Google announced the Android App Bundle AAB  in 2018 and it looked like a good idea - better than the APK we have all been used to. Now it has been announced that in August 2021 the APK will be phased out in favour of the AAB. andro

With .NET 5, direct support of WinRT has been removed from the C# language and CLR, including most of the functionality previously provided in System.Runtime.InteropServices. In some cases, C#/WinRT provides equivalent functionality. In other cases, functionality may no longer be supported. This article provides a migration guide for interop scenarios in C#/WinRT. 

So imagine you’ve bought the license for redistribution business edition for 10000 and that is only for 5 clients. But for unlimited clients the price is 35000 per year! Now we have about 27 clients and 5 client would not be enough and the price is a lot to swallow.  

This feature enables the following:

Over half of developers are happier in their roles since the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to work remotely. The overwhelming majority are satisfied with their employers and at least three quarters anticipate they will be able to continue to work from home in the future. 

- The OmniSharp server has been updated to Roslyn 2.3.0, which adds support for C# 7.1
- Update debugger to run itself on .NET Core 2.0-preview2 (target app can still use .NET Core 1.x).  

you can take a legacy application, touch none of its application code, but insert a Chromium-powered window that hosts add-on content. You could use that window for a documentation system, news content, or add-on features. 

 PM> install-package Microsoft.AspNet.Web.Optimization

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Text;
using System.Web.Optimization;
 
namespace MvcPluginMasterApp.Common.WebToolkit
{
    public class EmbeddedResourceTransform : IBundleTransform
    {
        private readonly IList<string> _resourceFiles;
        private readonly string _contentType;
        private readonly Assembly _assembly;
 
        public EmbeddedResourceTransform(IList<string> resourceFiles, string contentType, Assembly assembly)
        {
            _resourceFiles = resourceFiles;
            _contentType = contentType;
            _assembly = assembly;
        }
 
        public void Process(BundleContext context, BundleResponse response)
        {
            var result = new StringBuilder();
 
            foreach (var resource in _resourceFiles)
            {
                using (var stream = _assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(resource))
                {
                    if (stream == null)
                    {
                        throw new KeyNotFoundException(string.Format("Embedded resource key: '{0}' not found in the '{1}' assembly.", resource, _assembly.FullName));
                    }
 
                    using (var reader = new StreamReader(stream))
                    {
                        result.Append(reader.ReadToEnd());
                    }
                }
            }
 
            response.ContentType = _contentType;
            response.Content = result.ToString();
        }
    }
}

namespace MvcPluginMasterApp.Plugin1
{
    public class Plugin1 : IPlugin
    {
        public EfBootstrapper GetEfBootstrapper()
        {
            return null;
        }
 
        public MenuItem GetMenuItem(RequestContext requestContext)
        {
            return new MenuItem
            {
                Name = "Plugin 1",
                Url = new UrlHelper(requestContext).Action("Index", "Home", new { area = "NewsArea" })
            };
        }
 
        public void RegisterBundles(BundleCollection bundles)
        {
            var executingAssembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
            // Mostly the default namespace and assembly name are the same
            var assemblyNameSpace = executingAssembly.GetName().Name;
            var scriptsBundle = new Bundle("~/Plugin1/Scripts",
                new EmbeddedResourceTransform(new List<string>
                {
                    assemblyNameSpace + ".Scripts.test1.js"
                }, "application/javascript", executingAssembly));
            if (!HttpContext.Current.IsDebuggingEnabled)
            {
                scriptsBundle.Transforms.Add(new JsMinify());
            }
            bundles.Add(scriptsBundle);
            var cssBundle = new Bundle("~/Plugin1/Content",
                new EmbeddedResourceTransform(new List<string>
                {
                    assemblyNameSpace + ".Content.test1.css"
                }, "text/css", executingAssembly));
            if (!HttpContext.Current.IsDebuggingEnabled)
            {
                cssBundle.Transforms.Add(new CssMinify());
            }
            bundles.Add(cssBundle);
            BundleTable.EnableOptimizations = true;
        }
 
        public void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
        {
        }
 
        public void RegisterServices(IContainer container)
        {
        }
    }
}
 

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Routing;
 
namespace MvcPluginMasterApp.Common.WebToolkit
{
    public class EmbeddedResourceRouteHandler : IRouteHandler
    {
        private readonly Assembly _assembly;
        private readonly string _resourcePath;
        private readonly TimeSpan _cacheDuration;
 
        public EmbeddedResourceRouteHandler(Assembly assembly, string resourcePath, TimeSpan cacheDuration)
        {
            _assembly = assembly;
            _resourcePath = resourcePath;
            _cacheDuration = cacheDuration;
        }
 
        IHttpHandler IRouteHandler.GetHttpHandler(RequestContext requestContext)
        {
            return new EmbeddedResourceHttpHandler(requestContext.RouteData, _assembly, _resourcePath, _cacheDuration);
        }
    }
 
    public class EmbeddedResourceHttpHandler : IHttpHandler
    {
        private readonly RouteData _routeData;
        private readonly Assembly _assembly;
        private readonly string _resourcePath;
        private readonly TimeSpan _cacheDuration;
 
        public EmbeddedResourceHttpHandler(
            RouteData routeData, Assembly assembly, string resourcePath, TimeSpan cacheDuration)
        {
            _routeData = routeData;
            _assembly = assembly;
            _resourcePath = resourcePath;
            _cacheDuration = cacheDuration;
        }
 
        public bool IsReusable
        {
            get { return false; }
        }
 
        public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
        {
            var routeDataValues = _routeData.Values;
            var fileName = routeDataValues["file"].ToString();
            var fileExtension = routeDataValues["extension"].ToString();
 
            var manifestResourceName = string.Format("{0}.{1}.{2}", _resourcePath, fileName, fileExtension);
            var stream = _assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(manifestResourceName);
            if (stream == null)
            {
                throw new KeyNotFoundException(string.Format("Embedded resource key: '{0}' not found in the '{1}' assembly.", manifestResourceName, _assembly.FullName));
            }
 
            context.Response.Clear();
            context.Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream";
            cacheIt(context.Response, _cacheDuration);
            stream.CopyTo(context.Response.OutputStream);
        }
 
        private static void cacheIt(HttpResponse response, TimeSpan duration)
        {
            var cache = response.Cache;
 
            var maxAgeField = cache.GetType().GetField("_maxAge", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
            if (maxAgeField != null) maxAgeField.SetValue(cache, duration);
 
            cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.Public);
            cache.SetExpires(DateTime.Now.Add(duration));
            cache.SetMaxAge(duration);
            cache.AppendCacheExtension("must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate");
        }
    }
}

namespace MvcPluginMasterApp.Plugin1
{
    public class Plugin1 : IPlugin
    { 
        public void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
        {
            //todo: add custom routes.
 
            var assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
            // Mostly the default namespace and assembly name are the same
            var nameSpace = assembly.GetName().Name;
            var resourcePath = string.Format("{0}.Images", nameSpace);
 
            routes.Insert(0,
                new Route("NewsArea/Images/{file}.{extension}",
                    new RouteValueDictionary(new { }),
                    new RouteValueDictionary(new { extension = "png|jpg" }),
                    new EmbeddedResourceRouteHandler(assembly, resourcePath, cacheDuration: TimeSpan.FromDays(30))
                ));
        } 
    }
}

@{
    ViewBag.Title = "From Plugin 1";
}
@Styles.Render("~/Plugin1/Content")
 
<h2>@ViewBag.Message</h2>
 
<div class="row">
    Embedded image:
    <img src="@Url.Content("~/NewsArea/Images/chart.png")" alt="clock" />
</div>
 
@section scripts
{
    @Scripts.Render("~/Plugin1/Scripts")
}