Data fetching for React applications

Relay is a new framework from Facebook that provides data-fetching functionality for React applications. It was announced at React.js Conf (January 2015).

What is GraphQL? 

GraphQL is a data querying language designed to describe the complex, nested data dependencies of modern applications. It's been in production use in Facebook's native apps for several years. 

The ASP.NET team is proud to announce general availability of ASP.NET Core 2.0.  This release features compatibility with .NET Core 2.0, tooling support in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3, and the new Razor Pages user-interface design paradigm.  For a full list of updates, you can read the release notes.  The latest SDK and tools can be downloaded from https://dot.net/core. Read the .NET Core 2.0 release announcement for more information and watch the launch video on Channel 9.

Security Advisory Notices

CVE-2019-1077 Visual Studio Extension Auto Update Vulnerability

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Visual Studio Extension auto-update process improperly performs certain file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could delete files in arbitrary locations. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would require unprivileged access to a vulnerable system. The security update addresses the vulnerability by securing locations the Visual Studio Extension auto-update performs file operations in.

CVE-2019-1075 ASP.NET Core Spoofing Vulnerability

A spoofing vulnerability exists in ASP.NET Core that could lead to an open redirect. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could redirect a targeted user to a malicious website. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker could send a link that has a specially crafted URL and convince the user to click the link.

The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how ASP.NET Core parses URLs. Details can be found in the .NET Core release notes.

CVE-2019-1113 WorkflowDesigner XOML deserialization allows code execution

A XOML file referencing certain types could cause random code to be executed when the XOML file is opened in Visual Studio. There is now a restriction on what types are allowed to be used in XOML files. If a XOML file containing one of the newly unauthorized types is opened, a message is displayed explaining that the type is unauthorized.

For further information, please refer to https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4512190/remote-code-execution-vulnerability-if-types-are-specified-in-xoml.

How to keep your .Net Core packages up to date automatically with GitHub 

Git Tutorial - 1 - How to Download and Install Git
Git Tutorial - 2 - Config Our Username and Email
Git Tutorial - 3 - Creating Our First Repository
Git Tutorial - 4 - Commit
Git Tutorial - 5 - Adding Files and the Commit Log
Git Tutorial - 6 - Git Workflow
Git Tutorial - 7 - How to Edit Files
Git Tutorial - 8 - Viewing the Changes That You Made
Git Tutorial - 9 - Comparing the Staging Area with the Repository
Git Tutorial - 10 - How to Delete Files
Git Tutorial - 11 - How to Move and Rename Files
Git Tutorial - 12 - Working with an Actual Website
Git Tutorial - 13 - How to Commit Directly to the Repository
Git Tutorial - 14 - Checkout this video (Git it?)
Git Tutorial - 15 - Unstage Files
Git Tutorial - 16 - Getting Old Versions from the Repository
Git Tutorial - 17 - GitHub
Git Tutorial - 18 - Pushing to a GitHub Repository
Git Tutorial - 19 - gitignore and GitHub Desktop
Git Tutorial - 20 - Committing Changes to GitHub
Git Tutorial - 21 - Branches
Git Tutorial - 22 - GitHub Watch Star and Fork
Git Tutorial - 23 - GitHub Issues and Labels
Git Tutorial - 24 - GitHub Wiki
Git Tutorial - 25 - GitHub Organizations and Teams 

namespace EmberJS02.Models
{
    public class User
    {
        public int Id { set; get; }
        public string UserName { set; get; }
        public string Email { set; get; }
    }
}

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Web.Http;
using EmberJS02.Models;
 
namespace EmberJS02.Controllers
{
    public class UsersController : ApiController
    {
        // GET api/<controller>
        public IEnumerable<User> Get()
        {
            return UsersDataSource.UsersList;
        }
    }
}

using System;
using System.Web.Http;
using System.Web.Routing;
 
namespace EmberJS02
{
    public class Global : System.Web.HttpApplication
    { 
        protected void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            RouteTable.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
               name: "DefaultApi",
               routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
               defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
               );
        }
    }
}

 PM> Install-Package EmberJS

App = Ember.Application.create();
App.IndexRoute = Ember.Route.extend({
    setupController:function(controller) {
        controller.set('content', ['red', 'yellow', 'blue']);
    }
});

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <title></title>
    <script src="Scripts/jquery-2.1.1.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="Scripts/handlebars.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="Scripts/ember.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="Scripts/app.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
    <script type="text/x-handlebars" data-template-name="application">
        <h1>Header</h1>
        {{outlet}}
    </script>
    <script type="text/x-handlebars" data-template-name="index">
        Hello,
        <strong>Welcome to Ember.js</strong>!
        <ul>
            {{#each item in content}}
            <li>
                {{item}}
            </li>
            {{/each}}
        </ul>
    </script>
</body>
</html>

App.Router.map(function() {
    this.resource('about');
});

<script type="text/x-handlebars" data-template-name="about">
    <h2>Our about page</h2>
</script>

<script type="text/x-handlebars" data-template-name="application">
    <h1>Ember Demo App</h1>
    <ul class="nav">
        <li>{{#linkTo 'index'}}Home{{/linkTo}}</li>
        <li>{{#linkTo 'about'}}About{{/linkTo}}</li>
    </ul>
    {{outlet}}
</script>

App.Router.map(function() {
    this.resource('about');
    this.resource('users');
});

App.UsersLink = Ember.Object.extend({});
App.UsersLink.reopenClass({
    findAll: function () {
        var users = [];
        $.getJSON('/api/users').then(function(response) {
            response.forEach(function(item) {
                users.pushObject(App.UsersLink.create(item));
            });
        });
        return users;
    }
});

App.UsersRoute = Ember.Route.extend({
    model: function() {
        return App.UsersLink.findAll();
    }
});
 
App.UsersController = Ember.ObjectController.extend({
    customHeader : 'Our Users List'
});

<script type="text/x-handlebars" data-template-name="users">
    <h2>{{customHeader}}</h2>
    <ul>
        {{#each item in model}}
        <li>
            {{item.Id}}-{{item.UserName}} ({{item.Email}})
        </li>
        {{/each}}
    </ul>
</script>

.NotSupportedException: The method 'Max' is not supported

Creator of Python, Guido van Rossum, has joined Microsoft as a Distinguished Engineer in the Developer Division. His stated aim is to make Python better. We can't wait to find out what that results in.