Preview 3 of .NET 8 includes a new project templates to create an API with a TODO service instead of the weather forecast . Looking into the generated code of this template, there are a lot more changes going on such as a slim builder and using a JSON source generator which helps when using AOT to create native .NET binaries. This article looks into the changes coming. 

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<configuration>
<configSections>
</configSections>
<connectionStrings>
<clear/>
<add name="Context" connectionString="Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=test;Integrated Security = true" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>
</connectionStrings>
<system.web>
<compilation debug="true"/></system.web>
</configuration>

• Linux support for tier-1, mission-critical workloads – SQL Server 2017 support for Linux includes the same high availability solutions on Linux as Windows Server, including Always On availability groups integrated with Linux native clustering solutions like Pacemaker.
• Graph data processing in SQL Server – With the graph data features available in SQL Server 2017and Azure SQL Database, customers can create nodes and edges, and discover complex and many-to-many relationships.
• Adaptive query processing – Adaptive query processing is a family of features in SQL Server 2017 that automatically keeps database queries running as efficiently as possible without requiring additional tuning from database administrators. In addition to the capability to adjust batch mode memory grants, the feature set includes batch mode adaptive joins and interleaved execution capabilities.
• Python integration for advanced analytics – Microsoft Machine Learning Services now brings you the ability to run in-database analytics using Python or R in a parallelized and scalable way. The ability to run advanced analytics in your operational store without ETL means faster time to insights for customers while easy deployment and rich extensibility make it fast to get up and running on the right model. 

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.8.8:

• /DEBUG:FASTLINK no debug info for STL types included via PCH.
• Bad codegen seen in 15.8 RTW compiler.
• Heap corruption in stack unwinding when inlining function.
• Linker consumes 6 GB of memory for specific test case. 

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.8.3:

• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8.2 contained a pre-release build of .NET Core SDK 2.1.401 that is incompatible with Visual Studio. We have corrected this issue with Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8.3.
• VSCppUnit test case creation failure.
• Python IntelliSense not working on Python 2.7.
• XAML designer causing Visual Studio to close unexpectedly. 

 Design patterns represent the best practices used by experienced object-oriented software developers. Design patterns are solutions to general problems that software developers faced during software development. These solutions were obtained by trial and error by numerous software developers over quite a substantial period of time.