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The new sha1(X) function computes the SHA1 hash of the input X, or NULL if X is NULL, while the sha1_query(Y) function evalutes all queries in the SQL statements of Y and returns a hash of their results. 

State / Direction of C# as a High-Performance Language (Roslyn GitHub Issue #10378) 

Caching can help improve the performance of an ASP.NET Core application. Distributed caching is helpful when working with an ASP.NET application that’s deployed to a server farm or scalable cloud environment. Microsoft documentation contains examples of doing this with SQL Server or Redis, but in this post,I’ll show you an alternative. 

For an application, logging is very important to keep track of that application and keep it error-free. In .NET Core, we don't need any third party logging; instead, we can use built-in logging whenever we want. This is very efficient in terms of code and performance.

Let’s start. Create a new .NET Core application and name it. 

Go Live

This release is supported in production and you can call Microsoft support with issues. 

jQuery 3.7.0 is now available! This release has it all: bug fixes, a new method, and a performance improvement! We even dropped our longtime selector engine: Sizzle. Or, I should say, we moved it into jQuery. 

The next major release of Angular is bringing a unified method for injecting dependencies into a directive.