• Fixed a bug that caused Code Analysis to stop running on some C++ projects.
• Fixed a bug in the Schema Compare Tool where adding tables with an empty schema failed but was shown as successful.
• Fixed a TypeScript build issue when the selected language version is lower than the latest installed.
• Fixed a Database unresolved reference to object error.
• Improved performance issues on loading Visual Studio.
• Fixed known issue: No snapshot created for C++ native code in Memory Usage tool in the Diagnostic Tools window while debugging.. 

A join is a lookup
A join is a nested loop over rows
A join is a nested loop over columns
A join is compatible alternate realities
A join is flatMap
A join is the solution to the N+1 problem
A join is paths through a graph
A join is a minimal model
A join is typechecking
A join is an operation in the Set monad
A join is the biggest acceptable relation
A join is a…join
A join is a ring product
 

.NET Conf: Focus on Windows is a free, one-day livestream event that features speakers from the community and Microsoft teams working on Windows desktop apps and making them fantastic on the latest .NET 5. Learn why and how to upgrade WPF and Windows Forms apps to .NET 5, see Visual Studio tooling improvements, learn how to leverage cloud services from your client apps, and a whole lot more. You'll also see what the future of native device development with .NET will look like in .NET 6.  

Modern software development practices value quick and continuous updates, following processes that minimize the impact of software failures. As important as identifying bugs early, finding out if changes are improving business value are equally important. These practices can only work when a monitoring solution is in place. This article explores options for adding observability to .NET Core apps. They have been collected based on interactions with customers using .NET Core in different environments. We will be looking into OpenTelemetry and Application Insights SDKs to add observability to a sample distributed application. 

An easy way to perform background job processing in your .NET and .NET Core applications. No Windows Service or separate process required. CPU and I/O intensive, long-running and short-running jobs are supported. Backed by Redis, SQL Server, SQL Azure and MSMQ. 

PM> Install-Package Hangfire

After installation, update your existing OWIN Startup file with the following lines of code. If you do not have this class in your project or don't know what is it, please read the Quick start guide to learn about how to install Hangfire.

public void Configuration(IAppBuilder app)
{
    GlobalConfiguration.Configuration.UseSqlServerStorage("<connection string or its name>");
    
    app.UseHangfireServer();
    app.UseHangfireDashboard();
}  

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Becoming a software architect isn't something that simply happens overnight or with a promotion. It's a role , not a rank . It's an evolutionary process where you'll gradually gain the experience and confidence that you need to undertake the role.

There a misinformed notions floating around the agile community that products and better than projects. That some how - unspecified and unsubstantiated  as usual - that projects are undesirable and focusing on products and their value - again unspecified how to measure that value and unsubstantiated that value measurement isn't what projects do as well. 

Firefox 74 is the first browser version that drops support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1. It will no longer establish connections to web sites that use these outdated standards. 

The current plan is that C# 8.0 will ship at the same time as .NET Core 3.0. However, the features will start to come alive with the previews of Visual Studio 2019 that we are working on.