In this blog post, I’m going to cover the following topics:

• The new DateOnly and TimeOnly types
• Time Zone Conversion APIs
• Time Zone Display Names on Linux and macOS
• TimeZoneInfo.AdjustmentRule Improvements

For even more details, you can also refer to dotnet/runtime#45318 on GitHub. 

With .NET 5 released in November, it’s a good time to talk about some of the many improvements in the networking stack. This includes improvements around HTTP, Sockets, networking-related security, and other networking primitives. In this post, I will highlight some of the more impactful and interesting changes in the release. 

Five reasons you should use SQLite in 2016 

With the 4.6.1 RC we have added support for WPF to recognize custom dictionaries registered globally. This capability is available in addition to the ability to register them per-control. Also, custom dictionaries in the previous versions of WPF had no affordance for Excluded Words and AutoCorrect lists. On Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, these scenarios are now enabled through the use of files that can be placed under %AppData%\Microsoft\Spelling\<language tag>.

Wrap text output on resize 

capturing loopback traffic