C# 11 is the next version of C# coming in .NET 7, and it is introducing a warning wave that issues a warning when a type is declared with all lower-case letters. This is being done so that in the future the language can begin moving away from conditional keywords and instead use full on keywords instead. The warning is alerting customers to types that may become keywords in future versions. 

Entity Framework 7 (EF7) Preview 5 has shipped with support for Table-per-Concrete type (TPC) mapping. This blog post will focus on TPC. There are several other enhancements included in Preview 5, such as:

• Support for AT TIME ZONE in SQL Server
• Updates to command and connection interception (#23087, #23085, #17261)
• Addition of the delete behavior attribute

Read the full list of EF7 Preview 5 enhancements. 

We are extremely excited to announce the general availability of EF Core 3.0and EF 6.3 on  nuget.org . 

What’s new in EF Core 3.0

Including major features, minor enhancements, and bug fixes, EF Core 3.0 contains more than 600 product improvements. Here are some of the most important ones:

•  LINQ overhaul
•  Restricted client evaluation
•  Single SQL statement per LINQ query
•  Cosmos DB support
•  C# 8.0 support (Asynchronous streams, Nullable reference types)
•  Interception of database operations
•  Reverse engineering of database views
•  Dependent entities sharing a table with principal are now optional

The referencesource repository contains sources from Microsoft .NET Reference Source that represent a subset of the .NET Framework. This subset contains similar functionality to the class libraries that are being developed in .NET Core. We intend to consult the referencesource repository as we develop .NET Core. It is also for the community to leverage to enable more scenarios for .NET developers. 

Microsoft is continuing its long deprecation of VBScript in its Internet Explorer 11 Web browser for security reasons.

XAML Standard is a specification that defines a standard XAML vocabulary. With that vocabulary, frameworks that support XAML Standard can share common XAML-based UI definitions. The goal is for the first version, XAML Standard 1.0, to be available later this year. 

What’s new?

Here’s a sampling of the great new features and improvements in ASP.NET Core for .NET 7:

• Servers and runtime
  • Rating limiting: Limit the rate of handled requests using flexible endpoint configuration and policies.
  • Output caching: Configure output caching to reduce to more efficiently handle request.
  • Request decompression: Accept requests with compressed content.
  • HTTP/3: Built-in support for HTTP/3, the latest HTTP version based on the new QUIC multiplexed transport protocol.
  • WebSockets over HTTP/2: Use WebSockets over HTTP/2 connections.
  • WebTransport (experimental): Create streams and data grams over HTTP/3 with experimental support for WebTransport.
• Minimal APIs
  • Endpoint filters: Use endpoint filters to run cross-cutting code before or after a route handler.
  • Typed results: Return strongly typed results from minimal APIs.
  • Route groups: Organize groups of endpoints with a common prefix
• gRPC
  • JSON transcoding: Expand the reach of your gRPC services by also exposing them as JSON-based APIs
  • OpenAPI with JSON transcoding (experimenal): Use experimental support for generating OpenAPI specs for your gRPC JSON transcoded services.
  • gRPC health checks: Report and check the health of gRPC server apps.
  • gRPC client AddCallCredentials : Create clients that send authorized requests using bearer tokens.
• SignalR
  • Client results: Return client results to the server in response to requests from the server.
• MVC
  • Nullable view and page models: Nullable page and view models are now supported to improve the experience when using null state checking.
• Blazor
  • Custom elements: Build standard HTML custom elements with Blazor to integrate Blazor components with any JavaScript-based app.
  • Handle location changing events: Intercept location changing events to create custom user experiences when navigating.
  • Bind after/get/set modifiers: Run async logic after data binding and independently control how data binding gets and sets the data.
  • Dynamic authentication requests: Create dynamic authentication requests at runtime with custom parameters to handle advanced authentication scenarios in Blazor WebAssembly apps.
  • Improved JavaScript interop on WebAssembly: Optimize JavaScript interop call when running on WebAssembly using the new [JSImport]/[JSExport] support.
  • WebAssembly SIMD & exception handling: Improve performance with .NET WebAssembly ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation using WebAssembly SIMD and exception handling support. 

 From the iPhone to the Apple Watch to even its product packaging, Apple pays extreme attention to detail when designing its products  

This is a guide on how to make requests to a protected resource using Client Credentials with the IdentityServer4.Contrib.HttpClientService nuget package. The library is actually an HttpClient service that makes it easy to make authenticated and resilient HTTP requests to .protected by IdentityServer4 resource