RethinkDB is an open source NoSQL JSON database designed for web apps. Its main differentiator is that you can tell it to continuously push updated query results to applications in real time, rather than having your app poll for changes. 

The people from InfoQ released a free (mini)book about .NET Core. In this book, five authors talk about the current state of .NET Core 3.0 from multiple perspectives. Each author brings their experience and ideas on how different .NET Core 3.0 features are relevant to the .NET ecosystem, both present and future. 

Perhaps you’ve seen the term REST being thrown around lately and have been a little curious what it’s all about. If that’s the case, or you know a little about it but never used it, this article is for you. Today I’m going to give a small overview of what REST services are, and why it’s awesome. 

The Joel Test is great for software development shops and for programmers that are interested in quickly evaluating a company’s software development environment, but what about a Joel Test for actual programmers? 

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using (var transaction = new TransactionScope(TransactionScopeOption.Required,
 new TransactionOptions { IsolationLevel = IsolationLevel.ReadCommitted }))
{
    var database = new DatabaseContext();

    // DBC: BEGIN TRANSACTION

    var userA = database.Users.Find(1);
    var userB = database.Users.Find(2);
    userA.Name = "Admin";

    database.SaveChanges();

    userB.Age = 28;
    database.SaveChanges();


    // DBC: COMMIT TRANSACTION

    transaction.Complete();
}

With .NET 5 released in November, it’s a good time to talk about some of the many improvements in the networking stack. This includes improvements around HTTP, Sockets, networking-related security, and other networking primitives. In this post, I will highlight some of the more impactful and interesting changes in the release. 

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This article is about creating ASP.NET Core applications, using Visual Studio Code and .NET Core. After this article, you will be able to create applications, using Visual Studio Code in .NET Core