Announcing TypeScript 3.7 Beta 

// Before
if (foo && foo.bar && foo.bar.baz) {
    // ...
}

// After-ish
if (foo?.bar?.baz) {
    // ...
}

Announcing: Rapid XAML Toolkit release 0.10 

• New interaction utilities. Quickly set user-select with the new utilities and Sass map.
• New Reboot style for pointer cursors. We now include a role="button" selector in Reboot to set cursor: pointer on non-<button> element buttons.
• Examples are now downloadable. We’ve added a script to zip up and offer all our Examples as their own download from the docs.
• Saved ~5% from the compressed minified JS builds. 

.NET 8 Preview 7 is now available. We’re already at the final preview release for .NET 8 and will now shift to release candidates. Almost all new features for the release are in their final shape. System.Text.Json and codegen have the biggest changes in this build. You’ll want to take a look at those. Now is great time to pick up and test .NET 8 if you haven’t yet.  

Angular 2 is getting a lot of hype and attention, but the reality is that it is still in alpha and changes quite rapidly. It is not intended at all to be used in production yet. So, really, you can’t and shouldn’t start your company’s next big project using it. 

Vertical Slice Architecture Project Setup From Scratch - YouTube 

Angular 4 Tutorial for Beginners: Learn Angular 4 from Scratch.

Today, we’re releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 3. It contains a set of new features and performance improvements. We’re continuing to work on the bigger features that will define the 5.0 release. 

Announcing Entity Framework Core EF Core 5.0 Preview 7