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DevNation Deep Dives

1-hour LIVE events that take a deep dive into the fundamentals of developer technology. Each course comes with live code and commands, and live chat Q&A with verbal responses from the presenters. 

Explore C# 8
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Some more C# 8

Tom Deseyn

In the final articles of this series, explore C# 8's new static local functions, indices and ranges, and using declarations.

C# 8 nullable reference types
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C# 8 nullable reference types

Tom Deseyn

Explore how C# 8 lets us express whether a variable shouldn’t be null, and when it can be null.

C# 8 default interface methods
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C# 8 default interface methods

Tom Deseyn

Explore how C# 8 allows developers to extend an interface and provide a default implementation, then check out the rest of this C# 8 series.

Pattern matching
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C# 8 pattern matching

Tom Deseyn

We explore C# 8's extended pattern matching support and compare it to pattern matching in C# 7.

Asynchronous streams
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C# 8 asynchronous streams

Tom Deseyn

Explore the new C# 8 asynchronous streams feature in this first article in our series covering the new features available in C# 8.

No-Cost RHEL Developer Subscription now available
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.NET Core on Red Hat platforms

Tom Deseyn

We look at the various ways .NET Core is made available on Red Hat platforms, starting with an overview of the available platforms, and then showing how to install .NET Core on each of them.

.NET Core event tracing
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Tracing .NET Core applications

Tom Deseyn

Tom Deseyn shows how you can capture events from the .NET Core runtime and BCL using EventListener, dotnet-trace, and EventPipe environment variables.

.NET Process
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The .NET Process class on Linux

Tom Deseyn

We'll go over the basics of the .NET process class in .NET Core 3.0 and cover a few differences in usage between Windows and Linux.

.NET Core
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New features in .NET Core 3.0 on Linux

Tom Deseyn

We look at new features of .NET Core for Linux, including improved performance and support for building Windows desktop applications.

.NET Core
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Using .NET PInvoke for Linux system functions

Tom Deseyn

.NET Platform Invoke (PInvoke) makes it easy to consume native libraries. This article describes how to use PInvoke for Linux system functions.

.NET Core
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Using a local NuGet server with Red Hat OpenShift

Tom Deseyn

How to deploy a NuGet server as a caching server on Red Hat OpenShift to speed up builds and host private packages. It also explains some general NuGet concepts and why it makes sense to use a local NuGet server.

.NET Core
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Building .NET Core container images using S2I

Tom Deseyn

This article describes how to build .NET Core container images using source-to-image (S2I). The container images can be built directly from a git repository, from local sources, or from a pre-built application on, which can be useful on your development machine or as part of a CI/CD pipeline.

.NET Core
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Announcing .NET Core 2.2 for Red Hat Platforms

Bob Davis

We are very excited to announce the general availability of .NET Core 2.2 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift platforms! This general availability is in lock-step with Microsoft's release yesterday. .NET Core is the open-source, cross-platform .NET platform for building microservices . .NET Core is designed to provide the best performance at scale for applications that use microservices and containers . Libraries can be shared with other .NET platforms, such as .NET Framework (Windows) and Xamarin (mobile applications). With...