Kathleen Dollard, Author at .NET Blog

Kathleen Dollard Principal Program Manager, .NET: Kathleen Dollard loves to code and loves to teach and talk about code. She’s written tons of articles, a book, and spoken around the world. She’s on the .NET Team at Microsoft where she works on the .NET Core CLI and SDK and managed languages (C# and Visual Basic.NET). She’s always ready to help developers take the next step in exploring the wonderful world we call code.

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Announcing C# 12

November 14th, 2023

Announcing the official release of C# 12, including collection expressions, primary constructors, and more!

New C# 12 preview features

July 11th, 2023

.NET 8 Preview 6 adds three new features for C# 12: interceptors, inline arrays, and enhancements to the nameof expression.

Check out new C# 12 preview features!

April 11th, 2023

The first set of C# 12 features are here in preview including primary constructors, using aliases, and lambda expression parameters.

Update to the .NET language strategy

February 6th, 2023

Interested in what is going on and the future of .NET languages, (C#, F#, and Visual Basic)? We have just published an updated version of the .NET Language Strategy on our documentation!

C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more!

April 18th, 2022

C# 11 features are coming along nicely and the most recent release features all sorts of goodies including updates to string literals, pattern matching, checked user-defined operators, and an update on !!.