Syncfusion’s Essential Studio 2020 Volume 1 includes new Kanban, Progress Bar, and Card controls in preview for the Blazor suite and the move of 11 other controls to final release. 

Syncfusion also added new features such as trend line support for the Charts control, and Xamarin.Forms now comes with WPF support for the DataGrid control.

Additional details are available here.

Visual Studio Code 1.44 released 
Updates to the March 2020 release of Visual Studio Code include improved diff view navigation, clearer role designations for UI controls, and the ability to see time-series events like Git commit history from within VS Code, as well as other accessibility improvements.

Developers can now also directly check out pull requests into containers, and have support for Kubernetes. Settings Sync also now lets users share snippets and UI state across machines.

Additional details are available here.

Nintex Workflow Cloud updates
Nintex announced integrated workflows and RPA bots through Nintex Gateway. This provides a drag-and-drop interaction between workflows and bots.

Process workflows can also delegate tasks to Nintex RPA bots that mimic human keystrokes and mouse clicks to interact with apps, systems, services, and websites through their existing screens and interfaces, which results in less work being assigned back to the user and helps organizations leverage cloud workflow capabilities while protecting their on-premises investments, according to Nintex.

Additional details are available here.

Go 1.14.2 and 1.13.10 minor releases
Go 1.14.2 includes fixes to cgo, the go command, the runtime, os/exec, and testing packages.

Meanwhile, Go 1.13.10 includes fixes to the go command, the runtime, os/exec, and time packages. 

Additional details are available here.

Ascend announces integration with Looker for data analysis
Ascend announced a native integration between the Ascend and Looker platforms, which aims to close the gap between enterprise data engineering and data analysis platforms. 

“Ascend brings an unprecedented capability to the Looker ecosystem with which BI teams and analysts can self-serve live data directly from data lakes and pipelines in their SQL statement,” said Shohei Narron, a technology partner manager at Looker, which joined with Google Cloud in February of 2020. “As a result, Looker visualizations, LookML models, and Looker-based APIs can harness data pipelines with no further ETL synchronization required.”

Additional details are available here.