(Debasis Saha) In the year 2016, Microsoft introduced a new framework called .Net Core. Basically, it is not an updated version of the existing .net framework. Microsoft developed this framework as a totally new framework.

(Srinath M S) To join the objects in a collection, such as a string array, with a common delimiter like a comma or another character, is quite easy with the string.join method.

Peter Groenewegen) Only a few years back Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) was the way to do communication on the Microsoft platform based on SOAP protocol.

(Hannes DuPreez) It is quite easy and not a lot of work to use the TinyURL API to shorten burdensome URLs. Examples are in both C# and VB.NET.

(Bipin Joshi) ASP.NET Core MVC uses certain conventions when it comes to naming the controllers. Although these defaults work as expected in many cases, at times you may want to take charge of the controller naming.

(Rich Lander) Both the Windows and Linux ecosystems have a swath of battle-hardened performance analysis and investigation tools. But up until recently, developers and platform engineers could use none of these tools with .NET applications on Linux.

(Ben Nadel) Yesterday, while experimenting with recursive components in Angular 6.1.10, I was briefly confused by the fact that recursive nesting of a single component required a little bit of CSS chicanery in order to prevent CSS styling from bleeding down into descendant nodes.

(Mike Brind) Razor Class libraries (RCLs) were introduced in ASP.NET Core 2.1 as a way to package and distribute UI components to be referenced and consumed within a host application.

(Peter Vogel) As I discussed in an earlier column, SQL Server keeps a plan cached for each query it sees (assuming the query requires planning in the first place, of course).

(Robert Green) This is the first of a four part series, recorded this summer, where I am joined by Phil Japikse to discuss unit testing. This series expands on the 2017 Unit Testing episode.