.NET Core 2.2 is set to reach end of life on December 29, 2019, after that patch updates will no longer include updated packages of container images for .NET Core 2.2. The supported upgrade path from .NET Core 2.2 is via .NET Core 3.1. Microsoft has provided documents on how to do this, which are … continue reading
Ionic React — a native React version of Ionic Framework that simplifies the building of apps for iOS, Android, Desktop, and the web as a Progressive Web App — is now generally available. “After talking with a lot of fellow React developers at conferences like React Rally, it was clear that there was a gap … continue reading
The developers of Rust announced the release of rustup 1.20.0, which is the recommended tool to install Rust. This latest version includes the ability to get the latest available nightly with all the components you need, and improvements to the ‘rustup doc’ command. To fix the problem of slow down installation in previous versions, rustup … continue reading
Microsoft announced the TypeScript 3.7 beta, introducing new features and bug fixes. The new features include optional chaining, which allows users to write code where they can immediately stop running some expressions if they run into a ‘null’ or ‘undefined.’ It also introduces nullish coalescing, which can be thought of as the ‘??’ operator – … continue reading
AWS announced that it is joining the .NET Foundation as a corporate sponsor to foster innovation with .NET and to support open-source projects. AWS explained that as soon as .NET Core was in development, the company worked to add support for .NET Core during the early stages of beta and also released the first Lambda … continue reading
Today, during the virtual summit .NET Conf, Microsoft announced the availability of its updated cross-platform framework .NET Core 3.0. This release is packed with improvements, new features and advanced support. The biggest changes in 3.0 include: .NET Core 3.0 has already been battle-tested and will soon be deploying on large workloads Performance has been enhanced … continue reading
APM provider Instana released its code-level monitoring and tracing tool for .Net Core and expanded the number of programming languages that can be automatically instrumented to 12. Whether it’s for Java, C#, .Net, Ruby, Node, Go or other, developers can use automatic tracing with the .Net Core agent, the company explained. “It’s critical for any … continue reading
.NET Core Preview 6 is now available on Windows, macOS and Linux. The preview includes updates for compiling assemblies for improved startup, optimizing applications for size with linker and EventPipe improvements, according to Microsoft. Also, the WPF team explained it has now published most of its WPF codebase to GitHub since the company acquired GitHub … continue reading
Microsoft is making big changes to .NET this year and next. The next big .NET release after .NET Core 3.0 will be .NET 5. With the .NET 5 release, there will be a single .NET, which can be used to target Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, tvOS, watchOS, WebAssembly, and more. This single .NET platform … continue reading
Cockroach Labs added enterprise-grade features to the newly released 19.1 version of CockroachDB, a cloud-native, geo-distributed SQL database. The new version tackles legacy database struggles with transitioning high-value workloads to a globally distributed environment in the cloud. The features include Change Data Capture (CDC) integration with Kafka for analyzing and visualizing data changes, deeper conformance … continue reading
Microsoft is updating its product lines to take advantage of the latest major release of the C# programming language. The company announced C# 8 is included in the release of Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2, and today in the open-source development platform .NET Core 3 Preview 2. C# 8 features pattern matching for recursive patterns … continue reading
Microsoft has announced a preview for .NET Core 2.1 Preview 1, which is the first public release of .NET Core 2.1. The release will provide faster build performance, close gaps in ASP.NET Core and EF Core, and improve compatibility with the .NET framework. It will also improve GDPR compliance, security, microservice capabilities, Azure capabilities, and … continue reading
