Tap is a Javascript library for easy unified handling of user interactions such as mouse, touch and pointer events.

• No need to detect what kind of events are supported, Tap handles this for you
• Small distribution size of 1Kb
• Use fastest event types supported (majority of browsers has ~300ms delay between touch/pointer events and click). Every millisecond does really matter!

Installing And Using .NET 4.7.x, .NET Core 2.0, And C# 7.x With VS 2017 

The ASP.NET team is proud to announce general availability of ASP.NET Core 2.0.  This release features compatibility with .NET Core 2.0, tooling support in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3, and the new Razor Pages user-interface design paradigm.  For a full list of updates, you can read the release notes.  The latest SDK and tools can be downloaded from https://dot.net/core. Read the .NET Core 2.0 release announcement for more information and watch the launch video on Channel 9.

Missing Features in Entity Framework Core
Here’s a brief summary of some of the features that were present in previous versions of Entity Framework (6.x) and were excluded (or are not yet implemented) in Entity Framework Core 2.0: 

Ultimate Javascript Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) and JSON Web Token (JWT) Implementation for .NET and .NET Core  

I don't know how other shops are handling IS4 clients, but using Duende IdentityServer will immediately put us in the Enterprise tier at $12,000 / year, putting our total cost at over $20k / year. 

Ready to get started with Visual Studio 2017? This is your course! Join the experts and get the details, from installation to debugging, in this practical Visual Studio 2017 deep dive.

See how to download and install Visual Studio in standalone and networked environments, along with some of the configuration options, such as choosing your workloads (types of apps or services, languages, and platforms), customizing the installation, and installing language packs. Then, take a tour of the Visual Studio IDE, including all the basics you need to get started with your development projects. Finally, explore debugging in Visual Studio, and learn how to use its features to investigate problems in your code.

• Template pages using Angular4 and TypeScript
  
• RESTful API Backend using ASP.NET Core MVC Web API
  
• Database using Entity Framework Core
  
• Authentication based on OpenID Connect
  
• API Documentation using Swagger
  
• Webpack2 for managing client-side libraries
  
• Theming using Bootstrap 
  

Silver is a free implementation of Apple's Swift programming language.

With Silver, you can use Swift to write code directly against the .NET, Java, Android and Cocoa APIs. And you can also share a lot of non-UI code between platforms.