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Did you know? Though these terms are often used interchangeably, there is a difference between a parameter and an argument. A parameter is only the definition of something that’s passed into a function and is found in the function's signature. Parameters usually define the name and type of allowed for the argument to use. The argument is the actual value that’s passed into the function in calling code.  .NET news Through December most of the .NET folks at Microsoft headquarters take time off for Christmas, New Year, and other winter holidays. There’s been no new releases from Mi

Did you know? Defects in software are called “bugs” because of an early incident in computing in which  Dr. Grace Hopper found an actual moth to be the culprit of mysterious but consistent error messages. Do you have a fun computing trivia tidbit? Share it with us so we can add it to a future newsletter.  .NET news Announcing ML.NET 2.0.NET 7 is Available TodayAnnouncing ASP.NET Core in .NET 7Announcing .NET MAUI for .NET 7 General AvailabilityAnnouncing F# 7Welcome to C# 11Entity Framework Core 7 (EF7) is available todayWhat’s new in Windows Forms in .NET 7.0What’s new

Did you know? When C# was introduced in 2000, it came with a language construct called “delegate”. It’s kind of a lost art, but it still is a great alternative to interfaces to make code more testable. Whenever a particular delegate is expected, it also accepts a method with the same signature, or a lambda.  .NET news Announcing .NET MAUI support for .NET 7 Release Candidate 2What’s new in System.Text.Json in .NET 7Announcing .NET MAUI support for Xcode 14 and iOS 16Announcing Entity Framework Core 7 RC2: JSON ColumnsAnnouncing .NET 7 Release Candidate 2ASP.NET Core updates in .

Did you know? According to Statista, as of July 2022 there are 4.66 billion active internet users worldwide. That’s 59.5% of the global population. Of this total, 92.6% have accessed the internet via mobile devices.  .NET news Arm64 Performance Improvements in .NET 7Experimental WebTransport over HTTP/3 support in Kestrel.NET MAUI in .NET 7 Release Candidate 1ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 7 Release Candidate 1Announcing .NET 7 Release Candidate 1Announcing Entity Framework 7 Release Candidate 1.NET now on Windows Package Manager.NET 7 comes to Azure Functions & Visual Studio

Did you know? As of 2020, 64.82% of searches on Google ended without clicking to another web property. People stay in the top half of the first page of search results. .NET news Announcing .NET Framework 4.8.1.NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04C# 11 preview: generic math, required members, and moreAnnouncing built-in container support for the .NET SDKAnnouncing SynapseML for .NET – Large Scale ML with a Simple APIAnnouncing Entity Framework 7 Preview 7: Interceptors!ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 7 Preview 7Announcing .NET 7 Preview 7 Programing tutorials and tips  .NET tutorials

Did you know? ASP.NET was originally called ASP, which stands for Active Server Pages. It was released in December 1996 and was the pre-.NET version of this popular web framework. Read more about the history of Active Server Pages on Wikipedia.   .NET news .NET July 2022 Updates – .NET 6.0.7 and .NET Core 3.1.27.NET Core 3.1 will reach End of Support on December 13, 2022Announcing Entity Framework Core 7 Preview 6: Performance EditionASP.NET Core updates in .NET 7 Preview 6Announcing .NET 7 Preview 6Announcing Rate Limiting for .NET Featured content  We’d like to

Did you know? Atari celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. While the organization has changed hands a few times in 50 years, the original Atari, Inc., was founded in Sunnyvale, California, in 1972 and is currently owned by Atari SA. Atari made video games in the home a popular pastime. Happy anniversary Atari!  .NET news .NET Foundation Summit 2022Performance Improvements in .NET MAUI.NET 7 Preview 5 – Generic MathASP.NET Core updates in .NET 7 Preview 5Announcing Entity Framework 7 Preview 5Announcing .NET 7 Preview 5Introducing the ML.NET Text Classification API Program

Did you know? The domain name www.youtube.com was registered on February 14, 2005. The first video was uploaded on April 23, 2005 titled Me at the zoo, which has over 230 million views as of June 2022. .NET news Announcing .NET 7 Preview 4ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 7 Preview 4Announcing Entity Framework 7 Preview 4.NET MAUI Release Candidate 3Announcing gRPC JSON transcoding for .NETRegular Expression Improvements in .NET 7What’s new with ML.NET Automated ML (AutoML) and toolingIntroducing .NET MAUI – One Codebase, Many Platforms Featured content  We’d like to thank Dani

Did you know? Screensavers were introduced to stop images getting burned into your PC screens. It’s true! Older screens weren't nearly as nice as they are now. If you left your monitor on for long periods of time and left a wallpaper or program visible, it would burn traces of it into the screen. Much like when you look directly at a light and then look away. .NET news C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more!Announcing .NET 7 Preview 3.NET MAUI Release CandidateASP.NET Core updates in .NET 7 Preview 3Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 14CoreWCF 1.0 has been Release

Did you know? ReSharper once existed as a standalone IDE built with WinForms, in addition to being a plugin to Visual Studio. If you’re interested in ReSharper’s and Rider’s inner workings, Maarten Balliauw has a great talk on the subject.  .NET news Updates for spring in the Northern Hemisphere/fall in the Southern Hemisphere:  Announcing .NET 7 Preview 2 – The New, ‘New’ ExperienceASP.NET Core updates in .NET 7 Preview 2Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 14.NET 5.0 will reach End of Support on May 08, 2022 Featured content  We’d like to thank Nick Chapsas for curating this

Did you know? On Windows, it's not possible to create a folder named "con". Windows will display a dialog saying "The specified device name is invalid". That's because “con” is a reserved word dating back to MS-DOS.  .NET news Performance improvements in ASP.NET Core 6Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 12 (Latest Preview)State of the Windows Forms Designer for .NET ApplicationsAnnouncing the Plan for EF7.NET 6 Networking Improvements Featured content  We’d like to thank Layla Porter for curating this month’s featured content! Layla is a Developer Advocate at VMware Tanzu. S

Did you know? Microsoft used the name C# in 1988. This language had nothing in common with the C# of today as it was a variant of the C language, and was discontinued. It wasn't until 2002 that Microsoft released the language named C# that we know today, with the release of the .NET Framework 1.0. .NET news December is a slow news month on most years, but here are a few highlights to check out. Announcing the Plan for EF7.NET 6 Networking ImprovementsWhat’s new for gRPC in .NET 6.NET Conf 2021 Recap – Videos, Slides, Demos, and More Tutorials and articles Goodies from the mo