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Understanding the cost of C# delegates

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

Paulo Morgado

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

August 17, 2021 Aug 17, 2021 08/17/21

Stephen Toub - MSFT

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

Preview Features in .NET 6 – Generic Math

August 10, 2021 Aug 10, 2021 08/10/21

Tanner Gooding [MSFT]

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

August 10, 2021 Aug 10, 2021 08/10/21

Stephen Toub - MSFT

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

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

Bill Wagner

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

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

Kunal Pathak

Loop alignment improvements in .NET 6

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

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

Isaac Levin

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

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

Maria Naggaga

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.