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What's New in Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 7

Microsoft shipped the seventh preview of Entity Framework Core 5.0, boosting its data access technology with a factory to create DbContext instances and more. 07/28/2020
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Despite .NET Core 3 Deprecation, Newtonsoft JSON Serializer Still Rules NuGet Roost

Despite being deprecated by Microsoft in .NET Core 3.0, the wildly popular Newtonsoft.Json JSON serializer still rules the roost in the NuGet package manager system for .NET developers. 07/28/2020
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Blazor WebAssembly Targets .NET 5 in Latest ASP.NET Core Update

In announcing updates to web-focused ASP.NET Core development as part of a new .NET 5 Preview 7, Microsoft noted that Blazor WebAssembly -- the client-side component of the Blazor project that allows for C#-based web development instead of JavaScript -- now targets .NET 5. 07/27/2020
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One More .NET 5 Preview Before 'Go Live' Release Candidate

Microsoft shipped preview 7 of the milestone .NET 5 project that in November will combine all things .NET under one unifying umbrella release in the company's new open source, cross-platform direction. 07/27/2020
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Mobile Blazor Bindings Tackles Hybrid Apps

Microsoft's latest update of its Mobile Blazor Bindings project -- which expands the Blazor web-coding-with-C# model to the mobile arena for iOS, Android and other apps -- now does hybrid apps. 07/27/2020
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New Preview of WinUI 3, Native UI Platform of Windows, Fixes Stuff

Microsoft shipped preview 2 of WinUI, the UI framework that uses Fluent Design to provide a native user experience (UX) framework for both Windows Desktop (Win32) and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) applications, focusing on stability and bug fixes. 07/17/2020
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Visual Studio 2019 v16.7 Preview 4 Boosts Git, Offers Razor Editor

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7 Preview 4 arrived this week, sporting boosted Git productivity and an experimental Razor editor for creating Blazor and other projects. 07/16/2020
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Visual Studio Gets Experimental Razor Editor for Blazor, Other Projects

The latest preview of Visual Studio 2019 16.7 adds an experimental Razor editor for working with Blazor, boosting web development with C#/.NET instead of JavaScript. 07/16/2020