As you might know, a new major release of .NET comes out every year. Even .NET releases like .NET 8 and .NET 10 are so-called long term support (LTS) versions, and odd .NET releases like .NET 7 and .NET 9 are short term support (STS) versions.
You might ask yourself when you should switch to a new version. Let's clarify this.
(more…)In the previous blog posts about C# 14 you learned about
In this blog post, you will learn about another C# 14 feature: The null-conditional assignment.
(more…)In the last post about C# 14, you learned about Extension Members. In this post you will learn about the new field keyword of C# 14. I was already dreaming about it in the year 2008, and I blogged about my dream of half-automated properties. With C# 14, this dream has now come true. So, let's look at this new feature.
.NET 10 is around the corner. One of the super cool new features of .NET 10 is that you can run standalone C# files directly without creating a project.
(more…)In the last blog posts about WPF in .NET 9.0, you learned about Windows 11 Theming and about the Accent Color. In this blog post, let's look at a smaller feature called hyphen-based ligatures.
(more…)In the last blog post about WPF in .NET 9.0, you learned about Windows 11 Theming. In this blog post, let's take a look at another feature of WPF in .NET 9.0: The Accent Color.
(more…)The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a Desktop UI Framework that is part of .NET. Microsoft uses it to build Visual Studio. WPF got some nice new features with .NET 9:
In a little series of blog posts, let's take a look at these features. Let's start in this blog post with Windows 11 Theming.
(more…)In the previous blog posts of the C# 12 series you learned about different C# 12 features:
In this blog post, you will learn about another C# 12 feature: The Experimental Attribute.
(more…)In the previous blog posts of this C# 12 series you learned about different C# 12 features:
In this blog post, you will learn about another feature: Default Parameters in Lamdba Expressions.
(more…)In the previous blog posts of this C# 12 series you learned about different C# 12 features:
In this blog post, let's look at another new feature that allows you to alias any type with a using directive. Before we dive in, let's ensure that you understand how you could already alias namespaces and types before C# 12.
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