Episode 13: News from November 21st, 2019 through December 11th, 2019

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!

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