Announcing Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 5.2.4, Web API 5.2.4, and Web Pages 3.2.4 

This release contains some minor bug fixes and a couple of new features specifically targeted at enabling .NET Standard support for the ASP.NET Web API Client.  

We’ve added new features and APIs in the following areas of the product:

• TLS 1.1/1.2 support for ClickOnce
• Enabling .NET desktop apps with Project Centennial
• Support for additional cryptography standards
• Soft keyboard and per-monitor DPI support for WPF 

NHibernate 4.0 GA has been released. It comes with .NET 4.0 support, moving away from the Iesi.Collections library, and also supports some SQL Server 2012 features such as sequences and Query Paging. 

In this post, I will show you how to use the .NET CLI tools on macOS to clean-up installed SDKs, runtimes, workloads, and NuGet caches. 

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a .NET Core gRPC client and an ASP.NET Core gRPC Server that will communicate with one another

From this benchmark, we are able to understand that Rust has consistent performance and is almost always faster than C# and Go. But that is to be expected as Rust runs on the metal. Between C# and Go the performance seems to be nuanced. As C# and Go seems to outperform each other in difference scenarios. 

Arabic and Hebrew characters
We are also adding Arabic and Hebrew characters to Cascadia Code in mid-June. These are being added to the existing Cascadia Code font set, however they will not yet be included in the italic font variants. 

A .NET guideline specifies that an application should never throw a NullReferenceException. However, many applications and libraries do. The NullReferenceException is the most common exception happening. That’s why C# 8 tries to get rid of it. With C# 8, reference types are not null be default. This is a big change, and a great feature. However, what about all the legacy code? Can old libraries be used with C# 8 applications, and can C# 7 applications make use of C# 8 libraries?

This article demonstrates how C# 8 allows mixing old and new assemblies. 

Vertical Slice Architecture, not Layers! 

Why Vertical Slice Architecture? Nobody wants to deal with a system that is hard to change and easy to introduce bugs because it's a spaghetti code mess of various technical concerns. Clean Architecture is popular because it separates concerns into many different layers. But why are we organizing code by layers? Does adding a new feature require you to modify files across multiple projects in your UI, business, and data access layers? Vertical Slice Architecture is about how you organize code and focus on features instead of technical layers will make your system easier to change.