Google I/O 2017 had several major announcements, but one of the most interesting to me is “first-class support for Kotlin” on Android. 

Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support—what you need to know | Windows Experience Blog 

Rider 2020.3: .NET 5, C# 9, F# 5, Immediate Window, Project Dependency Diagram, and Updates to Unity Support 

Two big reasons to use SQL Server Management Studio 18 - High DPI Support and Query Results Output Now 2 MB 

CSS Fonts 3 added downloadable font support to CSS with @font-face, and also control of OpenType features. 

Before we dive into the technical details, let’s start with a quick history lesson, courtesy of Don Syme who worked on adding generics to .NET and then went on to design and implement F#, which is a pretty impressive set of achievements!!

Background and History

• 1999 Initial research, design and planning
  • .NET/C# Generics History: Some Photos From Feb 1999
• 1999 First ‘white paper’ published
  • More C#/.NET Generics Research Project History – The MSR white paper
  • MSR White Paper: Proposed Extensions to COM+ VOS (Draft) (pdf)
• 2001 C# Language Design Specification created
  • Some History: 2001 “GC#” (Generic C#) research project draft
  • MSR - .NET Generics Research Project - Generic C# Specification (pdf)
• 2001 Research paper published
  • Design and Implementation of Generics for the .NET CLR (pdf)
• 2004 Work completed and all bugs fixed
  • Some more .NET/C# Generics Research Project History 

Create your unique artistic spectacular gallery for your photos with variety of beautiful animated hover effects, using templates and examples, color schemes, svg and canvas photo filters and other tools!

• integrated support for canvas and svg filters
• perfect for mobile devices
• simple templating tools
• built-in lightbox with retina support
• 2 retina modes
• memory saving algorithm
• works either with json or html formats (custom parsers) 

It provides all the features available in the GitHub plain-text editor, including Markdown input. For features like tables, it offers a much easier experience in comparison to plain-text Markdown and allows users to be more productive.  

Here’s a summary of what’s new in this preview release:

• HTTP/2 performance improvements
• Typed results for minimal APIs
• OpenAPI improvements for minimal APIs
• Return multiple results types from minimal APIs
• Route groups
• Client results in SignalR
• gRPC JSON transcoding
• Project template option to use Program.Main method instead of top-level statements
• Rate limiting middleware 

The fourth preview of Entity Framework Core (EF Core) 8 is available on NuGet today!

Basic information

EF Core 8, or just EF8, is the successor to EF Core 7, and is scheduled for release in November 2023, at the same time as .NET 8.

EF8 previews currently target .NET 6, and can therefore be used with either .NET 6 (LTS) or .NET 7. This will likely be updated to .NET 8 as we near release.

EF8 will align with .NET 8 as a long-term support (LTS) release. See the .NET support policy for more information.