The week in .NET - .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, Entity Framework Core 2.0, Visual Studio 2017 Update 3, enterprise Entity Framework Core in Boston, and links!

.NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, Entity Framework 2.0, and Visual Studio 2017 Update 3 launched!

This is a week to celebrate for the .NET community, as .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, and Entity Framework 2.0 shipped! We’re also getting an update to Visual Studio 2017 with lots of improvements for .NET Core developers. Read the announcement posts!

Announcing .NET Core 2.0 by Rich Lander.
.NET Core 2.0 Released! (video) by Scott Hunter.
Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.0 by Jeffrey T. Fritz.
Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.0 by Diego B Vega.
Announcing .NET Standard 2.0 by Immo Landwerth.
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3 Release Notes by Visual Studio Team.
Visual Studio 2017 for Mac by Visual Studio Team.

User group meeting of the week: Entity Framework Core for Enterprise Applications in Boston

What do you do when your simple Entity Framework app isn’t so simple anymore? The entity relationships are starting to get complex. You’re getting worried about performance problems. Can you even use Entity Framework in a high-performance, scalable web application?

In this session, Benjamin Day will go beyond the simple Code First entity framework cases and get into more complex class designs and relationships. He’ll talk about the sticky issues around lazy-loading, concurrency, cascading deletes, occasional connectivity, and performance testing. Plus, along the way he’ll talk strategy for DevOps, stored procedures, unit testing, and incremental deployment, too.

Join the DevBoston user group on Tuesday, August 22 in Burlington.

.NET

Announcing .NET Core 2.0 by Rich Lander.
.NET Core 2.0 Released! (video) by Scott Hunter.
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3 Release Notes by Visual Studio Team.
Visual Studio 2017 for Mac by Visual Studio Team.
Announcing .NET Standard 2.0 by Immo Landwerth.
NuGet Fall 2017 Roadmap by Unni Ravindranathan.
.NET Framework August 2017 Security and Quality Rollup by Rich Lander.
Hello WebAssembly! by Miguel de Icaza.
.NET and WebAssembly – Is this the future of the front-end? by Scott Hanselman.
Akka.NET has Joined the .NET Foundation by Petabridge.
Microsoft Graph, OneNote and UWP by Raamakrishnan A..
.NET Core 2.0 Has Arrived by James Singleton.
How to choose the right .NET technology or “learn to stop worrying and love NetStandard2.0” by Matthew Adams.
.NET Core Test Explorer for Visual Studio Code by formulahendry.
How to use a custom NuGet feed in Visual Studio 2017 by Carl-Hugo Marcotte.
dotnet-script 0.11 out – with inline Nuget support by Filip W.

ASP.NET

Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.0 by Jeffrey T. Fritz.
Web Applications with ASP.NET Core Architecture and Patterns guidance by Cesar de la Torre.
ASP.NET Core Web–Current Principle by Mark Downie.
Design Patterns: Asp.Net Core Web API, services, and repositories Part 1: Introduction by Carl-Hugo Marcotte.
Design Patterns: Asp.Net Core Web API, services, and repositories | Part 2: Dependency Injection by Carl-Hugo Marcotte.
Why we do not have a TagHelper Interceptor? by Hisham Bin Ateya.
Country Tag Helper by Andrei Ignat.
ASP.NET Core: Converting C# enums to JavaScript by Gunnar Peipman.
Auditing ASP.NET MVC Actions by Phil Haack.
GraphiQL in ASP.NET Core by Joseph Woodward.
Introduction to the ApiExplorer in ASP.NET Core by Andrew Lock.
Testing Logging in ASPNET Core by Steve Smith.
The Monsters Weekly – Episode 103 – Setting Version Numbers on a Build Server by ASP.NET Monsters.
Redirect HTTP to HTTPS when using ASP.NET Core in Web App on Linux – Azure App Service by Gabe Shapiro.
ASP.NET Core 2.0 Stripping away cross-cutting concerns by Tim Seaward.
ASP.NET Core – ConfigureServices vs Configure by CodingBlast.
Angular Configuration using ASP.NET Core settings by Damien Bowden.
4 Tips For Blazing Fast ASP.NET Core Applications by Dustin Ewers.
Redis-based distributed cache in ASP.NET by Alexander Tsvetkov.

C#

Getting Started with C# 7 by James Montemagno.
The innocuous code that tripped me by Ayende Rahien.
Practical C# – Sequence Equality by Andrea Angella.
Expression Bodied Members In C# by Sandeep Shekhawat.
Tuple In C# 7.0 by Sandeep Shekhawat.
String interpolation in C# 6.0 by Vaibhav Gawali.

F#

F# and .NET Core Roadmap Update by Phillip Carter.

There is more content available this week in F# Weekly. If you want to see more F# awesomeness, please check it out!

Xamarin

Mono 5.2.0 Release Notes by Mono Project.
Upgrading Mono’s HttpWebRequest by Miguel de Icaza.
Sharing a Realm via a QR code using ZXing by Pieter Nijs.
Azure Active Directory Authentication with Vittorio Bertocci by The Xamarin Show.
Xamarin Alpha Release: 15.4 Alpha 1 by Bri Brothers.
Xamarin Stable Release: 15.3 by Bri Brothers.
Xamarin.Forms and Realm: CRUD Example by Almir Vuk.
Live Coding iOS and Android with Xamarin: Episodes 1 and 2 by Lee Richardson.
Embeddinator-4000 for Android, iOS: Available on NuGet by Jonathan Peppers.
TapGestureRecognizer in Xamarin.Forms for Android by Gerald Versluis.
A Beginner’s Guide for Contributing to Xamarin.Forms by David Ortinau.
Exploring Android’s Bottom Navigation View by James Montemagno.
Validation in Xamarin.Forms Enterprise Apps by David Britch.
Easily Clean Bin/Obj Folders by James Montemagno.
Configuring Open With in Visual Studio for Mac 7.0 by Matt Ward.
Visual Studio Mobile Center: Solving a Problem with Package Restore by Kevin Ford.
Using PKCE with IdentityServer from a Xamarin Client by David Britch.
Gorilla Player for Xamarin Forms was released! by Seba Cabrera.
How to setup Crash Analytics in Visual Studio Mobile Center! by Visual Studio Mobile Center.
Exrin Isolates by Adam Pedley.
Feature Grouping Code by Adam Pedley.
Page Object Pattern In Xamarin UITest by Adam Pedley.
Reactive Extensions And Exrin MVVM Framework In Xamarin.Forms by Adam Pedley.
Xamarin.Forms Async Task On Startup by Adam Pedley.
Image Entry in Xamarin Forms by Charlin Agramonte.

Azure

Azure Service Bus .NET Standard Client GA by Justin Conway.
Application Insights – Track HTTP Referer by Gérald Barré.
Service Fabric Getting Started Sample for .NET by Vaclav Turecek.
Service Fabric Performance and Scalability samples for .NET by Abhishek Ram.
Step by step: .Net Core and Azure Search by Robert Bermejo.

UWP

Binding to the Window Title in UWP by Nico Vermeir.
Adventures in Desktop App Conversion by Peter Freeman Foot.
Loading and Loaded in UWP by Robert Hedgate.

Data

Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.0 by Diego B Vega.
Entity Framework Core: History / Audit table by Gérald Barré.

Game development

UnityScript’s long ride off into the sunset by Richard Fine.
Indie Up! The First Wave of Creators Program Games Are Available Now by Chris Charla.
C# Extension Methods by lordubbe.
4 Ways to Find Your Mouse Click in World Space by Board to Bits Games.
#8 Make an Air Hockey Game in Unity – LOCAL MULTIPLAYER – Tutorial for Beginners by Reso Coder.

And this is it for this week!

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