Subtle breaking change when adding DbContextPool Entity Framework Core 6

During the upgrade process of one of our applications from .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 6.0, I stumbled across a very subtle breaking changing when using the AddDbContextPool() feature of EF Core. I thought it might be worthwhile to document this, in case someone else is troubled by it too.

Announcing TextMate grammar community project for Q#

I have recently started a new Q# community repo, aimed at bringing a holistic and structured approach for building up Q# TextMate grammar. TextMate grammars are based on regular expressions from the Oniguruma regex engine and are a de-facto standard for syntax highlighting and tokenization for programming languages. Popular editors such as Visual Studio Code or Sublime Text base their syntax highlighting on such grammars. At the moment, the Q# LSP extension ships with a very basic TextMate grammar only, focused on a handful of keywords and specially designated symbol names only.

Announcing my new Q# and quantum computing book

I am extremely happy to announce that on 7 May 2022, my new book, “Introduction to Quantum Computing with Q# and QDK” has been published by Springer, as part of the excellent Quantum Science and Technology series. From now on, you can also see the book in the sidebar of this website. I am extremely proud of this moment - it is the result of almost 2 years of hard work and countless long nights.

Running .NET 7 apps on WASI on arm64 Mac

WASI stands for WebAssembly System Interface, and allows to run WebAssembly code independently of the browsers, as it provides access to operating system features such as file system access or networking. It is highly experimental, but at the same time a tremendously interesting project, and one that has the potential of contributing to a massive paradigm-shift in the industry, making WebAssembly truly ubiquitous.

The great mad scientist of web things at Microsoft, Steve Sanderson, recently published the first version of an experiemental WASI SDK for .NET, which allows building .NET 7 and ASP.NET Core applications into standalone WASI compliant apps, and running them from WASI hosts. Steve’s repo provides the easy to follow steps to get going on Windows and Linux, in this post I will walk through some additional hoops that one may need to jump on arm64 Macs.

Using an existing Startup class with ASP.NET 6 minimal hosting model

With the .NET Core 2.1 having reached end of life, and the looming end of life dates for .NET 5 (this spring) and .NET Core 3.1 (this fall), a lot of developers are facing migrating their services to .NET 6.0. Depending on the customization level and the sheer scale of your service ecosystem this may be an easy or relatively complicated task - especially if you would like to additionally tap into the new lightweight hosting model around WebApplication type.

A very low-cost, easy approach to this is to take advantage of the fact that one can easily reuse an existing Startup class with the new hosting model too. This allows leaving most of the code intact, and performing only tiny refactorings around the host bootstrapping.

Hello OmniSharp on .NET 6.0!

On December 15, 2021 we released version 1.38.0 of OmniSharp which, for the first time, included .NET 6.0 builds of the OmniSharp server. The related feature branch was maintained for over a year, and previously contained a .NET 5-based variant of OmniSharp, though that one was never released.

This is a big milestone in the OmniSharp project as the .NET 6.0 build is much faster and a lot more stable, and is the first step towards retiring the .NET Framework/Mono builds of OmniSharp.

Q# Advent Calendar 2021 – Partial application in Q#

Recently, as part of Q# Advent Calendar 2021, I published a special quest post on Q# Community blog. You can find my post on “Partial callable application in Q#” on the here. Enjoy!

Difference between R1 and Rz gate in quantum computing

In this post we will have a look at the subtle difference between two single qubit rotation gates - Rz and R1. Q# distinguishes between them, and the are de facto the same, yet differ in a very subtle way.

dotnet-script 1.3 is out with .NET 6.0 support

Last week we released version 1.3 of dotnet-script. The latest release introduces support for .NET 6.0 and C# 10 and is available, as usually, through Github releases and on Nuget. You will need to have at least the .NET SDK 6.0.100 installed.

The related language services in OmniSharp (e.g. C# extension for VS Code) have already been updated accordingly a while ago.

dotnet-script 1.2 is out with assembly isolation feature

Last month we released version 1.2 of dotnet-script. This was already 36th release of the tool and I am proud to say all the dotnet-script releated packages on Nuget have passed 1 million downloads - thanks a lot!

The latest release (which already has a 1.2.1 patch too), contains several useful bug fixes, including a memory leak and one excellent new feature - assembly isolation.

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Hi! I'm Filip W., a cloud architect from Zürich 🇨🇭. I like Toronto Maple Leafs 🇨🇦, Rancid and quantum computing. Oh, and I love the Lowlands 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿.

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My Introduction to Quantum Computing with Q# and QDK book
Microsoft MVP