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September 3, 2019Sep 3, 201909/3/19Several 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).
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 –
