Today, the Entity Framework Core team announces the first preview release of EF Core 6.0. This release includes new attributes, built-in functions, and database-specific improvements to SQLite and SQL Server capabilities. 

Editor.js is a block-styled editor for rich media stories. It outputs clean data in JSON instead of heavy HTML-markup. And more important thing is that Editor.js is designed to be API extendable and pluggable.

Take a dive into this history of blockchain technology, a decentralized and distributed ledger. Hear how blockchain has evolved to where it is today and imagine what the future might hold. 

Finally, the backend runs on .NET Core runtime by default on macOS and Linux, instead of the Mono runtime. Moving to .NET Core runtime delivers noticeable performance improvements, a lower memory footprint, and multithreaded NuGet restore. 

Here’s a list of all the expected changes:

• Removing jQuery
• Dropping support for IE 10
• Custom SVG icon library
• Switching to Hugo from Jekyll
• Major Javascript updates
• Minor CSS and class updates and fixes 

I never thought ordering of relational static fields and properties in C# mattered. And, then, I started getting Null Reference Exceptions on a property I know was set to a static-instanc

XAML Islands enable .NET and native Win32 applications to host UWP XAML controls. You can enhance the experience and functionality of your existing desktop applications with the latest UI innovations previously only available for UWP apps.  

Azure Data Studio is a multi-database, cross-platform desktop environment for data professionals using the family of on-premises and cloud data platforms on Windows, MacOS, and Linux. To learn more, visit our GitHub.  

A Microsoft exec has warned that Internet Explorer is a ‘compatibility solution’ and should only be used selectively. Preaching to the choir here, and this is, we suspect, the very end of IE's long story for us.