MS announces TypeScript 4.0

“Today we are thrilled to announce the availability of TypeScript 4.0! This version of the language represents our next generation of TypeScript releases, as we dive deeper into expressivity, productivity, and scalability. If you’re not familiar with TypeScript, it’s a language that builds on top of JavaScript by adding syntax for static types.”

Source: Announcing TypeScript 4.0 | TypeScript

Here are the differences for the exact same app in React and Vue.

Sunil Sandhu created the exact same app in React and Vue. Here are the differences.: 2020 Edition: Now with React Hooks vs Vue 3 + Composition API!

Interesting look at the differences between React and Vue.

Source: I created the exact same app in React and Vue. Here are the differences.

Frink – Numbers with units of measure

As unusual programming languages go, this one actually is pretty amazing.
It adds units of measure to the number.

“One day Alan Eliasen read a fart joke and got so mad he invented a programming language. 20 years later Frink is one of the best special purpose languages for dealing with units.“But why do we need a language just for dealing with units?” Glad you asked! Intro to Units A unit is the physical property a number represents, like distance or time. We almost always are talking about SI units, or Système international.”

by Hillel Wayne

Source: The Frink is Good, the Unit is Evil • Hillel Wayne

Pulling Blobs Out of Azure Archive Storage

When storing data in Azure blob storage, the process of upload a blob is fairly straight forward, and all it takes is setting the access tier to “Archive” to move data to blob storage.

By Kevin Mack

Source: How to Pull Blobs Out of Archive Storage – CodeProject

Quo Vadis, MSMQ and .NET Core?

“Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) is currently not available for .NET Core. While other message queuing systems are generally preferred, many enterprise applications were based on MSMQ and this creates a problem for teams looking to migrate from .NET Framework to .NET Core or the upcoming .NET 5. But a recent pull request for Reference Source may change the situation.”

By Jonathan Allen

Source: MSMQ and .NET Core

OAuth 2.0 with GitHub in ASP.NET Core

Diogo Souza explains how to use OAuth2 to authenticate users for GitHub in an ASP.NET Core application.

Source: OAuth 2.0 with GitHub in ASP.NET Core – Simple Talk

Performance Improvements in .NET 5

“.NET 5 has seen a wealth of performance improvements, and even though it’s not scheduled for final release until this fall and there’s very likely to be a lot more improvements that find their way in by then, I wanted to highlight a bunch of the improvements that are already available now.”

by Stephen Toub

Source: Performance Improvements in .NET 5 | .NET Blog

C# 9 Deep Dive: Records | Dave Brock

In the previous post of this series, Dave Brock discussed the init-only features of C# 9, which allowed us to make individual properties immutable. That works great on a case-by-case basis, but the real power in leveraging C# immutability is when we can do this for custom types. This is where records shine.