Visual C#

Announcing Open Source C# standardization

Bill Wagner April 5, 2021 Apr 5, 2021 04/5/21

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

Isaac Levin March 17, 2021 Mar 17, 2021 03/17/21

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.

Blinking LEDs with Raspberry Pi

Richard Lander March 10, 2021 Mar 10, 2021 03/10/21

You can blink lots of LEDs with the Raspberry Pi, with a new set of LED blinking APIs.

Infer#: Interprocedural Memory Safety Analysis For C#

Xin Shi December 8, 2020 Dec 8, 2020 12/8/20

We are excited to announce the public release of Infer#, which brings the interprocedural static analysis capabilities of Infer to the .NET community.

[Guest Post] Introducing WaveEngine 3.1 based on .NET 5

Javier Ferrero November 30, 2020 Nov 30, 2020 11/30/20

Start creating multi-platform 3D apps based on .NET 5 today.

Hardware Intrinsics in .NET Core

Tanner Gooding [MSFT] September 3, 2019 Sep 3, 2019 09/3/19

Several years ago, we decided that it was time to support SIMD code in .NET. We introduced the System.Numerics namespace with Vector2, Vector3, Vector4, Vector<T>, and related types. These types expose a general-purpose API for creating, accessing, and operating on them using hardware vector instructions (when available). They also ...

Default implementations in interfaces

Mads Torgersen May 14, 2019 May 14, 2019 05/14/19

Default 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. You would break ...

An update to C# versions and C# tooling

Phillip Carter February 27, 2019 Feb 27, 2019 02/27/19

Starting 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.

Do more with patterns in C# 8.0

Mads Torgersen January 24, 2019 Jan 24, 2019 01/24/19

Do 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. More patterns in more places When C# 7.0 introduced pattern matching we said that we expected to add more ...

Take C# 8.0 for a spin

Mads Torgersen December 5, 2018 Dec 5, 2018 12/5/18

Take 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). One of the exciting aspects of that is that you get to play with some of the features ...

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