Bing runs one of the world’s largest, most complex, highly performant, and reliable .NET applications. This posts discusses the journey and the work required to upgrade to .NET 5. This migration has been an unqualified success for our team. The overall picture is clear that .NET 5 is phenomenally superior.
Loop alignment improvements in .NET 6
What's next for System.Text.Json?
things library folks wanted at the time. In 5.0 I got requests from folks to monitor more things about the GC. Instead of adding a bit of info each time someone asks, I really thought about the kinds of things that would help with monitoring and diagnostics and expanded the info provided by this API significantly. It also has a new overload, docume...
ARM64 performance work in .NET 5
Introduction to the new Analysis Level feature shipping in .NET 5 Preview 8
Explore many performance improvements, big and small, that have gone into the .NET 5 runtime and core libraries to make apps and services leaner and faster.
The async/await feature in C# has revolutionized how developers targeting .NET write asynchronous code. Sprinkle some and around, change some return types to be tasks, and badda bing badda boom, you've got an asynchronous implementation. In theory. In practice, obviously I've exaggerated the ease with which a codebase can be made fully asynchron...
.NET added / to the languages and libraries over seven years ago. In that time, it's caught on like wildfire, not only across the .NET ecosystem, but also being replicated in a myriad of other languages and frameworks. It's also seen a ton of improvements in .NET, in terms of additional language constructs that utilize asynchrony, APIs offering asy...
"Producer/consumer" problems are everywhere, in all facets of our lives. A line cook at a fast food restaurant, slicing tomatoes that are handed off to another cook to assemble a burger, which is handed off to a register worker to fulfill your order, which you happily gobble down. Postal drivers delivering mail all along their routes, and you eithe...
