In this episode, Richard Lander and Jose Perez sit down with Christos to talk about the work they've been doing to add support for IoT development with .NET Core. [01:40] - Exploring IoT devices[03:18] - .NET Core and IoT[05:12] - Understanding the interaction[08:12] - Goals for .NET and IoT[11:13] - Supported Libraries[12:38] - GPIO Demo Useful Links .NET Core IoT librariesCross-Platform IoT Programming with .NET Core 3.0 .NET Core Guide

Join James Montemagno & Abel Wang in this installment of DevOps for Mobile Developers where they discuss exactly how to get your source code into source control. They show off how Visual Studio can help manage your source code with Azure DevOps, GitHub, or any other git repository. They also walk through setting up your first developer build for iOS and Android inside of App Center. Show Links: Learn More: DevOps for MobileAzure DevOpsApp CenterGitHubDocs: App Center OverviewDocs: App Center BuildUseful Links:Learn more about Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms, & Cross-platform developmentXamarin Developer Center & BlogMicrosoft Learn Self-Guided TrainingCreate a Free Account (Azure)Xamarin Developers YouTube ChannelXamarin on Twitter

Join James Montemagno & Abel Wang in this installment of DevOps for Mobile Developers where they discuss what exactly is DevOps when it comes to mobile development. What are the unique challenges that mobile developers have to overcome and how can tools and services from Microsoft provide a full end to end solution for developers. Tune in to learn more. Show Links: Learn More: DevOps for MobileAzure DevOpsApp CenterGitHubUseful Links:Learn more about Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms, & Cross-platform developmentXamarin Developer Center & BlogMicrosoft Learn Self-Guided TrainingCreate a Free Account (Azure)Xamarin Developers YouTube ChannelXamarin on Twitter

Many projects have used the EDMX files and the EF Designer to generate their models with Entity Framework. However, Entity Framework Core has not added support for EDMX generation. So what do you if you want to port your EF projects to EF Core? In this episode, Entity Framework PM Diego Vega joins Christos to give us a thorough walkthrough of porting an Entity Framework EDMX model over to Entity Framework Core [01:06] - Why would I want to move?[03:18] - Reviewing a sample EDMX model[08:10] - Porting the hard way[09:29] - Porting the easier way[13:44] - Using the EF Core Power tools[18:24] - Exploring inheritance Useful Links What's new in EF Core 3Migrating from EF 6 to EF CorePorting from EF 6 to EF CoreEF Core Power tools

In this episode, Maoni (CLR) and Mukul (Bing) talk about the new GC profiling APIs in .NET Core 3.0 and how to take advantage of them. Useful Links Get started with .netMemory Management and garbage collection in .NET

In this episode, Rich sits down with Immo to explore how the new new nullable reference types feature works for library and framework developers. [00:00] Intro[00:54] What are nullable reference types?[03:46] Demo time![07:13] What's flow analysis?[11:48] How does Debug.Assert work?[13:17] Nullability and generics[19:42] What process was used to annotate the framework?[24:17] How powerful is the compiler analysis?[27:33] What's the philosophy on annotating interfaces and virtuals?[31:42] How do I enable nullable reference types?aka.ms/nullable-blog

In this episode, Maoni (CLR) and Mukul (Bing) talk about frozen objects in .NET Core 3.0 and how you can try it out in your scenario. Useful Links Get started with .netMemory Management and garbage collection in .NET

Durable Entities is a new feature that will be available in Durable Functions v2, and will enable a new class of stateful patterns for Azure Functions. In this episode, Chris Gillum and Sebastian Burckhardt sit down with Jeremy to give us the rundown on Durable Entities. They talk about the differences compared to the actor model, invoking entities via HTTP, and more. Learn more at aka.ms/durablev2 [02:03] - What are Durable Entities?[06:16] - How do Durable Entities compare to Actors?[08:57] - Reviewing the function based and class based models[13:15] - How to invoke entities directly via HTTP?[19:44] - What are the future plans?Useful Links Durable Functions documentationIntroducing Durable Entities for Serverless StateDurable Functions on GitHub

In this episode, Maoni (CLR) and Mukul (Bing) talk about large page support in .NET Core 3.0 and the performance improvement in the Bing scenario. Useful Links Get started with .NET CoreMemory management and garbage collection in .NET

Bindings in Azure Functions allows you to declaratively connect another resource to your serverless function as input or output. In this episode, Matías Quaranta takes us step by step through the fundamentals of creating a custom binding, and also how to incorporate it in an Azure Functions project. [03:44] - Step 1 Defining the attribute for the binding[05:38] - Step 2 Creating a service connector[06:37] - Step 3 Creating the collector and binding context[08:52] - Step 4 Gluing everything together[13:21] - Step 5 Activating the custom extension[14:28] - Using the custom binding[19:24] - Where to get the codeUseful Links Azure Functions triggers and bindings conceptsWalkthrough and code samples