In my earlier post Getting Started: Xamarin Forms with .NET Standard I covered how to create a new Xamarin Forms project which uses a .NET Standard 1.4 library to share the views between iOS, Android and UWP. 

In this article, we'll walk you through updating an existing ASP.NET Core 1.x project to ASP.NET Core 2.0. Migrating your application to ASP.NET Core 2.0 enables you to take advantage of many new features and performance improvements.

WPF panels arrange elements in rectangular areas and most WPF elements have rectangular shape. HexGrid project started as an attempt to create a custom shaped control and evolved into a hexagonal control and a panel which can arrange them. 

Those of you who worked with ASP.NET web forms will recollect that certain server controls such as DropDownList have a property called AutoPostBack. This property when set to true automatically submits the form to the server whenever the selection changes and raises some server side event. In modern web development people prefer to use Ajax over AutoPostBack but at times AutoPostBack is what you might need. To that end this article shows how AutoPostBack can be implemented in ASP.NET Core applications. 

1. Find Slow Queries With SQL DMVs
2. Query Reporting via APM Solutions
3. SQL Server Profiler (DEPRECATED!)
4. SQL Server Extended Events
5. SQL Azure Query Performance Insights  

It’s No Longer MVC By Default
Cutting Down the List of Default MVC Services
Enabling the MVC Service
MVC Controllers
 ...
 

ASP.NET Core MVC has introduced quite a few concepts that ....

C# can be developed and run on more and more platforms, and thanks to the "Roslyn" language engine you can increasingly make your own tooling for it. C# 7 embraces several new features for working better with data, such as tuples and pattern matching. Come see how you can start using C# 7 today!