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New .NET 6 APIs driven by the developer community

David Fowler August 23, 2021 Aug 23, 2021 08/23/21

.NET 6 is on the way, and I wanted to share some of my favorite new APIs that you are going to love.

Understanding the cost of C# delegates

Paulo Morgado August 18, 2021 Aug 18, 2021 08/18/21

Delegates are widely used in C# (and .NET, in general), but it's not always obvious to the developer what code they write ends up generating. In this post, I'll show the various forms to make you aware of their costs.

Performance Improvements in .NET 6

Stephen Toub - MSFT August 17, 2021 Aug 17, 2021 08/17/21

.NET 6 is chock-full of exciting performance improvements.

Preview Features in .NET 6 – Generic Math

Tanner Gooding [MSFT] August 10, 2021 Aug 10, 2021 08/10/21

If you’ve ever wanted to use operators with generic types or thought that interfaces could be improved by supporting the ability to define static methods as part of their contract, then this blog post is for you. With .NET 6 we will be shipping a preview of the new generic math and static abstracts in interfaces features.

String Interpolation in C# 10 and .NET 6

Stephen Toub - MSFT August 10, 2021 Aug 10, 2021 08/10/21

Text processing is at the heart of huge numbers of apps and services, and in .NET, that means lots and lots of System.String. String creation is so fundamental that a myriad of ways of creating them have existed since .NET Framework 1.0 was released, and more have joined the fray since. Whether via String's constructors, or StringBuilder, or ...

Announcing Open Source C# standardization

Bill Wagner April 5, 2021 Apr 5, 2021 04/5/21

The C# standards committee moved its work into Open Source. ECMA worked with the .NET Foundation, enabling C# developers worldwide to participate in the standardization effort. Visit the C# standards repo for more information.

Loop alignment in .NET 6

Kunal Pathak March 25, 2021 Mar 25, 2021 03/25/21

Loop alignment improvements in .NET 6

The path to .NET 5 and Blazor WebAssembly with some fun sprinkled in

Isaac Levin March 17, 2021 Mar 17, 2021 03/17/21

Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock was recently upgraded to .NET 5 and uses Blazor WebAssembly. Here is a summary of our experience completing the upgrade.

.NET Interactive with SQL!| .NET Notebooks in Visual Studio Code

Maria Naggaga March 4, 2021 Mar 4, 2021 03/4/21

Read all about how SQL and Entity Framework Core developers can now start using .NET Interactive notebooks for quick iteration of notebooks while providing strongly typed APIs, code completion over tables and columns, and Language-Integrated-Query (LINQ). Quickly explore your data's shape and schema.

Announcing Entity Framework Core 6.0 Preview 1

Jeremy Likness February 17, 2021 Feb 17, 2021 02/17/21

Announcing the release of EF Core 6.0 Preview 1, the first preview of the new Entity Framework Core.

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