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Xamarin.Forms 4.3 is live! Introducing CollectionView

October 24, 2019 Oct 24, 2019 10/24/19

Shikha Kaul

Today we’re incredibly pleased to announce the stable release of Xamarin.Forms 4.3.0. This release marks the removal of the experimental flag from CollectionView as it moves into stable status. Along with this, comes a number of enhancements and contributions from the community. Including SourceLink support, the ability to display HTML on ...

October 2019 unified Azure SDK preview

October 22, 2019 Oct 22, 2019 10/22/19

Shikha Kaul

Welcome back to another release of the unified Azure Data client libraries. For the most part, the API surface areas of the SDKs have been stabilized based on your feedback. Thank you to everyone who has been submitting issues on GitHub and keep the feedback coming...

Upcoming SameSite Cookie Changes in ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core

October 22, 2019 Oct 22, 2019 10/22/19

Shikha Kaul

SameSite is a 2016 extension to HTTP cookies intended to mitigate cross site request forgery (CSRF). The original design was an opt-in feature which could be used by adding a new SameSite property to cookies. It had two values, Lax and Strict. Setting the value to Lax indicated the cookie should be sent on navigation within the same site, or ...

Fall .NET Core Survey

October 22, 2019 Oct 22, 2019 10/22/19

Shikha Kaul

It’s been a busy time for .NET Core – we just shipped 3.0, and are currently working on a few updates for v3.1 (due in November.) As we turn our attention to .NET Core 5.0, we want to take a step back and see what you are doing with .NET Core and how we can make it even better...

What Windows 10, version 1909 Means for Developers

October 22, 2019 Oct 22, 2019 10/22/19

Shikha Kaul

As stated in this article, Windows 10, version 1909 is a scoped set of features for select performance improvements, enterprise features and quality enhancements. Developers should be aware of this release, but no action is necessary at this time...