Redis, the popular in-memory data store, is switching away from the open source three-clause BSD license. Instead, in a move that is clearly aimed to prevent the large cloud providers from offering free alternatives to Redis’ own hosted services, Redis will now be dual-licensed under the Redis Source Available License (RSALv2) and Server Side Public License (SSPLv1). Under this new license, cloud service providers hosting Redis will need to enter into a commercial agreement with Redis. The first company to do so is Microsoft.

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! 

.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.  

Azure Container Instances a simple way to run a container in Azure, without having to manage any virtual machines.

Brady Gaster returns in this follow up to the previous episode on Worker services. This time Brady will show us how to deploy our worker service to Azure Container Instances

• [00:58] - Creating a new container instance
• [03:08] - Exploring the Docker tools in Visual Studio Code
• [04:30] - Reviewing the deployed container instance
• [05:50] - Exploring the tools for Kubernetes in Visual Studio Code
• [09:57] - Kubernetes Namespaces and Deployments
• [12:10] - .NET Architecture Guides 

Team Explorer support for TLSv1.2

• We have updated the Git and the Git Credential Manager components that ship in Visual Studio.
• The optional Git for Windows component has also been updated.
• This update allows Git to connect to services that have deprecated support for TLSv1 and TLSv1.1 in favor of TLSv1.2.

Issues Fixed in this Release

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in this release:

• Projects targeting .NET Core 2.1 or newer are not supported by Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5.
• Fixed issue where installation of the SDK for .NET Core 2.1 or newer would cause the option to create ASP.NET Core 2.0 Web applications to disappear. 

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.

- .NET Core
- Node.js
- Docker
- Elasticsearch: A distributed and open source search engine based on Lucene. A blazing fast NoSQL database with replication capabilities, it is the most widely known component of the ELK stack, together with Kibana (for reporting and visualizations), Logstash (for data import) and Beats (for data shipping). Even Azure Search uses it behind the covers. Free but some tools are paid. Get it from http://elastic.co.
- ECMAScript 2015
- HTML5
- Kafka
- TypeScript
- MongoDB
- Git
- Nginx
- Octopus Deploy
- Azure
- Amazon Web Services
- Linux
- Visual Studio Code
- Xamarin
- Google Analytics
- SQL Server 2016
- Let’s Encrypt
- TensorFlow
- GitLab
- Redis 

These are some key features of the framework itself:

When we started the Google Code project hosting service in 2006, the world of project hosting was limited. We were worried about reliability and stagnation, so we took action by giving the open source community another option to choose from. Since then, we’ve seen a wide variety of better project hosting services such as GitHub and Bitbucket bloom. Many projects moved away from Google Code to those other systems. To meet developers where they are, we ourselves migrated nearly a thousand of our own open source projects from Google Code to GitHub.