These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.7.1:

• This release includes a fix that reduces memory usage and GC pressure during solution load.

Microsoft Security Advisory for .NET Core Denial Of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2018-0765

Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in .NET Core and .NET native version 2.0. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applications to remove this vulnerability.

Microsoft is aware of a denial of service vulnerability that exists when .NET Framework and .NET Core improperly process XML documents. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause a denial of service against a .NET Framework, .NET Core, or .NET native application.

The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how .NET Framework, .NET Core, and .NET native applications handle XML document processing.

If your application is an ASP.NET Core application, developers are also advised to update to ASP.NET Core 2.0.8. 

In this series I answer various .NET questions. Some of them are asked during interviews, some of them I see on the internet, some of them are completely made up. The goal is to provide short answer with links to references if needed. This is by no means a .NET tutorial or experts reference, this is just a bunch of useful answers to refresh your knowledge. 

C# vNext Features with Status
This page contains the list of features the C# team is currently working on and their progress status.
When a feature status is "Merged" this means that the work to implement the feature is complete and available in the next preview version. 

 The Front-End Performance Checklist is an exhaustive list of elements you should check or at least be aware of, as a Front-End developer and apply to your project (personal and professional). 

Did you know that DotVVM can be used to incrementally modernize old ASP.NET Web Forms applications and lift them to .NET Core? It is much easier than doing a full rewrite, and the application can be deployed at any time during the entire process.

• Install DotVVM NuGet package in your Web Forms site
• Create a DotVVM master page using the same CSS
• Start converting ASPX pages to DotHTML syntax, one at a time
• When all the Web Forms pages are gone, change your CSPROJ to use .NET Core 

PersianTools.js is a standalone, library-agnostic JavaScript that enables some of the Persian features for use in the JavaScript. 

I always love talking to Julie! She first spends some time discussing some of the new things in Entity Framework 7 and when one should consider using (and more importantly not using) the new bits. She also gets into her experience working with Aurelia and node.js. Enjoy! 

Keeping up with JavaScript frameworks can be a challenge. There are a lot of them, and seemingly another one every month. How do you know which ones might be right for your project? What are their strengths and weaknesses? How do you get started?