If you have developed a cross-platform application before, you might have encountered a situation where different platforms still have different performance despite using a cross-platform solution. And this post will discuss a situation where the result of getting the Time Zone data are different on different platforms in .NET Core.

Get Time Zone Data on the Windows platform

Firstly, let’s create a new .NET Core console app on the Windows platform. In this case, I will take New Zealand Time as an example.

using System;namespace DotNETTips
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var dateTime = DateTime.UtcNow;
            Console.WriteLine($"dateTime in UTC : {dateTime}"); var nzTzInfo…

As a Unity/Azure developer, I’m very excited to see Microsoft announced their brand-new Microsoft Mesh platform at the Ignite conference.

The Ignite keynote was created and delivered in AltspaceVR and powered by experiences built using early Mesh tools. And they released the Microsoft Mesh preview application for HoloLens 2 quickly, so the HoloLens 2 users can experience the app powered by the Mesh platform now.

However, as a developer, I’m keen to know more about this interesting platform from a developer’s perspective. So the following are the information I collected and some idea I want to share with you.

Why Microsoft Mesh?

So…

Azure Functions is an event-driven serverless compute service available on Microsoft Azure Cloud. You can create a new Azure Functions app very easily in your IDE such as Visual Studio 2019, Visual Studio Code, Rider, etc. Cos I’m using Rider on my Mac, so I create a new Azure Functions solution and add a new function to the solution in Rider.

Microsoft Azure Cloud platform provides multiple ways to the developers to manage the storage account on Azure. You can use a user-friendly GUI tool called Storage Explorer to manage your storage account, you can write a script via Azure CLI or PowerShell to manage it, you can write code to operate it, and you can use a command-line utility called AzCopy to copy blobs or files to or from a storage account. I will show these different approaches to manage your Azure storage account.

# 1 Using The Azure Storage Explorer Tool

The first and I think the easiest and most intuitive way is to use the Azure…

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I recently discovered a small bug related to the surface shader in Unity. You can see the rendering artifact shown below.

“Now is the time for unity” BY ANTÓNIO GUTERRES

Why Detect Viral Pneumonia, Bacterial Pneumonia With AI?

The world has changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Medical staff around the world have shown bravery and resilience in the fight against COVID-19, and some even sacrificed their lives while performing their duties. As an ordinary person, as a programmer, I also want to help. Therefore, using AI to try to help diagnose lung diseases, such as viral pneumonia, bacterial pneumonia, is an idea that I am interested in trying.

I am an advocate of Azure and Unity, so my first thought was to use Azure and Unity…

In recent years, AR technology has developed rapidly. Following the release of the amazing ARKit 3 last year, this year Apple released ARKit 4 on WWDC 2020. And Unity also has expanded its AR Foundation to add these new features from ARKit 3.5 and ARKit 4 quickly. With the development of AR technology, more and more developers use Unity’s AR Foundation to develop AR applications running on different platforms.