Microsoft's New Free SQL Server 2019 Training Materials — SQL Server 2019 Ground to Cloud covers, unsurprisingly, how to get started with SQL Server whether on-prem or on Azure. There’s also a 219 page PDF you can download and work through. 

A MSBuild-integrated library/tool to expose entrypoints in .NET assemblies to the platform invocation system or short PInvoke. It allows you to build .NET libraries that can be called from any development platform that supports PInvoke, including C++, C, Rust, Delphi, Python and so on... 

A self-contained app is a great way to share your application as all components, runtime, and framework are included with the application. All you have to provide is the application .exe file without worrying about the presence of framework or runtime installation status on other machines. 

• The solution name in title bar is truncated.
• Missing interpolation in warning when packaging Cloud Service projects.
• Visual Studio will no longer show an error message on startup after you reset or import settings in certain cases.
• Accessibility issues in Cloud Service projects where wrong inputs in the diagnostics configuration window are not read by screen readers have been fixed. 

A new take on the age-old question: Should you rewrite your application from scratch, or is that “the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make”? Turns out there are more than two options for dealing with a mature codebase. 

A new feature recently introduced into Github, Github Actions allow you to automate your workflow by letting Github take care of a number of processes which can be triggered by a variety of events on the platform, be it pushing code, making a release or creat 

SQL Server 2019 preview builds on previous releases to grow SQL Server as a platform that gives you choices of development languages, data types, on-premises or cloud, and operating systems. This article summarizes what is new for SQL Server 2019. 

Angular 6 is out! The most outstanding changes are in its CLI and how services get injected. If you are looking to write your very first Angular 6 app—or Angular/Firebase app—in this tutorial, we’ll go over the basic steps of initial setup and create a small diary app. 

In this webinar, we will show the benefits of using DevExpress Object-Relational Mapping Library - the eXpress Persistent Objects - with .NET Core 2. The presentation will quickly cover the basics for those new to DevExpress products, and will show how you can use our ORM to manage data in ASP.NET Core or Xamarin apps.