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THE NEWS FROM REDMOND Announcing .NET Core 3.1 ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Core 3.1 Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.1 and Entity Framework 6.4 Visual Studio 2019 v16.4.0 Release Visual Studio 2019 v16.4.1 Release Azure IoT Tools November Update: standalone simulator for Azure IoT Edge development and more! Merge Conflict Episode 178: Building C# with Mads Torgersen - hosted by James Montemagno .NET Core 2.2 will reach End of Life on December 23, 2019 Visual Studio 2019 v16.5 Preview 1 Release Updates to .NET Core Windows Forms designer in Visual Studio 16.5 Preview 1 We made Windows Server Core container images >40% smaller Azure Functions 3.0 go-live release is now available .NET Framework December 2019 Security and Quality Rollup Pinnable Properties: Debug & Display Managed Objects YOUR Way Azure DevOps will no longer support Alternate Credentials authentication C# Language Version Planning Windows Terminal Preview v0.7 Release AROUND THE WORLD Microsoft: We’re creating a new Rust-like programming language for secure coding Announcing PostSharp 6.4: Support for .NET Core 3.0 and more AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) – Java and .NET are Now Generally Available AWS Tools for PowerShell is now generally available with version 4.0 Introducing the AWS Toolkit for Rider ReSharper Ultimate 2019.3 Release Is Out! Localization Becomes easier with the Localization Manager in ReSharper 2019.3 Rider 2019.3 Release Is Out! Visual Studio Tips Advent Calendar Azure Advent Calendar F# Advent Calendar PROJECT OF THE WEEK TwitchLib C# Twitch Chat, Whisper, API and PubSub Library. Allows for chatting, whispering, stream event subscription and channel/account modification. Supports .NET Core 2.0 Also, be sure and check out the Project of the Week archives! SHOUT-OUTS / PLUGS .NET Bytes on Twitter Matt Groves is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch Calvin Allen is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch

Folks, sorry for the delay on the release of this episode. We’re getting into the holiday season here in the United States, and we’ve had to do some traveling. This episode caps off at November 20th. Episode 13th will be recorded soon, and will fill in the gaps (slightly extended as well), so stay tuned! THE NEWS FROM REDMOND .NET Framework November 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup .NET Framework November 13, 2019, Update for .NET Framework 4.8 .NET Framework Repair Tool Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3.9 Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 Preview 5 .NET Core November 2019 Updates – 2.1.14, 2.2.8, and 3.0.1 Announcing .NET Core 3.1 Preview 3 ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Core 3.1 Preview 3 Improvements in .NET Core 3.0 for troubleshooting and monitoring distributed apps Re-imagining collaboration for Visual Studio with Live Share app casting and contacts Visual Studio for Mac: Take Control of Your IDE with Keybindings MSDN Backlog ML.NET Model Builder Updates gRPC vs HTTP APIs Building Modern Cloud Applications using Pulumi and .NET Core AROUND THE WORLD Meet WebWindow, a cross-platform webview library for .NET Core Exploring lighter alternatives to Electron for hosting a Blazor desktop app Using foreach with index in C# - Thomas Levesque’s .NET blog IHostingEnvironment vs IHostEnvironment - obsolete types in .NET Core 3.0 Edge for ARM Stir Scholarship Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise Announcing PostSharp 6.4 RC: Support for .NET Core 3.0 PROJECT OF THE WEEK Uno Platform Uno platform is for building native mobile, desktop, and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML from a single codebase. Open source and professionally supported. CodeQL Discover vulnerabilities across a codebase with CodeQL, our industry-leading semantic code analysis engine. CodeQL lets you query code as though it were data. Write a query to find all variants of a vulnerability, eradicating it forever. Then share your query to help others do the same. CodeQL is free for research and open source. Appears to support C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, and Python. SHOUT-OUTS / PLUGS .NET Bytes on Twitter Matt Groves is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch Calvin Allen is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch

THE NEWS FROM REDMOND Windows Terminal Preview 1910 Release Update Visual Studio for Mac for an improved Unity experience! .NET Framework October 2019 Cumulative Updates Introducing Microsoft Q&A Orleans 3.0 The history of the GC configs All Things Developer Tools at Microsoft Ignite Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4 Preview 2, now available Announcing Visual Studio Online Public Preview ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Core 3.1 Preview 2 Announcing .NET Core 3.1 Preview 2 Secure your Custom Domains at no cost with App Service Managed Certificates (preview) SQL Server 2019 is now generally available What’s new in Azure Cosmos DB: November 2019 Visual Studio 2019 v16.4 Preview 3 Azure services now run anywhere with new hybrid capabilities: Announcing Azure Arc Join the Visual Studio for Mac ASP.NET Core Challenge PowerShell Support in Azure Functions is now Generally Available Visual Studio 2019 v16.3.8 Announcing TypeScript 3.7 .NET Core with Juypter Notebooks – Available today | Preview 1 Announcing ML.NET 1.4 general availability (Machine Learning for .NET) AROUND THE WORLD New features in .NET Core 3.0 on Linux ReSharper Ultimate 2019.3 Starts Early Access Program! Rider 2019.3 Early Access Program is Open! Technology and Friends: Jeremy Likness on Blazor Microsoft’s Edge browser is officially coming to Linux soon Preview of AWS Tools for PowerShell v4 features PROJECT OF THE WEEK ConsoleGUI is a simple layout-driven .NET framework for creating console-based GUI applications. SHOUT-OUTS / PLUGS .NET Bytes on Twitter Matt Groves is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch Calvin Allen is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch

THE NEWS FROM REDMOND .NET Core 3.1 Preview 1 ASP.NET Core Updates in .NET Core 3.1 Preview 1 Visual Studio 2019 - Version 16.3.5 Visual Studio 2019 - Version 16.3.6 Visual Studio 2019 - Version 16.4 Preview 2 Vertical Tabs in VS (16.4 Preview 2) Key Vault references in App Service and Azure Functions PowerShell (Core) Moving to .NET Core 3.1 Preview 1 .NET Core 3.0 Concludes the .NET Framework API Porting Project Blazor Server in .NET Core 3.0 - Scenarios and Performance Fall .NET Core Survey DAPR AROUND THE WORLD Battle of the JSON Serializers C# 8 Interfaces and Default Implementations PostSharp 6.3 RTM PROJECT OF THE WEEK MediatR is a simple mediator implementation in .NET. SHOUT-OUTS / PLUGS .NET Bytes on Twitter Matt Groves is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch Calvin Allen is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch

THE NEWS FROM REDMOND NET Framework October 2019 Security and Quality Rollup Visual Studio Updates (16.3.2, 16.3.3) Deprecating Packages on Nuget.org Azure DevOps Demo Generator is now open source .NET Core Windows Forms Designer - Preview 1 .NET Foundation Survey Tweet .NET Foundation September 2019 Update AROUND THE WORLD Blazor Roadmap by Gunnar Peipman IHostLifetime by Andrew Lock alt.net Retrospective by Jeremy Miller 7 Easy Mistakes to make in C# / .NET by Chris St. Clair Postsharp 6.3 RC Baseball Hack Day 2019 C# Advent PROJECT OF THE WEEK MyTested.AspNetCore.Mvc is a fluent testing library for ASP.NET Core MVC. SHOUT-OUTS / PLUGS .NET Bytes on Twitter Matt Groves is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch Calvin Allen is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch

THE NEWS FROM REDMOND Announcing .NET Core 3.0 Release Candidate 1 ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Release Candidate 1 Release Candidate builds of Entity Framework Core 3.0 and Entity Framework 6.3 are now available Announcing .NET Core 3.0 Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.0 and Entity Framework 6.3 General Availability ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 .NET Core latest Docker tags updated to 3.0 Visual Studio 2019 16.3.0 Visual Studio 2019 16.3.1 Visual Studio 2019 16.4 Preview 1 Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.3 Announcing the RabbitMQ extension for Azure Functions GitHub Actions for deploying to Azure Functions Azure Private Link is now available in preview Open Sourcing MSVC’s STL Announcing F# 4.7 Cascadia Code .NET Conf 2019 Videos AROUND THE WORLD NuGet Package Manager comes to Visual Studio for Mac Developing Xamarin Applications in Rider .NET Core 3 gRPC Immediate Access to GitHub Actions Beta PROJECT OF THE WEEK Emulating a PlayStation 1 (PSX) entirely with C# and .NET ANNOUNCEMENTS C# Advent 2019 SHOUT-OUTS / PLUGS .NET Bytes on Twitter Matt Groves is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch Calvin Allen is: Tweeting on Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch

Welcome back, folks! We’re a couple days late on this one, please forgive us :) We’ve also brought in someone to do the editing for us - so, Matt and Calvin will record, and then hand off the files to a professional for editing. Please let us know if you have any comments / suggestions, either on the content, or the editing! Links: New Visual Studio Terminal .NET Core 3 Preview 9 ASP.NET Core 3 Preview 9 / Blazor Updates Entity Framework Core 3 Preview 9 / Entity Framework 6.3 Preview 9 .NET Standard Versioning Grid ML.NET 1.4 Preview & Model Builder Microsoft Azure Cloud Regions in Germany Azure CosmosDB v1 SDKs Retiring Azure Functions 3.0 Azure Functions PowerShell developer guide Frank Boucher's Azure Function - Subscription Cleaner Refactoring made easy with IntelliCode! Project of the Week ASP.NET OAuth Providers Random Shoutouts / Plugs Frank Boucher on Twitter .NET Bytes on Twitter Matt Groves is: Tweeting On Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch Calvin Allen is: Tweeting On Twitter Live Streaming on Twitch

Welcome back, folks! Matt was on the road at a conference during this recording, so unfortunately his audio is a little on the “not so great” side. I tried lots of magic, some voodoo, and even hired a warlock to see what he could do, but alas - this was as good as we could get it. Please accept our apologies (if not, I still have the warlock on retainer). Links: .NET Framework August 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup .NET Conf 2019 Teaser Get more fresh content on Visual Studio’s YouTube channel TechBash 2019 TypeScript 3.6 Release New and improved NuGet Search is here! Redesigning Configuration Refresh for Azure App Configuration .NET Core and systemd Getting Started with GitHub Actions in Visual Studio GitHub Actions Visual Studio Tips and Tricks: Increasing your Productivity for .NET The PowerShell you know and love now with a side of Visual Studio SQL Server 2019 release candidate is now available Windows Terminal Preview v0.4 Release Microsoft Terminal on GitHub Microsoft Terminal in the Store Random Shoutouts / Plugs .NET Bytes on Twitter Matt Groves on Twitter Calvin Allen on Twitter Michael Jolley on Twitch Michael Jolley on Twitter That Conference

Welcome back, folks! We are sincerely sorry for the hiatus, but here’s our “getting back on the horse” episode. It’s a little light as we work our way back into the habit, but we hope you enjoy. Links: .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8 Visual Studio 2019 - 16.3 Preview 2 / Visual Studio for Mac 8.3 Preview 2 EF Core 3.0 Preview 8 / EF 6.3 Preview 8 New NuGet Search MSDN Magazine Shutting Down Synchronized Drawing with Xamarin.Forms, SkiaSharp, and Couchbase Mobile Random Shoutouts / Plugs .NET Bytes on Twitter Matt Groves on Twitter Calvin Allen on Twitter Jason Gilmore on Twitter

Links Reddit Threads r/csharp r/dotnet Razor Components Rename Visual Studio 2019 - 16.0.0 - GA Release Visual Studio 2019 - 16.0.1 - Update Visual Studio 2019 - 16.1.0 - Preview 1 Visual Studio 2017 - 15.9.11 - Update Visual Studio '.vsconfig' Stack Overflow 2019 Survey Results ML.NET 1.0 RC ASP.NET Core DDoS - .NET Core 2.1 and 2.2 PowerShell 6.2 GA Release Comparing gRPC with HTTP APIs F# 4.6 GA Release .NET Core 3.0 Worker Service Template .NET Foundation Unpopular Tech Opinion Matt proclaims that remote / distrubuted teams can, absolutely, participate in an Agile environment. Calvin agrees. Do you agree or disagree? Let us know! Project of the Week! Dapper GitHub Random Shoutouts / Plugs .NET Bytes on Twitter Matt Groves on Twitter Calvin Allen on Twitter Dustin Metzgar on Twitter Manning Books Matt Groves on Twitch Calvin Allen on Twitch Kevin Griffin on Twitter Guy Royce on Twitter PetaPoco Thank you, Manning Publications, for sponsoring the show! Winners of the free eBook Contest Florien Schall Yogesh Angadi The contest continues with two more free eBook codes for, ".NET Core in Action", on the next episode! To get 40% off of, ".NET Core in Action", use the coupon code, "netcore40", during checkout!

At one point in the podcast, Calvin mentions an online tool for leveling the volume for audio files (like a podcast), and he couldn't remember the name! It's Auphonic. Thanks to the folks at Coding Blocks for bringing this to our attention Links: Reddit Thread Python Bytes Visual Studio 2019 RC2 Release Notes .NET Core Security Updates Matt's AOP Book Andrew Lock's ASP.NET Core Book Andrew Lock's Twitter PostSharp 6.1 Release .NET Foundation Candidates .NET Foundation Membership Jon Galloway .NET Foundation Meetup CONDG Meetup 2018 C# Advent dotnet-format Blazor 0.9 Release WASM Matt's Unpopular Tech Opinion .NET Core 3 Preview 3 ASP.NET Core 3 Preview 3 gRPC gRPC for .NET WCF WCF on .NET Core TypeScript in Azure Functions Invoke-SqlCmd Project of the Week! Wyam.io Dave Glick - Blog / Twitter Dave's Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast Interview Random Shoutouts / Plugs .NET Bytes on Twitter Matt Groves on Twitter Calvin Allen on Twitter .NET Subreddit JavaScript & Friends JavaScript & Friends CFP

At one point in the podcast, Calvin mentions an online tool for leveling the volume for audio files (like a podcast), and he couldn't remember the name! It's Auphonic. Thanks to the folks at Coding Blocks for bringing this to our attention Links: Reddit Thread Python Bytes Visual Studio 2019 RC2 Release Notes .NET Core Security Updates Matt's AOP Book Andrew Lock's ASP.NET Core Book Andrew Lock's Twitter PostSharp 6.1 Release .NET Foundation Candidates .NET Foundation Membership Jon Galloway .NET Foundation Meetup CONDG Meetup 2018 C# Advent dotnet-format Blazor 0.9 Release WASM Matt's Unpopular Tech Opinion .NET Core 3 Preview 3 ASP.NET Core 3 Preview 3 gRPC gRPC for .NET WCF WCF on .NET Core TypeScript in Azure Functions Invoke-SqlCmd Project of the Week! Wyam.io Dave Glick - Blog / Twitter Dave's Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast Interview Random Shoutouts / Plugs .NET Bytes on Twitter Matt Groves on Twitter Calvin Allen on Twitter .NET Subreddit JavaScript & Friends JavaScript & Friends CFP

Links: .NET Core 1.0/1.1 EOL Announcement WPF / Winforms going Open Source .NET Core 3.0 / .NET Framework 4.8 Visual Studio 2019 Release C# 8 Blazor / Razor Components Live Streaming: Ed Charbeneau - State has Changed Jeff Fritz - Fritz and Friends Brendan Enrick - DevChatter Steve Smith - Ardalis Project of the Week: Using Up For Grabs.NET FluentMigrator Find Us @DotNetBytes @_CalvinAllen @mgroves Other Mentions: Stir Trek Momentum Dev Con Discover.NET (Dave Glick) Cross Cutting Concerns (Blog / Podcast)