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Sneak peek at C# 8

September 11, 2017 __Sander C#

Mads Torgersen demonstrated the first four features for C# 8 in a recent Channel 9 video. C# 7 was shipped in March 2017 and version 7.1 was released in August 2017. The three languages features that were introduced in 7.1[…]

Building Azure Functions in C# with Visual Studio Code

July 12, 2017 __Sander Azure, C#, Visual Studio

Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that enables you to run code on-demand without having to explicitly provision or manage infrastructure. This means that you can use Azure Functions to run a script or piece of code in response[…]

Pattern matching in C# 7

July 2, 2017 __Sander C#

The notion of patterns was introduced in C# version 7.0 and has taken ideas from functional programming to simplify and reduce your code. The concept is used in situations where we need to test that a value has a certain[…]

C# 7 features to power the developer

May 29, 2017 __Sander C#

Visual Studio 2017 and C# 7 were officially released earlier this year, so it’s about time to discuss the new version of the language. The seventh version of C# continues the trend started by its predecessor. This trend is all[…]

Trying out C# 7.0

November 28, 2016 __Sander C#

C# 7.0 has a number of new features to simplify code and increase performance. A nice new feature is types, which make it easy to have multiple results. Another is pattern matching, which simplifies code that is conditional base on[…]