Come to hear the future of Visual Studio. This session will illustrate how Visual Studio is evolving demo by demo. We’ll show you the latest capabilities to enable any developer to build any apps. We’ll provide a preview of the streamlined acquisition experience for the next release of Visual Studio. You will see the cutting edge features we are working on to bring your productivity to the next level. We’ll even provide a back stage peek into how we’re using your feedback to continuously improve Visual Studio.
 

Today, we are happy to announce the long-awaited release of Blazorise 1.0. In this post, we're covering many new Blazorise features that will make your app development easier to build and use, along with some of the API changes required to get you started.  

This is the first major-version release we’ve had in about three years (Autofac 4.0 was released in August 2016). There are some breaking changes and new features you should know about as you decide your upgrade strategy. Hopefully this will help you navigate those waters. 

Here are a couple of the most relevant improvements you may want to verify:

• Work on the EF Core in-memory provider was finished and most query features should now be working (the majority of it went into RC1)
• EF Core’s compilation performance was improved significantly for complex queries 

Over the last few updates to Visual Studio 2017, we’ve been hard at work adding new features to boost your productivity while you’re writing code. Many of these are the result of your direct feedback coming from the UserVoice requests, Developer Community tickets, and direct feedback we’ve encountered while talking to developers like you. 

What’s new?

The following new features are available for preview in this release:

• URL Rewriting middleware
• Response caching middleware
• Response compression middleware
• WebListener server
• View Components as Tag Helpers
• Middleware as MVC filters
• Cookie-based TempData provider
• View compilation
• Azure App Service logging provider
• Azure Key Vault configuration provider
• Redis and Azure Storage Data Protection Key Repositories 

An Introduction to .NET MAUI For Mobile Development

.NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) is a cross-platform framework for creating native mobile and desktop apps with C# and XAML.
.NET MAUI is open-source and is the evolution of Xamarin.Forms, extended from mobile to desktop scenarios, with UI controls rebuilt from the ground up for performance and extensibility. If you've previously used Xamarin.Forms to build cross-platform user interfaces, you'll notice many similarities with .NET MAUI. However, there are also some differences. Using .NET MAUI, you can create multi-platform apps using a single project, but you can add platform-specific source code and resources if necessary. One of the key aims of .NET MAUI is to enable you to implement as much of your app logic and UI layout as possible in a single code-base.

0:00 - Setup Visual Studio and MAUI Project
00:16:25 - Create MAUI Pages with C#
00:27:42 - Create MAUI Pages with XAML
00:32:28 - Explore MAUI Layouts
00:39:38 - Static Shared Resources
00:44:36 - Platform Specific Values
00:50:11 - Page Navigation  

Angular CLI 1.1 is out and here are some notable new features:

• outputs smaller and faster bundles by default,
• now comes with a new welcome screen when creating a new application,
• has better support for serving with a different public URL, and
• now supports fixing generated code according to your linting preferences, e.g. use double-quotes instead of single quotes for strings.

Along with over 50 fixes!