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Roundup #61: .NET Core 3.1, AWS CDK, JetBrains Space, How Buildings Learn

Here are the things that caught my eye recently in .NET.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Announcing .NET Core 3.1 We’re excited to announce the release of .NET Core 3.1. It’s really just a small set of fixes and refinements over .NET Core 3.0, which we released just over two months ago. The most important feature is that .NET Core 3.1 is an long-term supported (LTS) release and will be supported for three years. As we’ve done in the past, we wanted to take our time before releasing… Read More »Roundup #61: .NET Core 3.1, AWS CDK, JetBrains Space, How Buildings Learn

Message Properties

Over the years I’ve learned various aspects of messaging either through using various products, reading other blogs, or unfortunately in a lot of cases, discovering them myself. One of those aspects is message properties. Specifically, (meta) data that you might want to include in your messages to solve some common problems. My plan is to dive deeper with implementation examples for each topic listed in this post. Hopefully, this post can serve as a reference point to your adventures in messaging or possibly gain some insight that provides a solution for a pain point you may (already) be experiencing. I… Read More »Message Properties

Roundup #60: gRPC vs HTTP APIs, .NET Perception, Rider, WebWindow

Here are the things that caught my eye recently in .NET.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. gRPC vs HTTP APIs ASP.NET Core now enables developers to build gRPC services. gRPC is an opinionated contract-first remote procedure call framework, with a focus on performance and developer productivity. gRPC integrates with ASP.NET Core 3.0, so you can use your existing ASP.NET Core logging, configuration, authentication patterns to build new gRPC services. Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/grpc-vs-http-apis/ Perception of .NET I thought this thread was fascinating. Very interesting to read some of the… Read More »Roundup #60: gRPC vs HTTP APIs, .NET Perception, Rider, WebWindow