• Enhanced C# support: enjoy better C# 8.0 support, and apply the Convert concatenation to interpolation context action in scope. 

Starting with .NET Core 3.0 Preview 7, the .NET Core SDK installer will remove previous patch versions after a successful installation. This means that if you have 3.0 Preview 5 and Preview 7 on a machine then install Preview 7, only Preview 7 will remain once the process is complete. 

Easy database seeding in .NET (Core) applications 

FIDO2 .NET library for FIDO2 / WebAuthn Attestation and Assertion using .NET 

At Build 2019, Microsoft announced the release date for .NET Core 3.0 to be this coming September. This release includes the highly touted support for desktop platforms like WinForms and WPF. Today, there’s still a large developer base that’s building desktop applications using these .NET Windows desktop frameworks and by using .NET Core 3.0, you can now build desktop applications on the .NET Core platform. 

Welcome to the newest newsletter from JetBrains, .NET Annotated Monthly! This newsletter is hosted by Rachel Appel, a Developer Advocate at JetBrains, with occasional updates from other JetBrains Developer Advocates. 

Announcing docs.microsoft.com/samples - all code samples from Microsoft, in one place! 

One of the most exciting features of .NET Core 3 and C# 8.0 has been the addition of IAsyncEnumerable<T> (aka async streams). But what's so special about it? What can we do now that wasn't possible before? 

Did you know that DotVVM can be used to incrementally modernize old ASP.NET Web Forms applications and lift them to .NET Core? It is much easier than doing a full rewrite, and the application can be deployed at any time during the entire process.

• Install DotVVM NuGet package in your Web Forms site
• Create a DotVVM master page using the same CSS
• Start converting ASPX pages to DotHTML syntax, one at a time
• When all the Web Forms pages are gone, change your CSPROJ to use .NET Core