REST APIs have become a common way to establish an interface between web back-ends and front-ends, and between different web services. The simplicity of this kind of interface, and the ubiquitous support of the HTTP and HTTPS protocols across different networks and frameworks, makes it an easy choice when considering interoperability issues. 

For decades, passwords have been the common backbone (headache) of authentication and are well known to lack in security while being frustrating and difficult to use. As we continue to see daily data breaches, the reality of moving away from weak static credentials and killing the password is upon us. Join this session to learn how FIDO2 and WebAuthn open authentication standards, in conjunction with YubiKeys, are solving the elimination of passwords at scale. Hear how organizations like Microsoft have implemented these standards for a true passwordless experience and find out how your organization can follow suit. You'll gain a greater understanding of how to achieve a modern and flexible security architecture through the use of FIDO open standards and hardware authenticators. 

In the recent interview with Scott Hanselman, Roberta Arcoverde, Head of Engineering at Stack Overflow, revealed the story about the architecture of Stack Overflow. They handle more than 6000 requests per second, 2 billion page views per month, and they manage to render a page in about 12 milliseconds. We imagine they use a microservice solution running in the Cloud with Kubernetes. 

releasing .NET Core 3.1.14 and .NET Core 2.1.27 April updates. These updates contains reliability and other non-security improvements. 

Columnstore indexes were first introduced in SQL Server 2012. They are a new way to store the data from a table that improves the performance of certain query types by at least ten times. They are especially helpful with fact tables in data warehouses. 

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.9.2:

• MFC EXE (binary) size is 5 times bigger in VS 15.8 (_MSC_VER = 1915).
• Key 'OPENSSH' is not supported.
• Windows magnifier can no longer track keyboad cursor.
• Analysis fails with immediately-invoked lamba in while loop.
• Xamarin iOS designer not working with 15.9 and Xamarin.iOS 12.2.1.10.
• We improved the reliability of incremental linking for large C++ projects.
• LNK2001 "unresolved external symbol" errors for certain vector deleting destructors will now be resolved.
• Compiler execution time has been improved for code that makes heavy use of chained, inline functions involving lambdas or local classes as parameter or return types. 

Come learn the top 7 reasons to use Visual Studio 2017 if you are a C++ developer. Whether you are using the product and are looking to upgrade, or you never used it before but you are considering it now, join us to discover how Visual Studio 2017 raises the bar in terms of C++ productivity. From C++ standards conformance to coding productivity, cross-platform development for Windows, Linux, Android, and iOS and CMake support, these are only a few of the topics we discuss in this demo-packed session. 

.NET Core 3.1.10 - November 10, 2020

The .NET 3.1.10 and .NET SDK 3.1.110 releases are available for download. The latest 3.1 release is always listed at .NET 3.1 Releases.

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This article dives into the mock questions I would ask, along with responses that are my personal best guess to the answers. Could my answers not reflect actual opinions shared by the team at Microsoft? Sure, but I'm hoping folks from the .NET team can jump in to correct me if I am way off base.

This is a rather interesting time for .NET – what's being done shapes the future of .NET for the next decade. Let's ask the honest questions and hopefully all of us will understand the new .NET ecosystem a little better.