News
A preview of C# 8 with Mads Torgersen
Mads Torgersen gives Channel 9 a sneak peak of what's coming in C# 8!
Breaking changes in EF Core 2.0
Including dropped support for EF Core 1.x providers, and a number of renames such as IDbContextFactory => IDesignTimeDbContextFactory.
ASP.NET Core 2.0 Features
ASP.NET Core 2.0 came out last week. This post takes a deeper dive into what's new in this release.
Process
A bunch of 3rd party, open source .NET libraries to add to your toolbox
It’s always hard to know what’s out there, so in this post, Dominique St-Amand wants to give a shout-out to some of the .NET libraries that could definitely enhance your application and when not, beef up your toolbox.
Code
Pattern Matching in C# 7.0 and things you should know about it
In this article, Kirill Miroshnichenko goes in depth through the new syntax for Pattern Matching in C# 7, and how to use it (and how it actually works) on real examples.
Source Browser
source.dot.net is an implementation of the original Source Browser by Kirill Osenkov that allows you to browse the source of .NET Core easier.
Community Projects
Refit: The automatic type-safe REST library
Refit is a library heavily inspired by Square’s Retrofit library, and it turns your REST API into a live interface.