Plan for Entity Framework Core 5.0 

How to migrate from Newtonsoft.Json to System.Text.Json 

.NET Conf: Focus on Blazor is a free, one-day livestream event that features speakers from the community and .NET product teams that are working on building web apps with C# and Blazor. You don't need to use JavaScript anymore with Blazor technology! Blazor lets you build interactive web UIs using C# instead of JavaScript. 

.NET Core

• January 2020 Updates – 2.1.15, 3.0.2, and 3.1.1

• .NET Core 3.1.1 and .NET Core SDK 3.1.101( Release Notes | Download )

• .NET Core 3.0.2 and .NET Core SDK 3.0.102 ( Release Notes | Download )

• .NET Core 2.1.15 and .NET Core SDK 2.1.803 ( Release Notes | Download )

So Many Ways to Learn .NET in 2020 

Building a self-contained game in C# under 8 kilo bytes

• Windows 7 SP1+
• Windows Vista SP 2+
• Windows 8.1
• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Windows Server 2012 R2
  
• Windows 10 Client 
  

• CentOS 7+
• Debian 9+
• Fedora 29+
• Red Hat 6, 7, 8 
  

For now, Microsoft's .NET Core milestones page shows .NET 5.0 about 53 percent complete, with 1,066 issues open and 1,216 issues closed.

Highlights of .NET 5 include:

• Developers will have more choice on runtime experiences.
• Java interoperability will be available on all platforms.
• Objective-C and Swift interoperability will be supported on multiple operating systems.
• CoreFX will be extended to support static compilation of .NET (ahead-of-time – AOT), smaller footprints and support for more operating systems. 

• Outstanding support for T4 templates is here with capabilities such as template execution, debugging, code highlighting, navigation, refactorings, code completion, and much more.