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  Vendors Update Controls for .NET Core 3.1, Blazor

  This week saw two third-party vendors of dev tools -- UX and UI toolkits and controls -- release new offerings that include support for two of Microsoft's main open source frameworks, the cross-platform .NET Core 3.1 and Blazor, which allows for creating browser-based web applications with C# instead of JavaScript.
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  C++ Is Focus of New Visual Studio 2019 v16.7 Preview 2

  C++ development is a focus point of the new Visual Studio 2019 v16.7 Preview 2, featuring a slew of tweaks and improvements touching upon remote SSH connections, IntelliSense support and more.
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  Clustering Non-Numeric Data Using C#

  Clustering non-numeric -- or categorial -- data is surprisingly difficult, but it's explained here by resident data scientist Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research, who provides all the code you need for a complete system using an algorithm based on a metric called category utility (CU), a measure how much information you gain by clustering.
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  So What's Up with Microsoft's (and Everyone Else's) Love of Rust?

  Microsoft already stewards several popular programming languages -- C#, TypeScript, F# -- so what's up with its love of Rust, along with the rest of the world?
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  C# Steps Up Programming Language Popularity Ladder

  Microsoft's C# programming language climbed a year-over-year notch on the TIOBE Index, which measures popularity among developers.