D3 6.0: The Data-Driven Document Library — The popular data visualization library takes a step forward by switching out a few internal dependencies for better alternatives, adopts ES2015 (a.k.a. ES6) internally, and now passes events directly to listeners. There’s also a 5.x to 6.0 migration guide for existing users. 

One good example of using a single-method interface instead of a delegate is IComparable or the generic version, IComparable<T>. IComparable declares the CompareTo method, which returns an integer that specifies a less than, equal to, or greater than relationship between two objects of the same type. IComparable can be used as the basis of a sort algorithm. Although using a delegate comparison method as the basis of a sort algorithm would be valid, it is not ideal. Because the ability to compare belongs to the class and the comparison algorithm does not change at run time, a single-method interface is ideal. 

This project is the next generation of the ASP.NET Boilerplate web application framework.

Modular Architecture
Designed as modular and extensible from the bottom to the top.

Microservice Focused
Designed to support microservice architecture and helps to build autonomous microservices.

Domain Driven Design
Designed and developed based on DDD patterns and principles. Provides a layered model for your application.

Authorization
Advanced authorization with user, role and fine-grained permission system. Built on the Microsoft Identity library.

Multi-Tenancy
SaaS applications made easy! Integrated multi-tenancy from database to UI.

Cross Cutting Concerns
Complete infrastructure for authorization, validation, exception handling, caching, audit logging, transaction management and so on. 

Entity Framework (EF) Core is the rearchitected and rewritten version of the Entity Framework object relational mapping engine for .NET Core applications. It is very light-weight, extensible, and cross platform.

However, high transaction .NET Core applications using EF Core face performance and scalability bottlenecks in the database-tier under peak loads. This is because, although you can linearly scale the application tier by adding more application servers, you cannot add more database servers to scale it.

But, if you use a distributed cache like NCache in your .NET Core applications, you can quickly remove these performance and scalability bottlenecks and handle extreme transaction loads. 

The preview release of PowerShell 7.1 includes .NET 5 preview 1. Starting with PowerShell 7.0, devs have shifted to align with .NET’s release and support life-cycle more closely. PowerShell 7.1 is expected to become available within a week or two of .NET 5’s release date of winter 2020 and align with their annual release cadence going forward. 

We are excited to announce the release of .NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET Core 1.0 and Entity Framework 1.0, available on Windows, OS X and Linux! .NET Core is a cross-platform, open source, and modular .NET platform for creating modern web apps, microservices, libraries and console applications.

This release includes the .NET Core runtime, libraries and tools and the ASP.NET Core libraries. We are also releasing Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code extensions that enable you to create .NET Core projects. You can get started at https://dot.net/core. Read the release notes for detailed release information. 

With these tools, the .NET SDK installed, and the dotnet CLI discoverable from the environment PATH, developers would have good support when developing against the newer SDK-style projects.