Let’s dive in and see what’s new in TypeScript 3.4!
- Faster subsequent builds with the --incremental flag
- Higher order type inference from generic functions
- Improvements for ReadonlyArray and readonly tuples
- const assertions
- Type-checking for globalThis
- Convert parameters to destructured object
- Breaking changes
LINQPad Succinctly offers IT professionals a detailed examination of how and why LINQPad can improve development lifecycle and deliver applications in less time. Author José Roberto Olivas Mendoza begins with a detailed overview of LINQPad's features, then delves into the installation process, including necessary prerequisites. Readers then get instruction on how to get the most out of LINQPad, such as how to query data bases and using LINQPad as a code scratchpad, which allows users to save significant time and effort on application delivery.
Tune in online on December 4, 2018 for a full day of dev-focused delight—including updates on Azure and Visual Studio, keynotes, demos, and real-time coding with experts—live from the Microsoft Azure and AI Conference.
Bootstrap Icons v1.11.0 has arrived with 100 new icons—including new floppy disk icons, additional brand icons, new person icons, new emojis, some birthday cake, a few new science icons, and more. We’re now at over 2,000 icons!
Mads Kristensen shows off some new and upcoming web editor features in Visual Studio, including the new Web Compiler. (note: this video recording starts shortly after shows off the new Web Extension Pack
The @font-face CSS at-rule allows authors to specify online fonts to display text on their web pages. By allowing authors to provide their own fonts, @font-face eliminates the need to depend on the limited number of fonts users have installed on their computers. Unfortunately different browsers understand differnt font types. This service allows you to generate css rule and font files that makes your font work in all the browsers that support font-face or webfonts.
During the last Build conference, Microsoft has announced the next
version of Visual Studio with C# 7.3 support. This is yet another minor
language update with some quite interesting features. The main change
was related to generics, starting from C# 7.3 there 3 more constraints: unmanaged, System.Enum and System.Delegate.
LokiJS is an in-memory database which prioritises performance over everything. LokiJS supports field indexing for faster document access and performs really well (near 500,000 ops/s) on those. Its built-in DynamicView class also enables to utilize indexes on data subsets for even faster performance.
In this video Anders Hejlsberg spends some time discussing TypeScript. He starts with the reasons behind creating TypeScript (the so called elevator speech) and then moves on to some of the features coming in the next release. He mentions a number of features but spends the time discussing the null (and corresponding undefined) types and how TypeScript 2 makes handling them much easier.
.NET Core + Angular Dashboard
Topics Covered:
- Building a dashboard application in Angular
- Building a Web API in .NET Core 2.0
- Using Chart.js to build stunning charts of different types
- Making HTTP requests using Angular to query a Web API
- Using Postman to send requests
- Working with Observables
- Using Input and Output decorators in Angular
- Using PostgreSQL and pgAdmin
- Automatically seeding a database with large amounts of sample data
- Styling an application using custom CSS and Bootstrap 4
- Using Map, Filter, and Reduce in Javascript
- Creating Routes in Angular
- Get, Put, Post, Patch Web API Controller Action request types
- Configuring your API for CORS
