To be able to make full use of the system catalog to find out more about a database, you need to be familiar with the metadata functions. They save a great deal of time and typing when querying the metadata. Once you get the hang of these functions, the system catalog suddenly seems simple to use, as Robert Sheldon demonstrates in this article.
Getting Started
Installing ASP.NET 5 On Windows
Installing ASP.NET 5 On Mac OS X
Installing ASP.NET 5 On Linux
Choosing the Right .NET For You on the Server
Tutorials
Your First ASP.NET 5 Application Using Visual Studio
Your First ASP.NET 5 Application on a Mac
Publish to an Azure Web App using Visual Studio
Conceptual Overview
Introduction to ASP.NET 5
Introducing .NET Core
DNX Overview
Understanding ASP.NET 5 Web Apps
Fundamentals
Working with Static Files
Routing
Configuration
Dependency Injection
Diagnostics
Working with Multiple Environments
OWIN
.NET Execution Environment (DNX)
DNX Overview
Creating a Cross-Platform Console App with DNX
Working with DNX Projects
Using Commands
Publishing and Deployment
Publish to a Docker Image
Client-Side Development
Grunt and Gulp: Task Runners
Manage Client-Side Packages with Bower
Building Beautiful, Responsive Sites with Bootstrap
Knockout.js MVVM Framework
Styling Applications with Less, Sass, and Font Awesome
Security
Enabling authenication using external providers
Account Confirmation and Password Recovery with ASP.NET Identity
Two-factor authenication with SMS using ASP.NET Identity
Data Protection
Extensibility
Writing Middleware 
You don't need Axios, well, for most use cases. The web is maturing, and the days of Axios are ending.
With .NET 6 previews starting right around the corner, it is time to start getting excited for the new .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) that was announced at BUILD 2020. This year of .NET has a lot of amazing things for client application developers. Let’s review the highlights and set your expectations for the year ahead.
Quivr, your second brain, utilizes the power of GenerativeAI to store and retrieve unstructured information. Think of it as Obsidian, but turbocharged with AI capabilities.
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!
VSCode for the C# Developer - Tim Corey - NDC London 2023
VSCode is a nimble editor that can do just about anything. In this session, we will set up and configure VSCode for use in C# development. Then we will use it to build, debug, and deploy a small .NET Core web application to Azure.
Along the way, we will go over a list of the top C#-focused plugins for VSCode. Whether you are just getting started with VSCode or you are used to VSCode but want to start building C# projects, this session will get you up to speed fast.
