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Understanding the cost of C# delegates
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
.NET 6 is chock-full of exciting performance improvements.
.NET Core 2.1 container images will be deleted from Docker Hub
Starting on August 21st, .NET Core 2.1 Docker container images will no longer be available on Docker Hub, but exclusively on Microsoft Container Registry (MCR). Read on for more information.
Introducing DevOps-friendly EF Core Migration Bundles
EF Core's new migration bundles generate binary artifacts that you can use to deploy schema and data changes as part of your continuous delivery process.
Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 7
.NET MAUI Preview 7 is now available with new layouts, improved accessibility, font scaling, and more.
Preview Features in .NET 6 – Generic Math
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
Text processing is at the heart of huge numbers of apps and services, and in .NET, that means lots and lots of . 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 's constructors, or , or overrides, or helper methods on like or or or , APIs to create strings are ubiquitous. One of the most powerful APIs for creating strings in .NET, however, is . The method has a multitude of overloads, all of which share in common the ability to supply a "composite format string" and associated arguments...
ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Preview 7
.NET 6 Preview 7 is now available! Check out all the improvements in ASP.NET Core in this update.
Announcing .NET 6 Preview 7
.NET 6 Preview 7 is now available.