James' news items from May 2019 .NET Oxford

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 • GitHub Package Registry
  ○ Supporting Maven, RubyGems, npm, NuGet, Docker
 • ML.NET 1.0 GA
 • Intellicode GA
 • Windows Terminal (Slide)
  ○ Cmder, ConEmu
 • .NET Framework 4.8 Shipping
  ○ JIT improvements from .NET Core 2.1 backported
  ○ High DPI Improvements
  ○ .NET Core going forwards
 • .NET Core 3 RC July, GA Sep, LTS in Nov
  ○ C# 8 only in Core 3
  ○ Blazor officially a “thing”
  ○ WinForms and WPF
  ○ Never going to be WebForms or WF (open source)
 • .NET 5,6 and 7 have been announced (2020)
  ○ Yearly cadence
  ○ .NET 5 will unify Mono and .NET Core (driven by AOT)
 • Visual Studio Container Tools Extension
  ○ Show local containers
  ○ Start/Stop
  ○ Search Logs
  ○ Show files/folders
  ○ Open files/folders
  ○ Inspect port mappings and environment variables
 • WSL 2 
  ○ Will take advantage of a full Linux kernel shipping in Windows
  ○ It is a VM, but highly optimised
  ○ Can make system calls and run Docker
 • Remote Development Extensions on Insiders
  ○ Connect local tools to a WSL, Docker Container or SSH environment with full fidelity
 • Cloud Hosted Development Environments
  ○ Fully managed, on-demand from within VS Code
 • Visual Studio Online
  ○ In browser version of VS Code, carrying work spaces etc.
 • Edge with Chromium available to DL.
 • Azure Blockchain Service + Quorum with JP Morgan, Fully Managed Ledger
 • Azure Cosmos DB Notebook Experience (Like Jupyter)
 • AKS Virtual Nodes elastically provision pods in seconds
 • AKS Dev Spaces
 • Azure SQL Serverless
 • Azure DevOps - Unified Pipelines, all YAML, CI+CD
 • Azure Pipelines - better support for K8s
GitHub Enterprise + Visual Studio bundle