News from December 11th, 2019 through January 22nd, 2020

THE NEWS

FROM REDMOND

.NET Conf: Focus on Blazor
.NET Conf: Focus on Xamarin
Announcing Experimental Mobile Blazor Bindings
Get Moving with Xamarin.Forms 4.4
Xamarin Goes Dual Screen
Best Practices - Async / Await
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4 Preview 4 is now available
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4 is now available
Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4.2
Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4.3
Modernizing Find in Files
SQL Server 2019 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 now Generally Available
$select Enhancement in ASP.NET Core OData
An Introduction to DataFrame
An Introduction to System.Threading.Channels
Announcing the PowerShell 7.0 Release Candidate
Announcing TypeScript 3.8 Beta
ConfigureAwait FAQ
ASP.NET Core Diagnostic Scenarios - David Fowler
Windows Terminal Preview v0.8 Release
.NET Core January 2020 Updates – 2.1.15, 3.0.2, and 3.1.1
.NET Framework January Security and Quality Rollup
The GitHub for Android beta is here

AROUND THE WORLD

.NET Foundation - Oren Novotny - New Executive Director
Uno Platform 2.0 RELOADED - General Availability, Hot Reload and more!
Introducing T4 Text Template Support in Rider 2019.3
ReSharper Ultimate 2019.3.1 Hotfix Is Out!
Rider 2019.3.1 Hotfix Is Out!
ReSharper Ultimate 2019.2.4 and Rider 2019.2.4 Bug Fixes Are Here!
Project Model Updates in Rider 2019.3
Webinar – Background Tasks Without a Separate Service: Hangfire for ASP.NET
Couchbase

PROJECT OF THE WEEK

Building A New Win 3.1 App in 2019 Part 1: Slack Client

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

LGR - Lazy Game Review
Benj Edwards
.NET Bytes on Twitter
Matt Groves is:
- Tweeting on Twitter
- Live Streaming on Twitch
Calvin Allen is:
- Tweeting on Twitter
- Live Streaming on Twitch

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