We just published eShopSupport, a .NET sample app that brings AI into the world of eShop. Includes examples of summarisation, classification, semantic search, and a Q&A bot (including local models). It’s the demo app we used in talks such as

Oracle is seeking as much as $9.3 billion in damages in a long-running copyright lawsuit against Google over its use of Java in Android, court filings show. Oracle sued Google six years ago, claiming the search giant needs a license to use parts of the Java platform in Google's market-leading mobile OS. 

Project Bedrock

Project bedrock is about further decoupling the components of Kestrel so that we can use it as the foundation for our non-http networking stack. 

• Team Explorer - Changes: panel not sizing to the Team Explorer window.
• Visual Studio 2017 SQL Server Object Explorer server list not persisting .
• intellisense problems with linux-x64 mode.
• Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.Parameter name: index.
• Visual Studio 2017 UNDO does not work/stops working (reported AGAIN!!!!).
• Intellisense not working for files created under WSL.
• Intellisense error: C++11 static constexpr member initialization causes "member may not be initialized".
• VS doesn't restore windows position when switching in/out of debug.
• Third party toolbox items are reloaded every time VS2019 Preview 2.2 is started.
• 'Set as StartUp Project' crashes the IDE after updating to VS2019 Preview Release 3.
• Visual Studio 2019 building Visual Studio 2017 C++ projects fail.
• Fixed Toolbox refresh issue.
• Toolbox controls are making vssettings file too big.
• SSDT: Fix for Login failed errors when performing a New Data comparison function .
• SSDT: Fix for Source is Unavailable error when performing Schema Compare .
• SSDT: Fix for Schema Compare Generate Script does not generate script .
• SSDT: Fix to improve performance of loading solutions with multiple projects.
• SSDT: Fix for SQL files not always being deleted when performing a Schema Compare between a database and a project and a delete table is executed subsequently.
• SSDT: Accessibility fixes to improve narration capabilities.
• SSDT: Replaced older sqlncli driver with new Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server. 

I’ve started looking at using MediatR for my domain events implementations. To that end, I created a quick sample project using ASP.NET Core 2.0. Overall things were pretty easy to get going. If you haven’t used MediatR before, or if you’re looking for a quick intro on how to set it up for ASP.NET Core, keep reading (if not, how did you get here? Was the title not clear?). 

Have you ever found a bug in your code and wanted to pause code execution to inspect the problem? If you are a developer, there’s a strong chance you have experienced or will experience this issue many, many times. While the short and sweet answer to this problem is to use a breakpoint, the longer answer is that Visual Studio actually provides multiple kinds of breakpoints and methods that let you pause your code depending on the context! Based on the different scenarios you may experience while debugging, here are some of the various ways to pause your code and set or manage a breakpoint in Visual Studio 2017 

system design tutorials
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This series of videos covers of the the most important concepts related to system design, with a focus on practical system design knowledge for interviews. These system design videos cover topics like vertical vs horizontal scaling, load balancers, database design and scaling, caching, back of the envelope math for estimating capacity requirements for a system, an introduction to distributed systems, and some system design interview style questions walking through a full design implementation

 

Which Queries Should You Cache in the Application? 

There is always room for improving one’s coding ability, and SOLID design principles offer one way to see marked improvements in final output. With SOLID Principles Succinctly, author Gaurav Kumar Arora will instruct you in how to use SOLID principles to take your programming skills to the next level.