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Top 10 C# Recent Improvements
June 3, 2024 7 minutes read Over the years, in collaboration with the community, the C# team has introduced numerous impressive new syntax features. Some of these simplify coding and...
C# Discriminated Union: What’s Driving the C# Community’s Inquiries?
May 16, 2024 6 minutes read In recent years, there has been a notable surge in inquiries from the C# community regarding language-level support for C# Discriminated Unions. What individuals...
The .NET Generic Math Library
May 15, 2024 7 minutes read In November 2022 with the release of .NET 7, new math-related generic interfaces have been added to the .NET Base Class Library (BCL). This...
C# static abstract members
May 14, 2024 5 minutes read C# 11 proposed interface members declared as static abstract. This is useful to handle both: Polymorphism at the type level, for example when abstracting...
The .NET 7.0 IParsable<TSelf> interface
May 7, 2024 3 minutes read As I explained in the post C# 11 static abstract members, C# 11 let’s write static abstract members in an interface. This feature was...
Interview of our Team Lead Patrick Smacchia at WebsitePlanet
May 6, 2024 1 minutes read Here is an interview of our Team Lead Patrick Smacchia at WebsitePlanet, enjoy 🙂
Covariance and Contravariance in C# Explained
May 2, 2024 6 minutes read Introduction Covariance and contravariance allow more flexibility when dealing with C# class hierarchy. This article explains and demonstrates the concepts of Covariance and Contravariance...
C# 12 New Features
April 26, 2024 5 minutes read C# 12 along with .NET 8 has been officially released in November 2023. Let’s explore C# 12 New Features in this post. Primary Constructors...
.NET 8 Top 10 New Features
April 24, 2024 7 minutes read .NET 8 has been officially released in November 2023. You can download it here. Designated as an LTS (Long Term Support) version, it guarantees...
Deconstruction in C#
April 24, 2024 2 minutes read C# 7.0 introduced the deconstruction syntax. It allows developers to extract in a single expression, properties of an object or elements of a tuple...
Will Visual Studio Be Migrated to .NET Core and Become Multi-Platform?
April 22, 2024 7 minutes read I came across comments on a recent Reddit post and thought it would be intriguing to analyze the DLLs of Visual Studio 2022 (version...
The .editorconfig files for .NET developers
March 29, 2024 4 minutes read In software development, ensuring uniform coding styles across different editors and IDEs is challenging. .editorconfig files offer a universal solution to this problem, transcending...
Reporting Roslyn Analyzers
March 26, 2024 4 minutes read Introduction Roslyn Analyzers offer significant value to .NET developers. They identify code issues and vulnerabilities and inform developers about necessary fixes directly in the...
High .NET Code Maintainability: A Case Study
February 13, 2024 8 minutes read High .NET Code Maintainability is the key to achieve both happy management and happy developers: Maintainability lets a product evolve naturally at a sustained...
Improve Visual Studio Build Performance
August 11, 2023 7 minutes read Time is your most precious asset and slow build is high in the list of developer’s productivity killers. With slow build the penalty is...
Improved .NET Debugging Experience with Source Link
June 20, 2023 3 minutes read Source Link is a Microsoft technology that lets .NET developers debug the source code of NuGet packages referenced by their applications. I underlined source...
.NET Micro-Optimization and Refactoring Trick
May 31, 2023 3 minutes read Recently, I made an interesting observation regarding Dictionary<string,T>: the method TryGetValue() is faster when building with new Dictionary<string,T>(StringComparer.Ordinal). This performance difference can be attributed...
C#12 class and struct Primary Constructors
April 13, 2023 3 minutes read Since C#9 we have the convenient primary constructor syntax for class record (or just record) and struct record: [crayon-6a27278ce836d366515569/] C#12 introduces primary constructor for...
.NET Build Improvement: Stop Wasting Resources
February 4, 2023 5 minutes read I am working on .NET development full-time since 2002 and there is a point that still annoys me after all these years: the default...
The NDepend GitHub Action is now available!
January 25, 2023 3 minutes read NDepend is a tool for .NET developers and teams that assesses the code quality within the IDE and the CI-CD process. With 17 years...
C# 11 required members
November 15, 2022 3 minutes read C# 11 proposes the new keyword required that can apply to an instance property or an instance field declaration within a class, a record...
C# 11 File Scoped Types
October 27, 2022 4 minutes read C#11 added the file scoped types feature: a new file modifier that can be applied to any type definition to restrict its usage to...
Managed pointers, Span, ref struct, C#11 ref fields and the scoped keyword
October 25, 2022 9 minutes read The concept of managed pointer exists in the NET runtime and C# since the inception of the platform in the early 2000. Managed pointers...
C# 11 Raw String Literals Explained
August 25, 2022 3 minutes read C# 11 introduces Raw String Literals. Undoubtedly this feature will become very popular because it represents an elegant way to solve some issues with...
Visual Studio vs. Jetbrains Rider Performance
June 28, 2022 5 minutes read I work daily with Visual Studio since 1997 but still use Rider from time to time to keep up with progresses since we plan...
WPF / Winforms UI Refactoring: A Case Study
May 11, 2022 4 minutes read WPF and Winforms are still so massively used that Microsoft fully supports those technologies in .NET Core, .NET 5, 6 , 7 and so...
How to collect return values from Parallel.ForEach?
January 26, 2022 1 minutes read Today I took 10 minutes to answer the 9 years old stackoverflow’s question: How do I collect return values from Parallel.ForEach? I though the...
C# Binary Search: Fast find of a free slot between 0 and uint.MaxValue
January 3, 2022 2 minutes read When a user is exporting a result to a document with NDepend, the tool needs to find a file name not taken in the...
Solution to Visual Studio 2022 messing up Visual Studio 2019
November 10, 2021 3 minutes read As all .NET developers I am quite excited by Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6 going RTM. However I noticed that Visual Studio 2022...
5x Lessons Learned from Migrating a Large Legacy to .NET Core
October 26, 2021 9 minutes read In January 2020 I wrote the post Not planning now to migrate your .NET 4.8 legacy, is certainly a mistake. Hopefully we followed our...