As React celebrates its 11th anniversary in 2024, it’s worth looking ahead to the exciting developments in the React ecosystem. In this blog, we’ll explore various aspects of the ecosystem, building on what was happening in 2023 and what you can expect in the coming year. 

Creates a parallax backgrounds effect for sections by snapping to them on mouse scroll.Ideal for one page sites. Easy to configure and setup.  Demo

.NET Conf: Focus on Windows is a free, one-day livestream event that features speakers from the community and Microsoft teams working on Windows desktop apps and making them fantastic on the latest .NET 5. Learn why and how to upgrade WPF and Windows Forms apps to .NET 5, see Visual Studio tooling improvements, learn how to leverage cloud services from your client apps, and a whole lot more. You'll also see what the future of native device development with .NET will look like in .NET 6.  

Preview: The SQLite Llibrary as a .NET assembly
The latest pre-release of SQLitePCLRaw contains a new bundle package called SQLitePCLRaw.bundle_cil. This package is like SQLitePCLRaw's other "bundle" packages except that it involves no P/Invoke and no platform-specific shared libraries. Instead, bundle_cil provides the SQLite library as a pure .NET assembly which was compiled by Llama. 

C:\Program Files\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET Web Pages\v2.0\Assemblies
C:\Program Files\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET MVC 4\Assemblies

{E53F8FEA-EAE0-44A6-8774-FFD645390401}

{E3E379DF-F4C6-4180-9B81-6769533ABE47}

System.Web.Mvc, Version=3.0.0.0
System.Web.WebPages, Version=1.0.0.0
System.Web.Helpers, Version=1.0.0.0
System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=1.0.0.0

System.Web.Mvc, Version=4.0.0.0
System.Web.WebPages, Version=2.0.0.0
System.Web.Helpers, Version=2.0.0.0
System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=2.0.0.0

C:\Program Files\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET Web Pages\v1.0\Assemblies
C:\Program Files\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET MVC 3\Assemblies

C:\Program Files\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET Web Pages\v2.0\Assemblies
C:\Program Files\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET MVC 4\Assemblies

<appSettings>
  <add key="webpages:Version" value="2.0.0.0" />
  <add key="PreserveLoginUrl" value="true" />
</appSettings>

<configuration>
  <!--... elements deleted for clarity ...-->
 
  <runtime>
    <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
      <dependentAssembly>
        <assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Helpers" 
             publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" />
        <bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0" newVersion="2.0.0.0"/>
      </dependentAssembly>
      <dependentAssembly>
        <assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Mvc" 
             publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" />
        <bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0-3.0.0.0" newVersion="4.0.0.0"/>
      </dependentAssembly>
      <dependentAssembly>
        <assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.WebPages" 
             publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" />
        <bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0" newVersion="2.0.0.0"/>
      </dependentAssembly>
    </assemblyBinding>
  </runtime>
</configuration>

    <pages>
      <namespaces>
        <add namespace="System.Web.Optimization" />
      </namespaces>
    </pages>

[ValidateAntiForgeryToken(Salt = "data123")]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Optimization;

namespace Common.WebToolkit
{
    /// <summary>
    /// A custom bundle orderer (IBundleOrderer) that will ensure bundles are 
    /// included in the order you register them.
    /// </summary>
    public class AsIsBundleOrderer : IBundleOrderer
    {
        public IEnumerable<FileInfo> OrderFiles(BundleContext context, IEnumerable<FileInfo> files)
        {
            return files;
        }
    }

    public static class BundleConfig
    {
        private static void addBundle(string virtualPath, bool isCss, params string[] files)
        {
            BundleTable.EnableOptimizations = true;

            var existing = BundleTable.Bundles.GetBundleFor(virtualPath);
            if (existing != null)
                return;

            var newBundle = isCss ? new Bundle(virtualPath, new CssMinify()) : new Bundle(virtualPath, new JsMinify());
            newBundle.Orderer = new AsIsBundleOrderer();

            foreach (var file in files)
                newBundle.Include(file);

            BundleTable.Bundles.Add(newBundle);
        }

        public static IHtmlString AddScripts(string virtualPath, params string[] files)
        {
            addBundle(virtualPath, false, files);
            return Scripts.Render(virtualPath);
        }

        public static IHtmlString AddStyles(string virtualPath, params string[] files)
        {
            addBundle(virtualPath, true, files);
            return Styles.Render(virtualPath);
        }

        public static IHtmlString AddScriptUrl(string virtualPath, params string[] files)
        {
            addBundle(virtualPath, false, files);
            return Scripts.Url(virtualPath);
        }

        public static IHtmlString AddStyleUrl(string virtualPath, params string[] files)
        {
            addBundle(virtualPath, true, files);
            return Styles.Url(virtualPath);
        }
    }
}

@using Common.WebToolkit

<link href="@BundleConfig.AddStyleUrl("~/Content/blueprint/print", "~/Content/blueprint/print.css")" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print"/>

@BundleConfig.AddScripts("~/Scripts/js",
                            "~/Scripts/jquery-1.8.0.min.js",
                            "~/Scripts/jquery.unobtrusive-ajax.min.js",
                            "~/Scripts/jquery.validate.min.js")

@BundleConfig.AddStyles("~/Content/css",
                            "~/Content/Site.css",
                            "~/Content/buttons.css")

http://site/Content/blueprint/print?v=hash

@BundleConfig.AddStyles("~/Content/noty/css",
                                "~/Content/noty/jquery.noty.css",
                                "~/Content/noty/noty_theme_default.css")

Today we’re happy to announce the availability of the release candidate (RC) of TypeScript 3.1. Our intent with the RC is to gather any and all feedback so that we can ensure our final release is as pleasant as possible. 

ASP.NET Core in .NET 8 is your complete solution for modern web development. It handles all of your web development needs from the frontend to the backend. You can build beautiful, richly interactive web experiences with Blazor, and high-performance backend APIs and services that are reliable and secure. ASP.NET Core in .NET 8 is perfect for building cloud-native apps, and great tooling in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code supercharges your productivity. With ASP.NET Core in .NET 8, every developer is a full stack developer! 

WebAssembly, or Wasm, is on its way to becoming the next big thing in software development, allowing us to develop more reusable code across programming stacks. It will also enable the deployment of smaller packages more securely. This talk will focus on the view of a .NET developer using WebAssembly in their projects, whether client-side, server-side, or plugins.
Agenda
0:00:00 – Introduction
0:01:44 – Presentation Start
0:04:36 – Wasm on the client
0:08:27 – Wasm on the server
0:11:51 – ASP.NET Core in Wasi
0:21:41 – Wasm in the cloud
0:32:38 – Wasm for plugins
0:36:07 – Wasm plugins samples
0:49:05 – .NET 8 and the future
0:55:08 – Who’s working on this?
1:03:13 – Outro