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Introducing the Half type!

August 31, 2020 Aug 31, 2020 08/31/20
Prashanth Govindarajan
The specification defines many floating point types, including: , , and . Most developers are familiar with (equivalent to in C#) and (equivalent to in C#). They provide a standard format to represent a wide range of values with a precision acceptable for many applications. .NET has always had and and with .NET 5 Preview 7, we've added...

New C# Source Generator Samples

August 25, 2020 Aug 25, 2020 08/25/20
Luca Bolognese
This post describes two new generators that we added to the samples project in the Roslyn SDK github repo. The first generator gives you strongly typed access to CSV data. The second one creates string constants based on Mustache specifications.

Announcing Entity Framework Core EF Core 5.0 Preview 7

July 21, 2020 Jul 21, 2020 07/21/20
Jeremy Likness
Today, the Entity Framework Core team announces the seventh preview release of EF Core 5.0. This release includes a factory to create instances, the ability to reset state, Cosmos DB improvements including enhanced support for configuration options and partition keys, and much more. In this post To summarize: EF Core 5.0 runs ...