supported choices of runtime for building server-side applications with .NET: .NET Framework and .NET Core. Both share a lot of the same .NET platform components and you can share code across the two. However, there are fundamental differences between the two and your choice will depend on what you want to accomplish. This article provides guidance on when to use each. 

Announcing VSCodeThemes

Preview themes from the VSCode marketplace.

About 5 months ago I posted a side project to r/vscode that got relatively popular, and since then I’ve been working on making it useful.

Medium Blog

A unified Windows operating system across all devices, from Windows desktops to Xbox One. How does that sound? Well, that’s what Windows Core OS is all about.

Though Microsoft has not officially released it yet, there is a lot of expectation online about this operating system and its potential to change the world of smart devices. 

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

• Improved Blazor accessibility
• Required Blazor component parameters
• Efficient byte array transfers for JavaScript interop
• Optional parameters for view component tag helpers
• Angular template updated to Angular 12
• OpenAPI support for minimal APIs
• Inject services into minimal APIs without [FromServices] attribute
• Configure the accept socket for Kestrel
• IHttpActivityFeature
• Long running activity tag for SignalR connections
• WebSocket compression
• SignalR WebSockets TestServer support
• New OnCheckSlidingExpiration event for controlling cookie renewal
• ClientCertificateMode.DelayCertificate 

Mini Course #1 Clean Architecture + CQRS - YouTube

00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:10 - Why do we record this course?
00:04:39 - Layered architecture: Why I don't like it anymore?
00:27:27 - Clean architecture
00:38:16 - Course prerequisites (still can't pronounce it correctly)
00:42:30 - What do we build?
00:45:18 - *Domain Layer*
00:49:57 - Entity
01:00:20 - Primitive obsession code smell
01:03:20 - Value Object
01:10:54 - Custom exceptions
01:33:25 - Domain model validation
01:38:55 - Aggregate
01:50:50 - Domain event
02:14:30 - Factory
02:28:50 - Policy
02:43:50 - Repository
02:48:55 - Domain Layer: Summary
02:56:45 - CQS: Command Query Separation
03:07:46 - CQRS: Command Query Responsibility Segregation
03:29:48 - *Application Layer*
03:30:25 - Command/Command Handler/Command Dispatcher definitions
03:40:45 - Automatic command handlers registration
03:44:12 - Application & Domain registration
03:50:52 - Command
03:55:31 - Command Handler
04:01:11 - Where to put methods related to reading?
04:07:00 - Read Service
04:14:14 - Weather Service
04:28:25 - Overview of the other commands & command handlers
04:34:35 - Query/Query Handler/Query Dispatcher definitions
04:44:37 - Automatic query handlers registration (BONUS: example of copy/paste pattern)
04:52:50 - How to tackle reading on Query side?
05:06:30 - *Infrastructure Layer*
05:07:56 - Configuration of Entity Framework Core
05:15:15 - Read Models
05:19:05 - ReadDbContext & WriteDbContext
05:24:13 - EF Entity Configuration
05:42:37 - DbContexts registration
05:55:51 - Query Handlers
06:12:18 - Repository implementation on top of EF Core
06:16:45 - Read Service implementation on top of EF Core
06:19:00 - Dummy Weather Service implementation
06:23:20 - EF Migration
06:29:50 - Applying EF migrations automatically
06:39:38 - *Presentation Layer*
06:41:35 - Controller
06:50:43 - How to return ID of resource in CQRS approach?
07:00:02 - Testing API
07:09:29 - *Cross Cutting Concerns*
07:09:30 - Error Handling
07:20:49 - Logging
07:34:57 - *Unit Testing*
07:42:34 - Unit Test on Domain Layer
08:09:45 - Unit Test on Application Layer
08:34:00 - Summary 

There's no extra IL code for the var keyword: the resulting IL should be identical for non-anonymous types.