Current trend is to manage application configuration and secrets in cloud. Azure Key Vault provider, a cloud based service which aptly suited to maintain and load .Net Core application secrets

.Net Core provided a completely new way to define application configuration values. It supports multiple configuration providers and sources like Key Vault, JSON files, environment variables, XML or any custom data source

.Net Core provides implementation libraries for various IoT devices and scenarios. These libraries provide support for various boards like Raspberry Pi and Hummingboard.

Internet of Things (IoT) is slowly ubiquitous topic where billions of smaller devices are connected to the internet collecting and sharing all kinds of data like sensor data

Visual Studio Code is a wonderful general purpose IDE with loads of extensions. VS Code tips and tricks goes a long way in improving developer productivity

ASP.NET Core 3.0 fully supports SPA web applications with client side frameworks like Angular and React. ASP.Net Core provides corresponding SPA middleware and lets you integrate SPA framework into .NET project.

Microsoft announced .NET Core 3.0, ASP.NET, EF Core 3.0, C# 8, F# 4.7 and several new features for the .NET ecosystem as part of .NET Conf 2019

EF Core is cross platform version of popular Entity Framework technology. Applications built on full Entity Framework needs some work to port to EF Core

Major release EF Core 3.0 offers ton of features like Cosmos DB provider, efficient query generation, overhauled LINQ provider and supports C# 8.0 idioms

Before the advent of Entity framework code-first approach, lot of applications relied on Entity Framework EDMX designer-first approach to model their database entities. With emphasis on code-first approach gained popularity, EDMX style models lost appeal. In EF Core too, there is NO support for EDMX generation.