‘Always Encrypted’ is the ability to perform SQL operations (there are restrictions) on your data as it were normal (non encrypted), while keeping them encrypted all the time. 

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. 

Awesome SQL Code Review Tools for Developers

Today we are going to look into some of the tools that can help you in reviewing SQL code. These tools will assist in a variety of domain that is related to SQL such as code analysis, formatting, refactoring, and code documentation. 

“My browser lost its cookies” has long been one of the most longstanding Support complaints in the history of browsers. Unfortunately, the reason that it has been such a longstanding issue is that it’s not the result of a single problem, and if the problem is intermittent (as it often is), troubleshooting the root cause may be non-trivial.  

EF and EF Core DbContext types implement IDisposable. As such, best practice programming suggests that you should wrap them in a using() block (or new C# 8 using statement). Unfortunately, doing this, at least in web apps, is generally a bad idea. 

Try Bazel’s opt-in preview in Angular CLI

In Google we build all our software with a tool called Bazel. We’ve been using it for the past over 12 years to build projects with any size — from small internal apps, to large applications such as Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Cloud Console. 

It's always the same: After npm installing a new library, we have to follow a readme step by step to include it into our application. Usually this involves creating configuration objects, referencing css files, and importing Angular Modules. As such tasks aren't fun at all it would be nice to automate this.  

ng add

Ring UI library gives you the power of complex UI controls that have been developed at JetBrains over the years. It contains over 50 React controls, ranging from simple links and buttons to sophisticated controls, such as Date Picker or Data List. 

In 2015, two engineers at Google designed a new compression algorithm called Brotli that can have a better compression without spending more time. Brotli is already supported by the most browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Microsoft Edge.

services.AddResponseCompression(options =>
{
   options.Providers.Add<BrotliCompressionProvider>();
   options.MimeTypes = ResponseCompressionDefaults.MimeTypes.Concat(new[] { "image/svg+xml" });
});

app.UseResponseCompression();