An Early Look at Angular 8: Get Ready for Opt-In IVY Preview 

Partial views in ASP.NET MVC allow you to reuse and customise components to act like user controls. They consist of both code and markup. They are an idea that is easy to grasp but they have great potential for the more adventurous developer who is prepared to experiment. Dino Esposito explains 

An independent group of volunteers within Microsoft has successfully open sourced and forked Windows Live Writer. The fork is called Open Live Writer (also known as OLW) and it is part of the .NET Foundation and managed by this group of volunteers.  

This Friday we published the Unity engine and editor C# source code on GitHub, under a reference-only license. 

In part 1 Tim provides an overview of extensions and talks about some of the enhancements in Visual Studio 2015 for writing extensions. He creates a very simple extension and then gives a quick overview of an extension he is writing.

Entity Framework half-heartedly supported Domain-Driven Design patterns. But the new-from-scratch EF Core has brought new hope for developers to map your well-designed domain classes to a database, reducing the cases where a separate data model is needed. EF Core 2.1 is very DDD friendly, even supporting things like fully encapsulated collections, backing fields and the return of support for value objects. In this session, we'll review some well-designed aggregates and explore how far EF Core 2.1 goes to act as the mapper between your domain classes and your data store. 

Introducing the New KeyValuePipe in Angular

<div *ngFor="let row of rows | keyvalue">
{{ row | json }}
{{row.key}}: {{row.value}}
</div>

.NET applications however rely on the ciphers provided by the OS, and the only way to get new ciphers into the OS is through a patch from Microsoft. Unsupported versions of Windows typically do not receive these patches, so over time you can expect an increasing number of websites to stop working with .NET applications. 

“I’ve written before about how React is the new default frontend framework, and how I don’t think most people using React on a regular basis realize quite how much it’s fallen behind.” High level thoughts about the React ‘bubble’ and some reasons to look beyond it, including a round up of some of the alternative options. 

The data validated our hypothesis — of the average 9.3 million daily visits to Stack Overflow, we get fewer than 88,000 clicks to the navigation or top bar (this includes inbox, rep, profile, and search.) If you divided each individual click per visit, that’s fewer than 1% of visits navigating anywhere (and far fewer if you counted multiple clicks per visit). Our navigation is not being used by 99% of our users.