Join the Microsoft .NET Data team to get answers to many frequently asked questions about EF Core. For example:

What's the difference between EF Core and EF6?

What NuGet packages to I need to install to use EF Core?

Should I always use no-tracking queries?

Why does EF Core sometimes ignore Includes?

What's wrong with using owned types for value objects?

Should I create a repository over EF Core?

Why does the in-memory database not work in my tests?

How do I call stored procedures from EF Core?

How do I see the SQL for a LINQ query?

Featuring: Arthur Vickers (@ajcvickers), Shay Rojansky (@shayrojansky), Jiachen Jiang (@jiachenjiang_)

Join us as we show what it's like to build a .NET 7 Blazor app using both new and currently experimental features.

Community Links:

https://www.theurlist.com/aspnet-community-standup-2023-01

Featuring: Daniel Roth, Jon Galloway, Mackinnon Buck

Are you interested in F# but don't quite see how it fits in your solutions? In this week's episode, Onur Gumus joins the panel to show how F# shines in scenarios like stateless programming and functional composition.

Featuring: Onur Gumus (@onurgumusdev)

#dotnet #fsharp

📆Welcome to our December .NET Monthly Roundup with Jon Galloway! In just 3 minutes, Jon breaks down the latest news from the month of December 2022 that .NET developers need to know.

🔗All links: https://aka.ms/dnmr-2212

➡️ Top .NET Blog Posts of 2022 - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/top-dotnet-blog-posts-of-2022/

➡️ Top .NET Videos & Live Streams of 2022 - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/top-dotnet-videos-live-streams-of-2022/

➡️ Build Your Own Podcast App with .NET 7, Blazor, and .NET MAUI - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/build-your-own-podcast-app-with-dotnet-blazor-and-dotnet-maui/

➡️ Accelerate ML.NET training with Intel oneDAL - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/accelerate-ml-net-training-with-intel-onedal/

➡️ Polyglot Notebooks - Now with .NET 7, C# 11, and F# 7 Support! - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/polyglot-notebooks-december-2022-release/

➡️ Migrating from ASP.NET to ASP.NET Core with Project Migrations Part 5 - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/migrating-from-asp-net-to-asp-net-core-part-5/

➡️ Try out Visual Studio 2022 version 17.5 Preview 2 - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/try-out-visual-studio-2022-17-5-preview-2/

➡️ What’s new in Visual Studio productivity - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/whats-new-in-visual-studio-productivity/

➡️ Dev tunnels in Visual Studio for ASP.NET Core projects - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/dev-tunnels-in-visual-studio-for-asp-net-core-projects/

➡️ Write markdown without leaving Visual Studio - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/write-markdown-without-leaving-visual-studio/

➡️ Adding new files just got a lot faster - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/adding-new-files-just-got-a-lot-faster/

➡️ Sticky Scroll now in preview - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/sticky-scroll-now-in-preview/

➡️ The top programming languages | The State of the Octoverse - https://octoverse.github.com/2022/top-programming-languages

➡️ What's new in the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/whats-new-in-the-dotnet-maui-community-toolkit/

➡️ Top 5 .NET Nuggets of 2022 - https://platform.uno/blog/top-5-net-nuggets-of-2022/

Join Maddy Montaquila and David Ortinau for a recap of all the .NET MAUI 2022 greatness and how to get started with .NET MAUI to reach all of your 2023 goals!

Community Links:

https://www.theurlist.com/maui-standup-jan23

Featuring: Maddy Montaquila (@maddymontaquila), David Ortinau (@davidortinau)

Join our teams to hear what we've been working on for WPF and WinForms. And also, what improvements we are planning for upgrading tooling from .NET Framework to .NET 6 and 7

Featuring: Olia Gavrysh (@oliagavrysh), Fiza Azmi

The plan has been published for EF Core 8 and other data access work in .NET 8. This includes work in five major themes:

- Highly requested features

- Cloud native and devices

- Performance

- Visual tooling

- Developer experience

Join the .NET Data Team for a discussion of what’s in and what’s out, and to get your questions answered.

Featuring: Arthur Vickers (@ajcvickers), Shay Rojansky (@shayrojansky)

Find out our early plans for Blazor in .NET 8 and let us know what you think!

Community Links: https://www.theurlist.com/blazor-community-links

Featuring: Daniel Roth (@danroth27), Jon Galloway (@jongalloway), Tanay Parikh (@_TanayParikh), Mackinnon Buck

Many ASP.NET developers are familiar with the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, but have you ever wanted to use the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern in your web apps? In this week's episode, community MVP Tomas Herceg joins the panel to show us DotVVM, an open-source MVVM framework for ASP.NET!

Featuring: Tomas Herceg (@hercegtomas)

Managed languages architect, Mads Torgersen, joins us this month to talk about C# 11, ongoing development in C#, and might give us a glimpse of what's in store for C# 12. We'll discuss the new features in the language and what ideas we're exploring now.

Community Links:

https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csharp-11

Featuring:

Bill Wagner (@billwagner), Immo Landwerth (@terrajobst), Mads Torgersen (@MadsTorgersen)