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The .NET Core 2 Road Map with Scott Hunter

What is coming up for .NET Core? Carl and Richard talk to Scott Hunter, who leads all of .NET at Microsoft, about the road ahead for .NET Core. But first, a quick look back at where .NET has come from, including a discussion around performance and the impact of the Meltdown and Spectre CPU security flaws impacting performance across the board. Then into a huge raft of features coming up in the next year in .NET Core, including compilation and performance enhancements, as well as some old favorites like lazy loading in EF Core and SignalR!

Guests:

Scott Hunter

Scott Hunter is the Director of Program Management on the .NET team at Microsoft. His team builds .NET Framework, .NET Core, ASP.NET, Entity Framework, the Managed Languages, Web and .NET Tooling.

Links:

• PWA Builder https://www.pwabuilder.com/generator
• .NET Downloads https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/windows
• TechEmpower Benchmarks https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
• .NET Standard https://github.com/dotnet/standard
• Orchard CMS https://orchardproject.net/
• EntityFramework Core https://github.com/aspnet/EntityFrameworkCore
• Span of T https://github.com/dotnet/corefxlab/blob/master/docs/specs/span.md
• Kestrel https://github.com/aspnet/KestrelHttpServer
• Windows Compatibility Pack https://github.com/dotnet/designs/blob/master/accepted/compat-pack/compat-pack.md
• Polly https://github.com/App-vNext/Polly
• SignalR https://github.com/aspnet/SignalR
• GDPR https://gdpr-info.eu/
• Precompilation of Razor https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/mvc/views/view-compilation?tabs=aspnetcore2x
• WebHooks https://github.com/aspnet/WebHooks
• CosmosDB .NET SDK https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/sql-api-sdk-dotnet