Comprehensive Rust 🦀 

This is a three day Rust course developed by the Android team. The course covers the full spectrum of Rust, from basic syntax to advanced topics like generics and error handling. It also includes Android-specific content on the last day. 

The preview release of PowerShell 7.1 includes .NET 5 preview 1. Starting with PowerShell 7.0, devs have shifted to align with .NET’s release and support life-cycle more closely. PowerShell 7.1 is expected to become available within a week or two of .NET 5’s release date of winter 2020 and align with their annual release cadence going forward. 

ASP.NET Core and Blazor futures Q&A | DIS201H

#MSBuild

Join us for a discussion on the future of web development with the ASP.NET Core team. Get the team's perspective first-hand on the roadmap for ASP.NET Core and Blazor in .NET 8 and get all of your burning questions answered. We discuss Blazor, Native AOT, cloud native development, and anything else that you want to ask us about. 

Interesting not only because it comes from Facebook, but because there’s a pretty good 23 minute talk about it and it follows the latest React standards. 

Help users change passwords easily by adding a well-known URL for changing passwords 

• Don't expire passwords arbitrarily; regular expiration encourages users to choose easy-to-guess, less secure passwords 

We just published eShopSupport, a .NET sample app that brings AI into the world of eShop. Includes examples of summarisation, classification, semantic search, and a Q&A bot (including local models). It’s the demo app we used in talks such as

When a VM is loaded, it contains

• Windows 10, version 2004 (10.0.19041.0)
• Windows 10 SDK, version 2004 (10.0.19041.0)
• Visual Studio 2019 (latest as of 6/15/20) with the UWP, .NET desktop, and Azure workflows enabled and also includes the Windows Template Studio extension
• Visual Studio Code (latest as of 6/15/20)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux enabled with Ubuntu installed
• Developer mode enabled 

In this short video Nate shows us how to use Entity Framework 7 in a cross platform way (on a mac in this case). One of the guiding principles (as outlined by Rowan in an earlier video) was the ability to use EF7 on any kind of device. This video shows the culmination of that work.

Based on the above observations, we can conclude that React will be the best framework to learn in 2021, followed by Vue. But there is a high chance of Angular defending second place since it has been there for a longer period of time than Vue, and surely 2021 is not the end of that. So if you are an Angular developer, I suggest you learn React in the upcoming days.