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Update to the .NET language strategy

February 6, 2023 Feb 6, 2023 02/6/23

Kathleen Dollard

Interested in what is going on and the future of .NET languages, (C#, F#, and Visual Basic)? We have just published an updated version of the .NET Language Strategy on our documentation!

C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more!

April 18, 2022 Apr 18, 2022 04/18/22

Kathleen Dollard

C# 11 features are coming along nicely and the most recent release features all sorts of goodies including updates to string literals, pattern matching, checked user-defined operators, and an update on !!.

Early peek at C# 11 features

February 22, 2022 Feb 22, 2022 02/22/22

Kathleen Dollard

Learn about the C# 11 preview features you can try out in Visual Studio 17.1 and .NET SDK 6.0.200!

Welcome to C# 10

November 8, 2021 Nov 8, 2021 11/8/21

Kathleen Dollard

Check out the great new features in C# 10 as part of .NET 6 and Visual Studio 2022, that make your code prettier, more expressive, and faster.

Announcing Open Source C# standardization

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

Bill Wagner

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

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

Isaac Levin

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

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

Richard Lander

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#

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

Xin Shi

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