As we come to towards the end of 2023, we are excited to announce the general availability of PowerShell 7.4! This release is built on .NET 8 and similarly, is our latest Long Term Support (LTS) release supported for 3 years. 

.NET Conf: Focus on Windows is a free, one-day livestream event that features speakers from the community and Microsoft teams working on Windows desktop apps and making them fantastic on the latest .NET 5. Learn why and how to upgrade WPF and Windows Forms apps to .NET 5, see Visual Studio tooling improvements, learn how to leverage cloud services from your client apps, and a whole lot more. You'll also see what the future of native device development with .NET will look like in .NET 6.  

 Right-to-left languages are now supported natively in Markdown files, issues, pull requests, discussions, and comments. 

Here are some additional changes in SQL Server 2016.

Feature	SQL 2014	SQL 2016
Foreign Keys	Not supported	Supported
Check/Unique Constraints	Not supported	Supported
Parallelism	Not supported	Supported
Indexes on NULLable columns	Not supported	Supported
Maximum size of durable table	256 GB	2 TB
ALTER PROCEDURE / sp_recompile	Not supported	Supported
SSMS Table Designer	Not supported	Supported
Check/Unique Constraints	Not supported	Supported

Roslyn analyzers inspect your code for style, quality, maintainability, design and other issues. Because they are powered by the .NET Compiler Platform, they can produce warnings in your code as you type even before you’ve finished the line. In other words, you don’t have to build your code to find out that you made a mistake. Analyzers can also surface an automatic code fix through the Visual Studio light bulb prompt that allows you to clean up your code immediately. 

In this post I'm going to outline my approach on writing Directives for Angular 1.x releases. There's a lot of confusion around how and why and where to do things with Directives, but they are actually very simple once you grasp the concepts and separation ideas

Entity Framework half-heartedly supported Domain-Driven Design patterns. But the new-from-scratch EF Core has brought new hope for developers to map your well-designed domain classes to a database, reducing the cases where a separate data model is needed. EF Core 2.1 is very DDD friendly, even supporting things like fully encapsulated collections, backing fields and the return of support for value objects. In this session, we'll review some well-designed aggregates and explore how far EF Core 2.1 goes to act as the mapper between your domain classes and your data store. 

Learn Blazor Hybrid - Full Course for Beginners | Build cross-platform apps in C#

Let's start our journey together to build beautiful native cross-platform apps for iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows with Blazor Hybrid, .NET MAUI, C#, and Visual Studio! In this full workshop, I will walk you through everything you need to know about .NET MAUI and building your very first app. You will learn the basics including how to build user interfaces with Razor, how to show data from the internet, how to navigate between pages and combine .NET MAUI pages with Razor pages, access platform features like geolocation, and theme your app for light theme and dark theme. This course has everything you need to learn the basics and set you up for success when building apps with Blazor Hybrid!

Chapters:

00:00:00 - Intro to the Blazor Hybrid Workshop

00:04:28 - What is Blazor Hybrid & How to Install

00:06:51 - First Blazor Hybrid App & Architecture

00:21:40 - Get Code to Build Your First Blazor Hybrid App

00:26:38 - Blazor Hybrid Project Walkthrough

00:39:22 - Start to Build First Blazor Hybrid App

01:03:10 - Event Handling, Data Binding and Parameters (Slides)

01:09:00 - Add Monkey Data & Fluent UI Blazor Components

01:32:08 - Navigation, NavigationManager, .NET MAUI Pages (Slides)

01:39:19 - Navigation with NavigationManager

01:52:39 - Navigation with NavLinks

01:57:21 - Add .NET MAUI Pages & Components

02:21:11 - Access Platform Functionality (Slides)

02:27:57 - Check Network Connectivity

02:38:04 - Get User Location with Geolocation

02:49:09 - Integration with Other Apps

02:57:42 - App Theming, Light Theme, Dark Theme (Slides)

03:05:36 - JavaScript Interoperability with IJSRuntime

03:20:48 - Theming FluentUI Blazor Components

03:26:05 - Style Status Bar with .NET MAUI Community Toolkit

03:39:00 - .NET MAUI Light & Dark Theme with AppThemeBinding

03:42:58 - Sharing State & Creating Reusable Components (Slides)

03:47:27 - Implement Shared State Blazor Hybrid & .NET MAUI

04:02:47 - Create Reusable Razor Components

04:08:31 - CONGRATULATIONS!

In this article, we'll walk you through updating an existing ASP.NET Core 1.x project to ASP.NET Core 2.0. Migrating your application to ASP.NET Core 2.0 enables you to take advantage of many new features and performance improvements.