Microsoft announced the 1.0 specification for OpenTelemetry .NET, the canonical distribution of the OpenTelemetry SDK implementation in .NET. The 1.0 release includes OpenTelemetry .NET APIs: Tracing API, Baggage API, Context API and Propagators API. Developers will also have access to an SDK that provides controls for sampling, processing and exporting as well as documentation, which … continue reading
PeachPie, a platform that allows developers to use PHP as if it were a native .NET language, has reached its 1.0.0 release. The platform consists of a compiler, runtime, extension libraries, IDE support, and MSBuild support. It has been under development for several years, and the 1.0.0 release focused on getting a few open-source PHP … continue reading
The second preview of .NET 6 is now available with new APIs, runtime improvements, and early .NET MAUI builds. According to the team, with this announcement they are now back on schedule to monthly previews until .NET 6 is officially released in November. Once released, .NET 6 will be supported for three years as a … continue reading
Microsoft announced that .NET Core 2.1 will reach end of support on August 21st, 2021, after which there will be no more updates and security fixes. The .NET Core cross platform and Mobile development workloads won’t be changed and the .NET Core 2.1 component remains as required because these workloads can’t be used without .NET … continue reading
The new Visual Studio 2019 v16.9 preview 1 includes new features such as Address Sanitizer with C++, which is now generally available; C++ conformance, which allows destructors and new expressions to be ‘constexpr;’ and C++ Intellisense. Visual Studio 2019 also now offers the ability to filter out redundant frames from the call stack when the … continue reading
Microsoft has announced the first developer preview for .NET 6, which is scheduled for November 2021 as a long-term support (LTS) release. This release will include major improvements for cloud, desktop, and mobile apps, as well as deliver on the .NET unification vision. According to Microsoft, .NET 6 centered around a more open planning process, … continue reading
Mobilize.NET and Infragistics have announced a new partnership to provide users with migration tools for Silverlight. Through the partnership, the two companies will work to help users migrate Infragistics Silverlight UI controls to Angular and HTML. Mobilize.NET will also release a free migration assessment tool for Silverlight that provides a detailed inventory of a Silverlight … continue reading
Infragistics Ultimate 20.2 is a complete UX and UI solution that is compatible with Microsoft’s latest .NET 5 release. According to the company, users can speed up their app creation by using the new Indigo.Design App Builder drag and drop tool. Infragistics Ultimate 20.2 also includes new components and features such as toolkits for Angular, … continue reading
Apache Kafka 2.7.0 is now available with new features and enhancements. Kafka is a stream-processing software platform. The release makes progress towards replacing ZooKeeper with KIP-497. According to the team, this will add a new inter-broker API for altering ISR. Other features include the addition of the Core Raft implementation and seven KIPs in active … continue reading
Infragistics announced the release of Ignite UI for React, and Ignite UI for web components. The new releases include new features to the Ignite UI Data Grid and one new preview component. The component includes cell editing in the data grid, which enables the user to edit the data presented to them in a web … continue reading
Microsoft has announced the release of .NET 5.0, which is the first release of the platform that combines .NET with .NET Framework. .NET 5.0 is a major release, and is also the fifth release since becoming an open-source project. “Last year, we shared a vision of a unified .NET stack and ecosystem. The value to … continue reading
Altova announced Version 2021 of the MissionKit desktop developer tools and server software with new features and improvements. This includes a new XBRL Taxonomy Manager that provides easy, centralized taxonomy installation and management across all XBRL-enabled products, data mapping for SWIFT messages, improvements for editing in JSON Grid View, attaching files to PDF during report … continue reading
