.NET Bytes

THE NEWS FROM REDMOND What is Project Reunion? .NET Conf - “Focus on Microservices” - July 30, 2020 .NET Conf 2020 - November 10-12 Windows Terminal Preview 1.1 Release Terminal 2.0 Roadmap Introducing dotnet-monitor, an experimental tool Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6.3 Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7 Preview 3 Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7 Preview 3.1 Visual Studio 2019 for Mac 8.6.5 Release Notes Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 6 ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Preview 6 Announcing Entity Framework Core EFCore 5.0 Preview 6 Announcing TypeScript 4.0 Beta Architecting Cloud Native .NET Applications for Azure F# 5 and F# tools update for June AROUND THE WORLD UnoConf 2020 (Virtual & Free) – Aug 12, 2020 – Save the date Introducing Sdkbin - The Marketplace for Software Developers Introducing GitHub Super Linter: one linter to rule them all AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds .NET Core on Linux platform Environment Variables with .NET Core and Elastic Beanstalk .NET Foundation June/July 2020 Update PROJECTS OF THE WEEK Orchard Also, be sure and check out the Project of the Week archives! SHOUT-OUTS / PLUGS .NET Bytes on Twitter Matt Groves is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch A Notable Person Calvin Allen is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch

THE NEWS FROM REDMOND Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 5 Introducing “Web Live Preview” gRPC-Web for .NET now available Xamarin.Forms 4.7: Grid Column & Row Definitions, Multi-Bindings, Shapes & Paths, and More! .NET Core June 2020 Updates – 2.1.19 and 3.1.5 ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Preview 5 Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 5 Windows Terminal Preview 1.1 Release AROUND THE WORLD ReSharper 2020.2 Roadmap Rider 2020.2 Early Access Program Begins! ReSharper Ultimate Starts Its Early Access Program for 2020.2! Memory profiling on Linux and macOS with dotMemory 2020.2 .NET Foundation Election 2020 Nominations are Open! Uno Platform Turns Two Years in the Open Blazor vs React Unity 2019 LTS is now available The Developer Ecosystem in 2020: Key Trends for C# PROJECTS OF THE WEEK gsudo A Sudo for Windows - run elevated without spawning a new Console Host Window Also, be sure and check out the Project of the Week archives! SHOUT-OUTS / PLUGS .NET Bytes on Twitter Matt Groves is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch Calvin Allen is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch

THE NEWS FROM REDMOND Introducing YARP Preview 1 Migrating off App Center Push Announcing Experimental Mobile Blazor Bindings May update NuGet.org will permanently remove support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on June 15th Visual Studio 2019 v16.7 Preview 2 Available Today! Introducing Project Tye Developing on Docker with the new and improved Visual Studio Container Tools (and WSL2) winget install learning Introducing Local Process with Kubernetes for Visual Studio 2019 AROUND THE WORLD Announcing PostSharp 6.7 Preview: Support for Xamarin and .NET 5 Pack your .NET program to a single .exe file with PostSharp Community Rider 2020.2 Roadmap JetBrains Academy Is Getting Ready to Hit the Market 10 years of building .NET on AWS Nullable Reference Types: Contexts and Attributes – A Look at New Language Features in C# 8 The Day AppGet Died AWS: End-of-support for Windows PowerShell 2 PROJECTS OF THE WEEK Microsoft Open-Sources GW-BASIC Also, be sure and check out the Project of the Week archives! SHOUT-OUTS / PLUGS .NET Bytes on Twitter Matt Groves is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch Calvin Allen is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch

THE NEWS FROM REDMOND Working with GitHub Issues in Visual Studio Code Visual Studio 2019 Preview Release Notes Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Release Notes Releasing Today! Visual Studio 2019 v16.6 & v16.7 Preview 1 Windows Package Manager Preview Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 now available Windows Terminal 1.0 Introducing WinUI 3 Preview 1 The Windows Subsystem for Linux BUILD 2020 Summary .NET Conf 2020 Welcome to C# 9.0 F# 5 and F# tools update Live Share, now with chat and audio support! Announcing .NET 5 Preview 4 and our journey to one .NET ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Preview 4 Windows Forms Designer for .NET Core Released AROUND THE WORLD Rider 2020.1.3 and ReSharper Ultimate 2020.1.3 Bugfixes Are Here! Rider 2020.1.2 and ReSharper Ultimate 2020.1.2 Bugfixes Are Available! TeamCity 2020.1 RC is out Announcing end of support for .NET Standard 1.3 in AWS SDK for .NET Why model binding to JObject from a request doesn’t work anymore in ASP.NET Core 3.1 and what’s the alternative? Announcing Uno Platform 3.0 – Support for WinUI 3.0 Preview 1 Announcing Uno Platform 2.4 – macOS support and Windows Calculator on macOS PROJECTS OF THE WEEK CSLA CSLA .NET is a software development framework that helps you build a reusable, maintainable object-oriented business layer for your app. This framework reduces the cost of building and maintaining applications. Also, be sure and check out the Project of the Week archives! SHOUT-OUTS / PLUGS .NET Bytes on Twitter Matt Groves is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch Calvin Allen is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch

THE NEWS FROM REDMOND Introducing Visual Studio Codespaces: cloud-hosted development for wherever you’re working Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 Release Candidate now available Introducing C# Source Generators Exception Helper – Rethrown Exceptions ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Preview 3 Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 3 Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 3 Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5.4 Visual Studio 2019 v16.6 Preview 5 npm has joined GitHub Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5.5 (8.5.5.7) AROUND THE WORLD Rider 2020.1 Is Released! ReSharper Ultimate 2020.1: Improved Support for C# 8.0 and C++20, Dataflow Analysis of Integer Values, and Much More JetBrains Academy for learning code launches for free during COVID-19 pandemic Microsoft Build 2020 registration is not only open, it’s FREE, it’s LIVE, it’s VIRTUAL, and it is all FOR YOU Announcing PostSharp 6.6: more free goodies and new licensing options PROJECTS OF THE WEEK CoreBoy CoreBoy is a cross platform GameBoy Emulator written in C# that even does ASCII Also, be sure and check out the Project of the Week archives! SHOUT-OUTS / PLUGS .NET Bytes on Twitter Matt Groves is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch Calvin Allen is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch

THE NEWS FROM REDMOND Announcing Experimental Mobile Blazor Bindings February update .NET Interactive is here! .NET Notebooks Preview 2 .NET Framework February 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Making our Unity Analyzers Open-Source Introducing Scalar: Git at scale for everyone Windows Terminal Preview v0.9 Release AndroidX NuGet Packages are Stable! VS Code January 2020 (version 1.42) Accessibility Improvements in Visual Studio 2019 for Mac Using .NET for Apache Spark to Analyze Log Data Decompilation of C# code made easy with Visual Studio February 2020 release of Azure Data Studio is now available GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups AROUND THE WORLD Rider 2019.3.2 is Available! ReSharper Ultimate 2019.3.2 is Out! AWS SDK for .NET v3.5 Preview JetBrains .NET Day Online 2020 – Call for Speakers Announcing PostSharp 6.5 RC Rider 2020.1 Roadmap PROJECTS OF THE WEEK NetLearner - Shahed Chowdhuri NetLearner is an ASP .NET Core web app to allow any user to consolidate multiple learning resources all under one umbrella. The codebase itself is a way for new/existing .NET developers to learn ASP .NET Core, while a deployed instance of NetLearner can be used as a curated link-sharing web application. Also, be sure and check out the Project of the Week archives! SHOUT-OUTS / PLUGS .NET Bytes on Twitter Matt Groves is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch Calvin Allen is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch

THE NEWS FROM REDMOND What’s New in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Preview 2 Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5 Preview 2 is available Visual Studio for Mac: Refresh(); event speakers and sessions .NET Framework January Preview of Quality Rollup A new experiment: Call .NET gRPC services from the browser with gRPC-Web Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 Preview 1 release now available Announcing MBaaS Service Retirement Azure Functions runtime 3.0 is now generally available Microsoft Playwright AROUND THE WORLD DevExpress is a corporate sponsor of the .NET Foundation PROJECTS OF THE WEEK Ryujinx - Nintendo Switch emulator for .NET Core 3.0+ OWASP .NET Project .NET Open Source Days Tuxboard - An open-source dashboard framework for ASP.NET Core 3.x Also, be sure and check out the Project of the Week archives! SHOUT-OUTS / PLUGS .NET Bytes on Twitter Matt Groves is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch Calvin Allen is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch

THE NEWS FROM REDMOND .NET Conf: Focus on Blazor .NET Conf: Focus on Xamarin Announcing Experimental Mobile Blazor Bindings Get Moving with Xamarin.Forms 4.4 Xamarin Goes Dual Screen Best Practices - Async / Await Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4 Preview 4 is now available Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4 is now available Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4.2 Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4.3 Modernizing Find in Files SQL Server 2019 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 now Generally Available $select Enhancement in ASP.NET Core OData An Introduction to DataFrame An Introduction to System.Threading.Channels Announcing the PowerShell 7.0 Release Candidate Announcing TypeScript 3.8 Beta ConfigureAwait FAQ ASP.NET Core Diagnostic Scenarios - David Fowler Windows Terminal Preview v0.8 Release .NET Core January 2020 Updates – 2.1.15, 3.0.2, and 3.1.1 .NET Framework January Security and Quality Rollup The GitHub for Android beta is here AROUND THE WORLD .NET Foundation - Oren Novotny - New Executive Director Uno Platform 2.0 RELOADED - General Availability, Hot Reload and more! Introducing T4 Text Template Support in Rider 2019.3 ReSharper Ultimate 2019.3.1 Hotfix Is Out! Rider 2019.3.1 Hotfix Is Out! ReSharper Ultimate 2019.2.4 and Rider 2019.2.4 Bug Fixes Are Here! Project Model Updates in Rider 2019.3 Webinar – Background Tasks Without a Separate Service: Hangfire for ASP.NET Couchbase Couchbase Server 6.5 Couchbase Mobile 2.7 .NET SDK beta4 PROJECT OF THE WEEK Building A New Win 3.1 App in 2019 Part 1: Slack Client C# Twitch Chat, Whisper, API and PubSub Library. Allows for chatting, whispering, stream event subscription and channel/account modification. Supports .NET Core 2.0 Also, be sure and check out the Project of the Week archives! SHOUT-OUTS / PLUGS LGR - Lazy Game Review Benj Edwards .NET Bytes on Twitter Matt Groves is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch Calvin Allen is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch

THE NEWS FROM REDMOND Announcing .NET Core 3.1 ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Core 3.1 Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.1 and Entity Framework 6.4 Visual Studio 2019 v16.4.0 Release Visual Studio 2019 v16.4.1 Release Azure IoT Tools November Update: standalone simulator for Azure IoT Edge development and more! Merge Conflict Episode 178: Building C# with Mads Torgersen - hosted by James Montemagno .NET Core 2.2 will reach End of Life on December 23, 2019 Visual Studio 2019 v16.5 Preview 1 Release Updates to .NET Core Windows Forms designer in Visual Studio 16.5 Preview 1 We made Windows Server Core container images >40% smaller Azure Functions 3.0 go-live release is now available .NET Framework December 2019 Security and Quality Rollup Pinnable Properties: Debug & Display Managed Objects YOUR Way Azure DevOps will no longer support Alternate Credentials authentication C# Language Version Planning Windows Terminal Preview v0.7 Release AROUND THE WORLD Microsoft: We’re creating a new Rust-like programming language for secure coding Announcing PostSharp 6.4: Support for .NET Core 3.0 and more AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) – Java and .NET are Now Generally Available AWS Tools for PowerShell is now generally available with version 4.0 Introducing the AWS Toolkit for Rider ReSharper Ultimate 2019.3 Release Is Out! Localization Becomes easier with the Localization Manager in ReSharper 2019.3 Rider 2019.3 Release Is Out! Visual Studio Tips Advent Calendar Azure Advent Calendar F# Advent Calendar PROJECT OF THE WEEK TwitchLib C# Twitch Chat, Whisper, API and PubSub Library. Allows for chatting, whispering, stream event subscription and channel/account modification. Supports .NET Core 2.0 Also, be sure and check out the Project of the Week archives! SHOUT-OUTS / PLUGS .NET Bytes on Twitter Matt Groves is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch Calvin Allen is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch

Folks, sorry for the delay on the release of this episode. We’re getting into the holiday season here in the United States, and we’ve had to do some traveling. This episode caps off at November 20th. Episode 13th will be recorded soon, and will fill in the gaps (slightly extended as well), so stay tuned! THE NEWS FROM REDMOND .NET Framework November 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup .NET Framework November 13, 2019, Update for .NET Framework 4.8 .NET Framework Repair Tool Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3.9 Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 Preview 5 .NET Core November 2019 Updates – 2.1.14, 2.2.8, and 3.0.1 Announcing .NET Core 3.1 Preview 3 ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Core 3.1 Preview 3 Improvements in .NET Core 3.0 for troubleshooting and monitoring distributed apps Re-imagining collaboration for Visual Studio with Live Share app casting and contacts Visual Studio for Mac: Take Control of Your IDE with Keybindings MSDN Backlog ML.NET Model Builder Updates gRPC vs HTTP APIs Building Modern Cloud Applications using Pulumi and .NET Core AROUND THE WORLD Meet WebWindow, a cross-platform webview library for .NET Core Exploring lighter alternatives to Electron for hosting a Blazor desktop app Using foreach with index in C# - Thomas Levesque’s .NET blog IHostingEnvironment vs IHostEnvironment - obsolete types in .NET Core 3.0 Edge for ARM Stir Scholarship Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise Announcing PostSharp 6.4 RC: Support for .NET Core 3.0 PROJECT OF THE WEEK Uno Platform Uno platform is for building native mobile, desktop, and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML from a single codebase. Open source and professionally supported. CodeQL Discover vulnerabilities across a codebase with CodeQL, our industry-leading semantic code analysis engine. CodeQL lets you query code as though it were data. Write a query to find all variants of a vulnerability, eradicating it forever. Then share your query to help others do the same. CodeQL is free for research and open source. Appears to support C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, and Python. SHOUT-OUTS / PLUGS .NET Bytes on Twitter Matt Groves is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch Calvin Allen is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch