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May 14, 2019May 14, 201905/14/19Default implementations in interfaces
With last week’s posts Announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5 and Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 Preview 3, the last major feature of C# 8.0 is now available in preview.
A big impediment to software evolution has been the fact that you couldn’t add new members to a public interface.
February 27, 2019Feb 27, 201902/27/19Starting with Visual Studio 2019 Preview 4, we'll be adjusting how C# versions are treated in .NET tooling. Firstly, we're adding two new Language Version (LangVersion) values: LatestMajor and Preview. Rad the post to see how they stack up with the currently supported list of values.
January 24, 2019Jan 24, 201901/24/19Do more with patterns in C# 8.0
Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 is out! And with it, a couple more C# 8.0 features are ready for you to try. It’s mostly about pattern matching, though I’ll touch on a few other news and changes at the end.
December 5, 2018Dec 5, 201812/5/18Take C# 8.0 for a spin
Yesterday we announced the first preview of both Visual Studio 2019 (Making every developer more productive with Visual Studio 2019) and .NET Core 3.0 (Announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 1 and Open Sourcing Windows Desktop Frameworks).
November 15, 2017Nov 15, 201711/15/17Today we released a prototype of a C# feature called “nullable reference types“, which is intended to help you find and fix most of your null-related bugs before they blow up at runtime.
We would love for you to install the prototype and try it out on your code!
November 15, 2017Nov 15, 201711/15/17C# 7.2 is the latest point release of C#, and adds a number of small but useful features.
All the features are described in wonderful detail in the docs. Start with the overview, What’s new in C# 7.2, which gives you an excellent introduction to the new set of capabilities.
October 31, 2017Oct 31, 201710/31/17With C# we have always tended towards major releases: bundle a lot of features up, and release less frequently. We even went so far as routinely omitting the traditional “.0” when we talked about C# 6.0!
In the C# 7.0 “wave”
March 8, 2017Mar 8, 201703/8/17Previous posts:
On .NET with Eric Mellino, Happy Birthday from Scott Hunter, OzCode.
On .NET with Beth Massi, NeinLinq.
On .NET with Phil Haack, Readline.
Visual Studio 2017, .NET Core SDK 1.0, F# 4.1
Yesterday, we had a big product launch!
February 1, 2017Feb 1, 201702/1/17The .NET Language Strategy
I am constantly aware of the enormous impact our language investments have on so many people’s daily lives. Our languages are a huge strength of the .NET platform, and a primary factor in people choosing to bet on it –
December 13, 2016Dec 13, 201612/13/16Today, we are releasing a new set of reliability and quality updates for .NET Core 1.0. This month’s update is our second Long Term Support (LTS) update and includes updated versions of multiple packages in .NET Core, ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core.
