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The future of .NET Standard

September 15, 2020 Sep 15, 2020 09/15/20
Immo Landwerth
Since .NET 5 was announced, many of you have asked what this means for .NET Standard and whether it will still be relevant. In this post, I'm going to explain how .NET 5 improves code sharing and replaces .NET Standard. I'll also cover the cases where you still need .NET Standard.

Introducing the Half type!

August 31, 2020 Aug 31, 2020 08/31/20
Prashanth Govindarajan
The specification defines many floating point types, including: , , and . Most developers are familiar with (equivalent to in C#) and (equivalent to in C#). They provide a standard format to represent a wide range of values with a precision acceptable for many applications. .NET has always had and and with .NET 5 Preview 7, we've added...