.NET Framework

How to Convince Your Management to Upgrade to Visual Studio 2017 for C# and C++ Developers

Kasey Uhlenhuth July 31, 2018 Jul 31, 2018 07/31/18

Visual Studio 2017 is our best IDE yet. To help you write great code, it’s packed with new Refactorings and Quick Actions, and offers unit testing, debugging, navigation, and code style improvements. It loads solutions faster than ever, and ships with C# 7.3 and the MSVC compiler toolset that conforms to the latest C++ standards.

The .NET Journey: Recapping the last year

Visual Studio Blog December 10, 2015 Dec 10, 2015 12/10/15

Having just completed Connect(); // 2015, we thought to take a moment to review everything that’s happened with .NET over the last year, between last year's and this year's Connect();. And what a year it’s been! We’ve seen significant developments in the .NET Framework, including the release of new versions, and also the ...

Visual Studio Update 1 RTM

Visual Studio Blog November 30, 2015 Nov 30, 2015 11/30/15

Today we’re releasing Visual Studio 2015 Update 1. Let me be the first to thank everyone who installed these earlier releases, provided feedback, and helped us iron out the kinks. [The final release of Team Foundation Server Update 1 is also available today, which you can read about on Brian Harry's blog.] I’ve already shared...

Top News for September 2015

Visual Studio Blog October 27, 2015 Oct 27, 2015 10/27/15

Hello everyone! Every month we share some top stories from the previous month, and here’s our round-up for September. Open-source, cross-platform MSBuild: Continuing the open-source, cross-platform .NET story that is already well underway with .NET Core and the .NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”), MSBuild is joining the fun as ...

IntelliTest for .NET – Test More with Less (effort)

Visual Studio Blog September 30, 2015 Sep 30, 2015 09/30/15

Writing a suit of unit tests that exhaustively exercise and validate the logic of the code under test is not easy. It can even be considered too expensive to do at all. Fortunately, the IntelliTest feature shipping in the Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise Edition addresses both concerns: it helps you achieve high code coverage at a fraction of the...

Covariance and Contravariance FAQ

Visual Studio Blog February 16, 2010 Feb 16, 2010 02/16/10

In this post I’ll try to answer the most common questions I find on forums and in documentation feedback about C# covariance and contravariance. It’s a big topic for a single blog post, so expect to see a lot of “more information” links. Special thanks to Eric Lippert and Chris Burrows for reviewing and providing ...

Getting Information About Objects, Types, and Members with Expression Trees

Visual Studio Blog January 6, 2010 Jan 6, 2010 01/6/10

Starting with C# 3.0 and Visual Studio 2008, you can use expression trees to get information about objects, types, and members. In this post I’m going to show some examples and explain what benefits you can get by using this technique. If you are not familiar with expression trees, I would recommend reading Charlie Calvert’s blog ...

Debugging Expression Trees in Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio Blog November 19, 2009 Nov 19, 2009 11/19/09

First of all, let’s take a look at the example from one of my previous posts. It creates an expression tree for calculating the factorial of a number. Now, what if you want to see the content of this tree in debug mode? You can try lambda.ToString() but it’s not very informative. All you get is this: value => {var result; … }. ...

Dynamic in C# 4.0: Creating Wrappers with DynamicObject

Visual Studio Blog October 19, 2009 Oct 19, 2009 10/19/09

In the previous post I showed how you can use the new dynamic feature and the ExpandoObject class to add and remove properties at run time, and how this can make your code more readable and flexible than code written with LINQ to XML syntax. But there were some obvious flaws in that example: While ExpandoObject provided better syntax, LINQ to...

Dynamic in C# 4.0: Introducing the ExpandoObject

Visual Studio Blog September 30, 2009 Sep 30, 2009 09/30/09

You have probably already heard about the new dynamic feature in C# 4.0 and how it is used to support COM interop. If you haven't, I strongly recommend reading the following MSDN articles: Using Type dynamic and How to: Access Office Interop Objects by Using Visual C# 2010 Features. Well, where else can you use this new feature? What are the ...

Visual Studio Blog

.NET Framework - Visual Studio Blog