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Upcoming Events and Meetups

Aug 20

Toronto Mobile .NET Developers Group

Need help setting up your Xamarin development machine? We can help! Get ready for Xamarin Saturday with hands-on assistance from the community and BSI Labs!

Aug 20

Developers-BR

Neste meetup as palestrantes irão abordar sobre os desafios da mulher no mercado de tecnologia. As talks serão as seguintes: 19:00 - 19:30 - Welcome Coffee 1a. Palestra:

Aug 20

Greenville Spartanburg Developers' Guild

React Native and Progressive Web Apps are 2 ways to build applications that behave like native apps on a mobile device. This month we will have a double-header.

Aug 20

.NET DC User Group

Our Agenda: • 6:00pm - 6:30pm: Food & networking • 6:30pm - 8:00pm: Our featured speaker As the world eagerly awaits (pun intended) the release of .NET Core 3.0,

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Interacting with native libraries in .NET Core 3.0

NativeLibrary is a new class in .NET Core 3.0 for interacting with native libraries. In this article,

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.NET Core 3.0, MSIX and The Windows Store with James Montemagno

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Dew Drop – September 6, 2019 (#3025)

Top Links Are C# Developers Disappearing? (Stack Overflow 2020 Survey) (Sasha Krsmanovic) ASP.NET Core gRPC and WPF on .

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Episode 295 - Azure Backup Update

Azure Backup PM Geetha Lakshmi gives us a great update on the Backup Service.

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The Morning Brew #2825

Software Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 9 and Entity Framework 6.

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