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The future of .NET Standard

September 15, 2020 Sep 15, 2020 09/15/20
Immo Landwerth
Since .NET 5 was announced, many of you have asked what this means for .NET Standard and whether it will still be relevant. In this post, I'm going to explain how .NET 5 improves code sharing and replaces .NET Standard. I'll also cover the cases where you still need .NET Standard.

Introducing the Half type!

August 31, 2020 Aug 31, 2020 08/31/20
Prashanth Govindarajan
The IEEE 754 specification defines many floating point types, including: binary16, binary32, binary64 and binary128. Most developers are familiar with binary32 (equivalent to float in C#) and binary64 (equivalent to double in C#). They provide a standard format to represent a wide range of values with a precision acceptable for many ...

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 DbContext instances, the ability to reset DbContext state, Cosmos DB improvements including enhanced support for configuration options and partition keys, and much more. In this post To summarize...