ASPNET Core has a lot of changes compared with the others versions of ASP.NET. One change I want to highlight is the new way to configure settings. With previous versions, this configuration was made by using the common file web.config, but this file simply doesn’t exist anymore in ASP.NET Core. Instead, a new easy way to declare and access to the settings is provided. Let’s take a look. 

• Jil and ServiceStack.Text, while performance oriented are not nearly mature as Newtonsoft.Json. ServiceStack also produces "invalid" json to gain some performance.
• Newtonsoft.Json is stable and performant, but it can be as 3x slower than DSL baked in serialization. 

- Reduce start up time by loading finished code first models from a persistent cache
- Fluent API to define indexes
- DbFunctions.Like() to enable writing LINQ queries that translate to LIKE in SQL
- Migrate.exe should support -script option
- EF6 does not work with primary key from sequence
- Update error numbers for SQL Azure Execution Strategy
- Bug: Retrying queries or SQL commands fails with “The SqlParameter is already contained by another SqlParameterCollection”
- Bug: Evaluation of DbQuery.ToString() frequently times out in the debugger

The next stop for .NET 7 is General Availability, one month out, as Microsoft today shipped .NET 7 Release Candidate 2.  

Now let’s take a look at what’s in store for TypeScript 4.0!

Variadic Tuple Types
Labeled Tuple Elements
Class Property Inference from Constructors
Short-Circuiting Assignment Operators
unknown on catch Clauses
Custom JSX Factories
Speed Improvements in build mode with --noEmitOnError
--incremental with --noEmit
Editor Improvements
  /** @deprecated */ Support
  Partial Editing Mode at Startup
  Smarter Auto-Imports
Breaking Changes 

This release contains some minor bug fixes and a couple of new features specifically targeted at enabling .NET Standard support for the ASP.NET Web API Client.  

Rider 2022.3: Support for .NET 7 SDK, the Latest From C#11, Major Performance Improvements, and More! 

As with every .NET release, Microsoft improves the performance of the runtime and guess what: This release is no exception to this. In this blog post, I want to go through some of the improvements made so far (.NET 8 preview 3). 

There's plenty of information on encrypting ASP.NET configuration settings in web.config files, but encrypting settings in a desktop application isn't as well documented. Here's what I came up with.