News
TypeScript 2.7 Now Available
TypeScript 2.7 has been released with several major features and bug fixes. Some of the highlights include support for assignment checks on class properties, fixed length tuples, and improved type inference for object literals.
Process
.NET Standard Explained: How To Share Code
In this article, we are going to talk about the thing that makes the runtimes play well together and enables them to share code. You’ll learn what .NET Standard is and what it isn’t.
Code
Top Secret .NET Handles
.NET publicly has documented 4 kinds of handles. However, besides the initial 4, there are actually more secret internal handle types that are not exposed. In this post, we’ll be talking about the dependent handle, and why it is totally awesome.
Compiled a C# Lambda Expression Just From a String
Historically, this has been possible but also quite a painful task. Today, there is a remarkably simple solution to this problem – with the help of the Roslyn compiler Nuget packages.
Tools
Useful Tricks You Might Not Know About git stash
If you have been using git for a while you might have used git stash: it’s one of the most useful features. Here are some useful tricks.
Security
Microsoft Disables Spectre Mitigations Due to Instability
In what's likely to be a long running story - Microsoft has disabled mitigations for one of the Spectre attack variants as they can cause systems to become unstable.
Community Projects
Console-based User Interface Toolkit for .NET Applications.
Miguel de Icaza introduces Gui.cs. This console-based UI toolkit is a refreshed version of one he wrote years ago for mono-curses.