Last year, Mike Rousos posted a great post about token authentication on the .NET blog and demonstrated how you could leverage ASP.NET Core Identity and OpenIddict to create your own tokens in a completely standard way.  

New In-Memory OLTP improvements in CTP3.1 include:

• Unique indexes in memory-optimized tables, to complement the support for unique constraints that was released in CTP3
• LOB data types varchar(max), nvarchar(max), and varbinary(max) in memory-optimized tables and natively compiled modules
• Indexes with NULLable key columns in memory-optimized tables

Syntax inputdate AT TIME ZONE timezone.

• Inputdate: An expression that can be resolved to a smalldatetime, datetime, datetime2, or datetimeoffset value.
• Timezone: Name of the destination time zone in standard format as enumerated by Windows. Available time zones can be found by querying sys.time_zone_info.
  

SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) updates allow upgrading your existing models to 1200 compatibility level and a JSON editor for SSDT;

To create pull requests in VS Code, hover over the GitHub Pull Requests title and click the + sign. Choose the target branch for the pull request, press enter, and relax—you’ve opened your pull request. 

In this article, I will share seven generative AI prompts that I have created and use as a .NET developer. These prompts can help us work more efficiently, tackle common problems, and improve our projects.

.NET 7 💥 - Angular Authentication with JWT (JSON WEB TOKEN)

In this video we will be going to be exploring the full authentication process from frontend with Angular and backend with WebApi and database as SQLite with JWT 

Channels are a construct that simplifies concurrent execution and pipelining of data and is often touted as one of the main draws of Go. But did you know that .NET also has built-in support for channels? 

NuGet 5.8 is included in Visual Studio 16.8 and .NET 5.0 out of the box. You can also download NuGet 5.8 for Windows, macOS, and Linux as a standalone executable. 

As previously announced, starting January 12, 2016 Microsoft will no longer provide security updates, technical support or hotfixes for .NET 4, 4.5, and 4.5.1 frameworks. All other framework versions, including 3.5, 4.5.2, 4.6 and 4.6.1, will be supported  

Today at .NET Conf 2019, we shared some exciting announcements for Xamarin and Visual Studio developers, including:

• XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms: Make changes to your XAML UI. See them reflected live on your emulator, simulator, or physical device.
• Xamarin Hot Restart: Test changes made to your app, including multi-file code edits, resources, and references, while using a much faster build and deploy cycle.
• iOS 13 and Android 10: Take advantage of the full power and performance of native platforms and APIs. Including iPadOS, dark mode, and foldable support.