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.NET 7 SDK Now Supports Building Containerised Apps
Microsoft announced on August 25th that .NET 7 SDK will include support for creating containerised applications as part of a build publish process, bypassing the need for explicit Docker build phase.
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Microsoft Releases SynapseML 0.1.0 with .NET and Cognitive Services Support
Microsoft announced the first .NET-compatible version of SynapseML, a new machine learning (ML) library for Apache Spark distributed processing platform. Version 0.1.0 of the SynapseML library adds support for .NET bindings, allowing .NET developers to write ML pipelines in their preferred language.
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Microsoft Dev Box Now in Public Preview
Azure recently announced the public preview of Microsoft Dev Box, a workstation in the cloud targeted to developers. Integrated with Windows 365, the new service supports any developer IDE, SDK, or tool that runs on Windows and simplifies onboarding of new developers.
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Microsoft Releases .NET Community Toolkit 8 with Automatic Source Generation
Microsoft has released version 8.0.0 of .NET Community Toolkit (NCT), a collection of helpers and APIs that make it easier to use patterns like MVVM (model-view-viewmodel) independently of the underlying platform. In this version, developers can benefit from reduced boilerplate code and streamlined API methods.
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Microsoft Claims Entity Framework Core 7 Faster When Saving Changes
Entity Framework (EF) Core, Microsoft's object-to-database mapper library for .NET Framework, brings performance improvements for data updates in version 7, Microsoft claims. The performance of SaveChanges method in EF7 is up to 74% faster than in EF6, in some scenarios.
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Microsoft to End Support for .NET Core 3.1 in December 2022
The long-term-support (LTS) version 3.1 of Microsoft .NET Core Framework is slated to go out of support on December 13th, 2022. Microsoft recommends upgrading .NET Core 3.1 applications to .NET 6.0 to stay supported for the future, while the developers have mixed feelings about the .NET support policy.
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PostgreSQL 14 Breaks the .NET and Java Drivers for PostgreSQL
In some circumstances, the new syntax in PostgreSQL 14 will break its official .NET and Java database driver, specifically, when using to create a SQL function using BEGIN ATOMIC ... END. If you are not modifying your database schema via Npgsql or PgJDBC, there’s no need to worry.
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Database Command Batching in .NET 6
.NET 6 adds the ability for ADO.NET database drivers to support efficient command batching using native protocols.
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C# Warning Waves Hint at New Keywords in the Future
Like C# 9 and 10, C# 11 has quietly added a new compiler warning. This opt-in warning prevents the use of type names (e.g. classes, structs, and interfaces) that are all lowercase.
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ImageSharp 2.0.0: the Feature-Packed Release
ImageSharp, one of the most popular .NET image-processing libraries, released version 2 of their library. The release includes major features such as supporting WebP, TIFF and PBM as well adding XMP support with various performance improvements and enhancements for JPEG and PNG formats. This release drops support for .NET Standard 1.3. The update replaces version 1.0.4.
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Couchbase Mobile 3 Brings New C and Kotlin APIs, Simplified Administration
NoSQL database maker Couchbase has released Couchbase Mobile 3, its edge-ready mobile database, introducing a new C API to embed Couchbase Lite on embedded platforms, Kotlin support on Android, a new administration REST API, and security enhancements.
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.NET Framework January 2022 Cumulative Update Preview
Last month, Microsoft released the .NET Framework January 2022 Cumulative Update Preview, part of the company's promise to support .NET Framework. The update targets .NET Framework versions 3.5 and 4.8 and focuses on the Common Language Runtime and Windows Presentation Foundation. The preview release aims to increase reliability and quality of the .NET Framework features for Windows OS.
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Minimal APIs, Blazor Improvements, and Tools Updates in ASP.NET Core 6
Recently, Microsoft has released .NET 6, which includes a broad set of new features and improvements related to the ASP.NET Core framework, including minimal APIs, Blazor improvements, and tools updates. This release focuses on making ASP.NET a complete framework to build modern and highly scalable web applications.
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Microsoft Releases YARP - Yet Another Reverse Proxy
Last year, in November, Microsoft released YARP (Yet Another Reverse Proxy), a reverse-proxy project developed during the last years by Microsoft as an open-source project.
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ClusterFuzzLite Brings ClusterFuzz to GitHub Actions and Other CI/CD Pipelines
ClusterFuzzLite, as implied by its name, is a light version of Google ClusterFuzz, a tool aimed to find security and stability issues in software systems through fuzz testing. ClusterFuzzLite is meant to be integrated in a CI pipeline with a few lines of code, says Google.