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How Async/Await Really Works in C#

March 16, 2023 Mar 16, 2023 03/16/23

Stephen Toub - MSFT

Async/await was added to the C# language over a decade ago and has transformed how we write scalable code for .NET. But how does it really work? In this post, we take a deep dive into its internals.

Hack Together: Microsoft Graph and .NET week #2 recap and final week overview

March 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023 03/14/23

Ayca Bas

Join us for Hack Together, our virtual hackathon to learn how to build powerful apps with Microsoft Graph and .NET and win exciting prizes.

Join us for Hack Together: Microsoft Graph and .NET

February 28, 2023 Feb 28, 2023 02/28/23

Waldek Mastykarz

Join us for Hack Together, our virtual hackathon to learn how to build powerful apps with Microsoft Graph and .NET and win exciting prizes.

Update to the .NET language strategy

February 6, 2023 Feb 6, 2023 02/6/23

Kathleen Dollard

Interested in what is going on and the future of .NET languages, (C#, F#, and Visual Basic)? We have just published an updated version of the .NET Language Strategy on our documentation!

C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more!

April 18, 2022 Apr 18, 2022 04/18/22

Kathleen Dollard

C# 11 features are coming along nicely and the most recent release features all sorts of goodies including updates to string literals, pattern matching, checked user-defined operators, and an update on !!.

Early peek at C# 11 features

February 22, 2022 Feb 22, 2022 02/22/22

Kathleen Dollard

Learn about the C# 11 preview features you can try out in Visual Studio 17.1 and .NET SDK 6.0.200!

Welcome to C# 10

November 8, 2021 Nov 8, 2021 11/8/21

Kathleen Dollard

Check out the great new features in C# 10 as part of .NET 6 and Visual Studio 2022, that make your code prettier, more expressive, and faster.

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.

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.