Drag and resize, minimize, maximize windows. Open applications from desktop icons or start menu. Minesweeper, Internet Explorer, My Computer, Notepad, Winamp, Paint Power off menu.
- Terminal for PowerShell, CMD, WSL or custom shells
- Built-in support for SSH and Mosh connections
- Supports tabs and multiple windows
Object Exporter creates serializations of
in memory objects from your various debugging windows. Currently
supported output formats are: CSharp Object Initialization Code, JSON
and XML.
Windows Terminal is a new, modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL.
This marks the first time that the Linux kernel will be included as a component in Windows.
The kernel provided for WSL2 will be fully open source!
You can download and get started with .NET Core 2.2, on Windows, macOS, and Linux:
We can now run ASP.NET Core applications as Windows services with minimal effort. This blog post introduces how this process is done.
ReactXP is a new Library by Microsoft for building cross platform apps that run on iOS, Android, Windows, and the web.
Results and Impact
- Average Latency improved from 350ms to less than 250ms.
- CPU during peak time was [60–40%]. This dropped to [15–25%].
- AWS Cost Reduction by replacing Windows with Linux servers [by 45%]
- Apache benchmarking [89 vs. 57 req/s]: .NET Core — 89.68 requests / second. .NET Framework on Windows — 57.21 requests/second
- JMeter [Throughput — 142.9 vs. 60.5 per second]: .NET Core Solution: Hit 1000 requests on http://XXXX.redbus.pe/ , Throughput was 142.9/Sec. NET Framework on Windows: Hit 1000 requests on http://XXXX.redbus.pe/, Throughput was 60.5/Sec.
- Blazemeter [90% response time — 417ms vs. 1.09s]: .NET Core Solution: 90% Response time was 417ms. .NET Framework on Windows: 90% Response time was 1.09s.
As a refresher, the Windows code base is approximately 3.5M files and,
when checked in to a Git repo, results in a repo of about 300GB .
